Music and Writing

2. My favorite song is "If I Were a Boy" by Beyonce. This song has such a strong message about how boys don't treat girls the way she wishes they would. She says "If I were a boy, I think I could understand, how it feels to love a girl, I swear I’d be a better man. I’d listen to her, 'cause I know how it hurts, when you lose the one you wanted 'cause he’s taken you for granted, and everything you had got destroyed". Meaning boy's just treat girls like they don't care, using them and hurting them. I know this isn't true for every man, but it is true for a lot. she also says
If I were a boy
Even just for a day
I’d roll outta bed in the morning
And throw on what I wanted and go
Drink beer with the guys
And chase after girls
I’d kick it with who I wanted
And I’d never get confronted for it.
'Cause they’d stick up for me.
Beyonce's trying to show how men can do things women can't because we get judged or disrespected for it. It's such a strong message about feminism and the social inequality between genders. This song is also really catchy and she has a very pretty voice so i listen to it all the time.

3. My taste in music has changed alot in the last few years. I used to be obsessed with this one band Never Shout Never, just some hippie boy from St. Louis singing with an acoustic guitar. But then I got really into Green Day, Blink-182, and Weezer for a few years. But last year I started listening to the rapper Eminem. I used to hate rap but the way he can write such strong powerful lyrics is incredible to me. He has such an interesting mind that's so complex i really love it. Now i listen to everything like Beyonce, Taylor Swift, The Killers, Eminem, anything that makes me feel something.When you open your mind to different styles of music, its suprising to find how easy it is to love it all.

13. Music is extremely poetic. Even upbeat rap songs have deep meaningful lyrics. Like Eminem's lyrics in Love the Way You Lie
"High off of love, drunk from my hate
It's like I'm huffin' paint and I love it, the more I suffer
I suffocate and right before I'm about to drown, she resuscitates me
She f***ing hates me, and I love it" These lyrics are such a twisted and metophorical way to write about love and how it makes him feel, it's very deep and poetic. There are also slow simple songs like The A Team by Ed Sheeran
"But lately her face seems
Slowly sinking, wasting
Crumbling like pastries
And they scream
The worst things in life come free to us
'Cause we're just under the upper hand
And go mad for a couple grams
And she don't want to go outside tonight
And in a pipe she flies to the Motherland
Or sells love to another man
It's too cold outside
For angels to fly" it's about a young woman addicted to drugs, having to sell herself and live off the streets to make enough money to support her addiction. Normally I wouldn't be interested in reading about such a sad story but with the melody behind it, the song's too pretty to not play. I think music is more "poetic" than just reading poems off a paper because words are more powerful when they're catchy, easy to remember.

11. Music heals people all the time. It's like having someone else explain how you're feeling in words you can't come up with. I think people like knowing that others are going through the same thing they are, it's comforting.