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M is for Music

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I love music! Almost as much as I love my cats.

I grew up on early 90′s country–Travis Tritt, Randy Travis, Reba, Garth Brooks, to name a few–because both my parents loved it. My dad would blare it over the surround system we had and me and my little siblings would dance. Especially to this song:

Then it grew into 90′s pop. Backstreet Boys was my first-ever CD (I was like 9-10-ish) and I listened to it on repeat…for months. N’sync. Savage Garden’s still a favorite, even now. I started listening to the remixes late at night on a pop radio station that’s long-since gone under. (Still freakin’ love remixes.)

Then I had a Weird Al Yankovic phase (it lasted way too long -winces- My dad wanted to skin me!) which I’m thankful to say has FULLY passed, haha.

When I’m angry or angsty, I love My Chemical Romance. I’ve yet to find another band that screams that I like though LOL

I still love anime soundtracks, despite having not watched anime in a looong time. Faves? Escaflowne, Wolf’s Rain, Fullmetal Alchemist.

Lately, I’ve kind of developed a boyish-voice pop/punk/rock sort of love: Adam Lambert, Cartel, The Rocket Summer, Relient K, All American Rejects, Fall Out Boy, Panic! at the Disco. Way more, but I’m tired so. XD

But all time favorites…would be the CDs my mom and I would listen to whenever we were sad, whenever we were happy. The music that we’d return to, despite my dad loathing it. John Mayer, Maroon 5, Keith Urban, and Jason Mraz.

And one more: My current obsession. I’ve yet to see The Hunger Games, but my bro introduced me to this song and, come on. It’s Maroon 5. :D Enjoy!

Music Monday: Forever Unstoppable

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I recently got the Whatever CD from Hot Chelle Rae; for the most part the lyrics are kind of meh/not high on my OMGAWESOME list. But the beats are catchy and I find myself singing to the CD. It’s definitely something I’ll be walking/dancing to :)

But this song, I really love. It’s my favorite on the CD and it’s aptly fitting in a sense for me. I recently started a lifestyle change, to aim to get healthier, happier, and fit. I’ve always believed weight loss was impossible with Polycystic Ovarian syndrome…but I really think I just needed to find what was right for me. I’m very happy with my loss so far, proud of myself. I feel Forever Unstoppable right this minute :)

Music Is My Drug

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Music has pretty much always been a huge part of my life. When I was a toddler, I’d sing myself awake every morning. I grew up listening to old 90′s country, wailing along with the radio station or whatever cassette my dad had in on his hulking surround-sound stereo.

One of my most amusing memories is when my dad would watch football…and of course, Hank Williams Jr. sang the Monday Night Football tune back then. Me and my little brother would dance to it, wildly thrashing, dancing, and end up rolling on the floor, tears of laughter in our eyes (I know: strange kids are strange).

Moving on up the years, my brother and I would hang out in his room after we were put to bed (hey, we were both being homeschooled! No harm done) and listen to the Weird Al CDs we’d borrow repeatedly from the library while playing with toys and making up our own stories (the most memorable toys? A bendy arm/leg frog-man and a guy from some show…who we just ended up naming Some Guy. Oh, and George, the one-legged boating guy…)

My first-ever CD was N’Sync and I played the crap outta that CD (and I still love it!)

By then, who listened to country? Not us! We were listening to 90′s pop on an epic channel that’s no longer around, and late at night they’d play remixes. Remixes and techno/trance…oh I love them. They used to play this one song and we ended up buying DDR JUST to dance to that song. XD

I starting saving allowance just to buy CDs; I gathered everything from Britney and Backstreet Boys, to Savage Garden and Three Doors Down. Dad gave us his old Matchbox 20 CD even though it had a few -gasp- cuss words in it.

Now? I’m a music hoarder. I love almost everything, but prefer pop/punk, rock, alternative, indie… The list goes on. I like some screamo, but only if I’m angsty or angry. I don’t like oldies at all, the exception being the Beatles, and I’m not fond of most country (but that’s because my stepdad plays it nonstop) though I do love Garth and some older country. Nothing too twangy though xD

My sibs and I, we have different tastes in music. My bro is more of a The Shins/Arctic Monkeys/MGMT sort of guy, who listens to some odd stuff… Some of it I kinda blink at, as I don’t get it at all. It’s just not MY sort of music. My sister, on the other hand, listens to harder rock and screamo: I Set My Friends On Fire? Scary stuff. It’s rare that we all can agree on music to play if we’re all doing something (because we typically have to appease Mom too) but Panic! and Relient K seem to all work. Maroon 5, sometimes. John Mayer usually. My sibs tell me my music is “Mainstream” but yanno? I don’t care. I like my music and I’ll play it proudly :)

What sort of music do you listen to? Any favorite artists or genres? I’d love to hear what everyone likes! :D