Over the past thirty- or forty-years music and music videos have become such a huge part of our everyday lives. In class we talked about the way music can affect the way people feel and just the power it has over the listeners. Everyone listens to different types of music for different reasons. Music can help people in many ways because it can help with your mood or it can show you that certain situations you go through you are not going through alone. Throughout that past few days in class we talked about a paper we are writing about a music video of our choice. This paper is about how the music and the video relate to a societal issue and the importance of it.
For my video I am doing Supermarket Flowers by Ed Sheeran which is about the passing of his grandmother and just the struggle of losing a loved one. Sadly, death is something that each and everyone of us has to deal with at some point in your life and it is never expected or easy to deal with. Just recently I lost one of my best friends and it was one of the hardest things I have ever had to deal with. Although having the support of my family and friend’s music was something that really helped me, I was able to listen to songs and just forget about the world for a little. I think that is the case with most people and music, they can listen to the songs and just escape reality for a little. When you listen to certain songs and get lost in the lyrics. Each song paints a picture of something the artist has been thorough or experienced and the listeners can relate to them. There is a song for almost any mood whether you are happy, sad, mad, in love, heartbroken, relaxing, and so much more then there is always a different song you can play. You can easily just lose yourself in each song.
That is one of the reasons I wanted to go into business because I could then help people through music. Although I can not sing or play an instrument, I am still able to manage artists and get their meaningful and important messages out to the world. By doing that I could possibly help one person with each song, that would be enough. Being a person that has needed music in certain points in my life I know how it can change even the way you look at life. By being a business management major, joining the Learning Community, and being in the Ziegler Institute of Professional Development I get a well-rounded education and also, I am learning the professional skills that I will need in the competitive world of music. Every hour I spend working on an assignment or I spend at a ZIPD program I know that I am improving my professional skills and all-around knowledge that will soon help me in the future. All my life I have always wanted to help people and never knew how I wanted to do that. I thought about being a physical therapist at one point because I am interested in sports and anatomy and I could help people but I knew I would not love the job as well as I thought about going into criminal justice so I could help people who were in need and couldn’t do it for themselves. But both of those options were not things that I would love to do for the rest of my life.
When it comes to music it is something that has always helped me and always been a large part of my life as well as it having an impact on every other person around me. Music is a universal language almost because it is something every person relates to and everyone listens to. So by working in this industry I am able to leave my mark on the world and help any other kids in the world that are going through there own problems.
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