Music: The Indescribable Impact On Our Ordinary Lives

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YouTube is one of those places where you tend to know songs that have touched people's lives, spiritually, mentally, and even emotionally

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You'd see the number of views and how astronomical they are and then when you view the comment section you'd see the testimonies of people on how some of these songs have changed their lives. Firstly I used to wonder how this happens until I was in the hospital myself, it's a place of loneliness, a lot of people are battling depression, finding it difficult to cope with the sense of hopelessness that often surrounds their situation. For example, when I was taking care of my mother while she was alive, I could recount how listening to certain songs lifted my spirit.

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The Paradox Of Craving Upliftment

I could remember listening to some particular songs, while they were not soul-lifting, they played a role in helping me combat the loneliness, the suffering.

The torture of being amongst hostile people, the smell of drips, the surreal imagination of seeing syringes, the odor of Dettol and many other things.
However, when we're battling experiences such as this, it's always the lyrics of the song, we're more keyed into rather than the melody because if there's one thing I've discovered, it's the fact that sadness makes up tap into the lyrics of a song and create a synonymity with it, while happiness or a sense of jive, makes us tap into the grove or the melody of a song.

Attaching Lyrics To Human Experience

Another thing is that we can attach a particular experience or an event in our lives to some particular songs. And this is probably because of how we streamed such songs when these events were happening in our lives.

When I was in school, I was fond of listening to Beautiful Nubia, some of his songs like "seven lives," "the small people's anthem" and "what a feeling", the songs In general never related to my experiences they were curated for me by a colleague, it turned out that I liked them, and I couldn't sing these songs again without remembering those experiences.

This is the same with when we fall in love, had that first kiss, or something more iconic or memorable. We might not necessarily be love song freaks, this way we can strangely detest a beautiful song because it reminds us of people who meant a lot but they're no longer there.

In reality, a lot of people usually feel that people who are going through pain should listen to soulful songs or even songs that uplift them, but the reverse is the case.

How so?

You see, humans, we're emphatical, sometimes dwelling on our pain rather than living in denial of it is the first step towards recovery and this is why we prefer listening to melancholic songs, even when our situation hardly needs such songs.

When it comes to listening to melancholic or tragic songs, there are hardly any genres and this is because we can categorically relate to pain irrespective of the language, the tone, or the feel. Sometimes, there are tunes that we can categorize as tragedies.

A Keen Sense Of Music 🎵

Since every human being has a different sense of music we can still relate to tragic tunes whenever we listen to it, it's relative and somber, it creates an unreal imagination inside the mind and it taps into our individual experience at the same time. However, songs aren't just about sadness or happiness, there are other grey areas like triumph, hope, faith, hustle, victory, or even accomplishments.

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Here's lucky Dube's I've got you babe

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I usually listen to songs based on how melodious and impactful they can be. I'm not the dance kind of person, nor do I have any fetish for any genre, I listened to Lucky Dube's songs as a child and as an adult, and till tomorrow I'll keep listening to them, this is because, they're beautiful, prophetic, preaching love and togetherness, especially in a period where the man himself was exposed to the division that came with apartheid and racism.

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Here's fast car, Tracy Chapman

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Oldies And The Impactful Lyrics 🎸

I was exposed to a lot of struggle as a younger person, and this made me listen to artists like Barry Jhay, especially because they were uplifting and encouraging. I think I'm more of an oldie, this is why I listened to the likes of Rkelly, Celine Dion, Westlife, Lighthouse family and so many others.

I feel like, music in this generation is less impactful. Tracy Chapman's fast car was one song that was beautifully done, sometimes I check the views and YouTube and I was blown away. I cannot entirely curate every song I listened to for you. But we can generally say that music is core to human existence and it'll continue to be so for a very long time.

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