Pjesmarica

Music. We all love it. Somebody loves it with a passion, for example people who are obssesed with their music collections, people who listen to music every day in a way that it becomes a habit rather than a hobby. Somebody just likes to listen to it as a sort of wallpaper behind the other stuff they do. But everybody does listen to it,more or less.
So,have you ever felt that your mood is defined by the song that you hear at the certain moment? I, for example, had. The other day I was pretty much in a cheerful mood,reading newspapers when a Radiohead song started to flow through my speakers. So,reading an article I stopped and started to listen to the song more carefully. Now, I didn't really listen to the song,I was more conteplating on someone I knew. And the song just swinged my mood from cheerful to moody. Because it affected me. I didn't want to feel that way, so i got up and put on some Chemical Brothers. And then, I started dancing. In just a few moments I have went from beeing cheerful to beeing moody and to beeing cheerful again. And it was all because of music.
So, if you are feeling depressed and you just want to stay that way you could put on a Portishead album on repeat, turn the lights out, lie in bed and stay there for like a day. Or maybe two. Then, when you had enough of self pitying, you could get up put on some Basement Jaxx an dance a bit. And finally when your depression turns to anger put on a Nirvana record and just crash your flat.
In many ways music can affect you mood. I would never put a Coldplay album on a hot summer day because Coldplay makes me feel blue. I like them, but mostly when it rains. On a hot summer day I would put Bob Marley and just sing along with a big grin on my face. Because that is what Bob is all about. Feeling good and happy.
Now, I've never understood people who limit their music taste with one genre. People who only listen to goth metal, or only rap, or only techno, or only rock. Because there is so much wonderful music out there that if you exclude one genre,let alone four or five of them, you miss out on so much.For example if you don't like rap that's fine. Many people don't because nowadays it's all bunch of crap about cars,jewels and money. But by excluding it completely you will miss out on Public Enemy's „Fear of a Black planet“ which really is an epic achievement. If you think electronic music sucks, try and listen to Massive Attack, maybe you'll change your mind. Country music is for rednecks? Maybe Johnny Cash can make you feel different.
My point is that you can't really judge rap by listening to 50 Cent, nor can you judge electronic music by listening to mind numbing bass of detroit techno and you can't really hate pop because of Britney Spears. Try and dig deeper in every genre of music and I guarantee you that you will find something astonishingly beautiful in every one of them.