http://grooveshark.com/playlist/Fro+Playlist/77429907
Okay, so I this post is a tad late, but better now than never huh….
Anyway, the playlist that I’ve compiled are 10 songs off the top of my head that I listen to. I only have three playlists on my phone and what I really wanna listen to depends on the situation that I’m in. A good number of the songs in here are house music like “Blitz” and “One” (although I couldn’t find the original mix). I usually listen to house music whenever I’m on the go because there usually aren’t any words and it’s more like background music because I find music with lyrics to be pretty distracting. I really think house music embodies the notion of having fun in life and living while you still can. It’s something that I want to do now because I know that later on in life responsibilities start to pile up and I’ll probably end up regretting everything that I wasn’t able to do as a young adult. Another bunch of these songs are more emotional like “You Found Me”. Sometimes I just really like to listen back to these kind of mainstream songs from a long time ago, because they were popular for a reason and it’s like a whole new experience listening to these songs that I really liked but stopped listening to as the years went by. I usually listen to this kind of music if I’m just feeling really good about something or if I’m feeling out of it (doesn’t really help though haha). I like to revisit the past and pull up old songs that I used to like because sometimes I don’t even know what the song was talking about or it touches on some deep subjects that I didn’t even think about when I used to listen to it. Lastly, over high school I have definitely grown to love and embrace rap music. As a first-generation Asian American, my parents both come from China and have very traditional and reserved personalities and have very stubborn outlooks on life. They believe that rap is just people trying to talk as fast as they can into the mic which honestly can be what rap sounds like to some people but it speaks so much more. The thing that I love about rap music is that there are so many inferences. It’s kinda like when your’e writing, the teacher tells you to show, not tell. I find that in a sense it’s the same for rap music. There are so many references that you have to understand or the song just won’t make sense to you. One word in the song could change the whole idea of the song. It can be interpreted in so many ways, just like people look at the world. I think that the only reason why rap is generally looked down upon is because of its vulgar language. Rap tends to have more profanity but I think it really helps an artist get their message across.
