A friend of mine - let's call her "Cole" - was exchanging music with a guy. They were hanging out in the common room, looking at each others' iTunes libraries, when he told her,
"Your music fills the holes in mine."
Now, maybe it's just my romantic heart (but seriously I doubt it, because by and large I do not have an overly romantic heart), but I think that that is beautiful.
When you think about it, music is such a personal thing. Old mix CDs are like memories etched on rainbowy disks and songs are like old friends that you can visit whenever you want. Some days, I'll be going about my business when a song will come up on shuffle from an old mix CD and I'll instantly think of the person who gave it to me.
If that doesn't convince you, here's more solid evidence - I bought (and like) "I'm Your's" by Jason Mraz. Yep, that horribly corny song where he fake scats, does the weird pop star laugh and talks about nibbling some poor girl's ear. (Ew) Why you ask? Because it reminds me of the place where I spent last summer. When that song comes on iTunes, I don't think about all of the reasons why I am ridiculous for liking it. Instead, I think of drives through the country, windows down, singing as loudly as possible and feeling the freest I've felt in a long time. And I sing along.
Isn't music wonderful?
Just for embarassment's sake, here it is in all of its glory:
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It is beautiful. It is very true that when those certain songs come one thinks of memories attached not that the song may be rediculous. I know for myself that when "I've got to see you again" by Miley Cirus comes on- I don't think about how its not my musical taste nor the fact that I don't really understand the whole Hannah Monatanna thing or how the subject matter of the song isn't really for tweens- But rather of the place i was when i first heard it and the person I was with.
This brought a little tear to my eye...
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