WhatWhat music means to me

Daniella Violet Bryce

Childhood During my childhood I had many favourite artists, but the most memorable is Avril Lavigne. When I was younger she was really an inspiration, my favourite songs used to be Sk8ter Boi, Complicated and Girlfriend. I used to really like how she wasnt ‘girly’ and her songs were powerful, with meaning. Although I don’t listen to her music as much as I did then, whenever I hear any of her songs, even her most recent onses, I feel nostalgic as those songs were a large part of my childhood.

Early TeensDuring my early teen years I discovered alternative rock/punk/grunge music and really it was all I listened to for a couple years. I mainly listened to Paramore, P!nk, Green Day and All Time Low. The song I remember most id Damned If I do ya by All Time Low, purely because I remember listening to it on repeat for about 2 weeks. I now can’t stand the song. But I still have all these artists on my playlist and I still listen to them on occasion. From a very young age I remember liking rock music and from then that didn’t change until recently.

PresentNow my taste in music has changed dramatically. I’m a huge fan of Owl City and all his side projects (Sky Saling, Port Blue). I own all his albums and it’s basically all I listen to and it has been for about a year. I like his music so much because it doesn’t make sense, you have to work out what he is singing about. Also It sounds more like poetry than music. Furthermore he writes his own songs and plays a number of instruments. I find his music represents the things in life we can’t actually see but we have to imagine them and his music is always an inspiration. The one song I particularly like is Captains of the Sky which he wrote as Sky Sailing or Hot Air Balloon as Owl City as these songs I can listen to all day and never get bored.

I’ve noticed that over the years my taste in music has changed as I’ve grown older. From punk to alternative rock and now electronica. I still listen to the older bands but now I listen to music purely to enjoy it rather than keeping up with trends, plus mainstream music is so conventional and unimaginative, all the songs sound the same and are very repetitive. Music means inspiration to me.