Yeah I know that it's sudden, but I'm going to make it a habit to write my Point of View blogs while they're still a little fresh and connect it to some of the other ones I've posted. Anyway, like I said in my last blog, I'm over my oldest sister's house (waiting on breakfast, actually—might as well call it brunch since it's close to 2 in the afternoon) so I can try to see my grandma everyday at the hospital. She is in stable condition, but she's going to be healing up for a long time due to bedsores that she had, making her have an infection in her bloodstream. Speaking of healing, I got some to do myself, because of the rashes.
This Point of View blog is going to be where I left off—rock music lyrics and inspiration.
Point of View 6: Inspiration Intertwined with Rock Lyrics
I love listening to music,especially rock music, and sometimes Broadway music, especially if it's from a musical I love or I have to listen to to get a song I'm using for auditions. I love the new bands, such as Jet Black Stare,to bands that are still recording that I thought weren't around anymore, like Barenaked Ladies, and even the oldies, such as ABBA and the legend Billy Idol. I even love rock bands from both England and Australia, like Coldplay and Silverchair. For me, songs from the musical Avenue Q make me sing aloud in the shower, and songs from Bullet for my Valentine make me filled with rage and energy I need to make it through the day. Weird Al make me dance and keep a smile on my face, while Hoobastank, Yellowcard, Everclear, Quietdrive, and other bands would help me cope with what the world has to offer, and help me heal emotionally so I can heal physically. Being point blank here: Rock music offers me inspiration to write and help my mind create stories,poetry, plays, and ideas for other things to add on to novellas and books in the process. Whether it's 5:33am being an insomniac or getting busy with a paper due at 5 in the afternoon about some theatre thing, music really can put me into perspective with life and whatever society challenges me with. Linkin Park, P.O.D., and Queens of the Stone Age remind me to be real to both myself and as an unique African American woman that wants to entertain the world with her words and loves rock,along with a little rap. Don't get me wrong, I like the other music that's out there, I really do,I just love rock more than any other genre.
With that being said,nobody can say music didn't help shape the world to what it is today, or I would have to hit them in the gut, tie that idiot to a chair, and make them listen to Michael Jackson until they admitted to it (yeah, he's been around for years and has helped changed music to what it is today, even if he is a little loony). From the ancient times to now, music has inspired and has been a tool to evolve the entire world. Hell, if there are other forms of life out in space, there would be music to shape their world too! Without music, this world would be empty because everyone would kill themselves eventually from all the silence in it. It's also like if words didn't exist.
Speaking of words and music, here's the primary reason everyone needs to listen to rock music at least one time in their lives: it's in the lyrics. Lyrics are powerful lines to in music that can really make a song either a number one hit or a flop in the music industry. There's quotes that I can draw inspiration from to keep me writing,and even living. Here's some examples: "Broken" by Everclear is a song that prompt us that even if you feel like you've fucked up so much in life, you'll always be loved because "Love is all you need to fix what's broken" . Barenaked Ladies' song "Falling for the First Time" tells us that "Anything plain can be lovely" and anybody that says that they're perfect is lying. Linkin Park's new single with rapper Busta Rhymes, "We Made It", raps about making it and "fighting every rhyme and tightening up every line" with every song and made it "even though we had our backs against the wall", inspiring everyone else to step up, be patient to be accepted and win the fight, and put all your efforts and energy to whatever you have to accomplish. Ok Go's "Invincible" makes me (and probably others that listen to this song) feel just that, even if I feel defeated by an issue or the entire day, while "Get Over It" gets me to simply move on if I've been grudging over something, whether it's emotional,psychological, or physical, that I don't need to think about it too much. Avenue Q's hit, "I Wish I Could Go Back to College" keeps me remembering how much fun it is to be a college student, and will help me remember all the friends and memories I had at Limestone. Chicago's "Saturday in the Park" has me wanting to just hang out with my friends and maybe even go to a park and act like little kids, rolling down a hill of grass, getting dizzy and going back up the same hill to do it again.
Yeah, whether I download the entire album to listen a few songs from it, or get one so I can get it stuck in my head because it's so fun to sing, I know now why I have a very large music collection right now on my laptop, and all I need is a MP3 Player that I won't tear up and can put hundreds of songs on that I can take with me everywhere I go without carrying my laptop or even more retro (as of now) a CD player, in which I keep dropping and force to break little by little. Speaking of breaks, it's now daybreak (around 7am—7pm in Beijing, China, where the 2008 Summer Olympics are hailed for you people living under boulders and in caves without any knowledge of this—WHO WOULDN'T KNOW THIS BY NOW?!) and, so I bid ya'll adieu with a pair of lyrics and quotes from the song "Warning" by Incubus: " Those left standing will make millions writing books on the way it should have been...Don't ever let life pass you by."
Tickle It!
~Pl Heavymetalgirl: Lover,Writer,and Rocker~