Music is a vocal or instrumental sound that is combined in such a way to produce beauty to form, harmony, and expression of emotions. Music can mean anything to people. It can help many people through anything. It can inspire people and it can remind people of many things. Music is a way to express yourself, keep the company while you are alone, or give you something to do. 

Everyone listens to music for different reasons. Some people listen to help to show who they are in many ways and help their inner thoughts. 

“Music can speak to the soul, especially if you are going through hard times. The lyrics are more than just words; it is soul food for the mental. Music is not just about what song sounds like or the beat put into the song. It is about the story’s lyrics, and how the emotions it gives off makes your spirit feel,” Anastasia Denzmore (‘22) said.

Many people feel like they can connect with other people if they like the same artists. They can compare the songs with the artists and see who likes what, with the different albums. People listen to whatever that puts themselves in a good mood, whether it would be good, sad music. Or the music making you dance in the shower and dance in the mirror. 

Music can be loud or it can be quiet, and satisfying. Music can be anything to the rave EDM music to the soft rain sounds that hit your shutters at night. Even if it does not really seem like it is music, it is instrumental, and that is what music not is. There are so many things within music, so many genres throughout the music world. It has anything that you want to listen to, either on a rainy day, a sunny ninety-five degree weather day at the pool, or when you want to listen to music that is not super loud while studying, and there are some days that you want to listen to music that makes your eardrums almost blow out. 

Some music genres are hip hop, rock, musical theatre, jazz, pop music, folk music, blues, heavy metal, country music, classical music, rhythm and blues, punk rock, reggae, electronic dance music, singing, alternative rock, soul music, funk, popular music, disco, techno, house music, indie rock, dubstep, rap, and electro. There  are a lot more that are coming out every day with a new name and new music throughout the genre. 

Some of the artists that some people listen to are Hozier, Twenty-One Pilots, Harry Styles, Noah Cyrus, Machine Gun Kelly, Melanie Martinez, Post Malone, Luke Combs, Luke Bryan, Johnny Cash, Ruel, Anson, Seabra, Kendrick Lamar, NBA Young Boy, NF, Lewis Capaldi, Khalid, The Weekend, K.Flay, Craig Morgan, Brent Faiyaz, Lil Uzi, Kodaline, Kane brown, and Mal Blum. Although there are millions of amazing artists, there are many more that people listen to.. 

The artists above, some have been in the music industry for a long time, and some have been fresh off, and have only been in the music business for a year, or two. For example, the band Twenty-One Pilots were formed in 2009. 

Some of the popular music apps that you can listen to any type of music are; Deezer, iHeartRadio, Pandora Music, SoundCloud, Spotify, Youtube Music, and Amazon music. Spotify is one of the popular companies that started in 2006, and there are two options, you can have the free version with a certain amount of skips and ads or you can pay $9.99 per month. However, you can use other apps like Youtube Music for the same thing. However, with Youtube Music, you can play anything you want any time, but with ads. Though some people use Apple Music, and that seems like it is one of the most popular apps.