A song, despite why it was written, can have a million different meanings to a million different people. The feelings can be similar and the point the artist was trying to make can be clear but the feelings that you get when a certain song comes on that just happens to describe everything that is going on in your life at that very moment can pretty much take your breath away. I pretty much base all of my music preference on artists that seem to try and reach people on that same level through their lyrics.
A good example is the song "thank you" by dido. She wrote the song originally to say thank you to someone for making even her bad days better just by simply being a part of her life.
Dido: "It was such a brilliant track. It totally twisted my very sweet love song into something very dark. I loved it"
Like she said when Eminem heard it, he thought of something different....
Eminem: "When I heard the words to that song, I was like, "Yo, this is an obsessed fan." Dido's words instantly put me there."
A song can take you to a place in your mind that can be a memory or somewhere that your imagination makes up. Both thank you and Stan where both relatively straight forward songs that clearly illustrated what they were really about but they were able to change them into something completely different.
The same thing happens when you associate a certain song with a certain memory. A song that brings up a beautiful memory for you could bring up a horrible one for someone else. Memories of what you were doing and how you were feeling when you heard that specific song can change the meaning of that song for you or someone else.
Music is extremely powerful and I wonder sometimes what life would be like without it. Singing at the top of my lungs to a song with powerful lyrics is one of the greatest ways to relieve stress. Singing the words is like saying all the things I wish I could say but cant. Singing gives a voice to my feelings.
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