Music is what many of us enjoy while we're driving in the car, studying for a big test, running on the treadmill. Music tells many of us how we're supposed to feel during a TV show, movie, play.
Music has the ability to save us from ourselves.
A few songs that have done this for me.
Wonderful by Gary Go.
This song's chorus asks, no pleads, with the listener to say "I am Wonderful." Growing up as a kid with a mild form of body dismorphia, this is absolutely the hardest thing for me to do most days. I mean, I look in my full length mirror every single day and in the morning, I may pick out one thing that's really good, or tear apart myself piece by piece. It's not healthy. But when I'm running on the treadmill and that song comes on, I just let it all out and go full force, just like they do in the video.
Very Busy People by The Limosines
A silly little diddy with great imagery. "While we masturbate to pixelated videos of strangers fucking themselves" It's full of witting lines like "The Donnie Darko DVD has been repeating for a week/And we know every single word./I got an iPod like a pirate ship/We'll sail the seas with 50,000 songs we've never heard." It makes me remember about what life should be like when we have nothing better to do. We're very busy people, but we're rarely busy when it comes to the important things like meeting new friends and making inside jokes.
You Belong With Me by Taylor Swift
Okay. I'm officially too gay to function. But seriously, can you say story of my life? Multiple instances of exactly what this song talks about. However, I am a firm believer that the song is less about unrequited love and being in love with your best friend, but about surviving everything love throws at you. It hurts, but you're not alone and you'll get through it. T. Swizzle reminds us of that every time she is not interrupted by a douchebag rapper at an awards ceremony.
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