Soundtrack to My Life

THE SOUNDTRACK OF MY LIFE

Butterfly Kisses—Bob Carlisle
Down the Road—Kenny Chesney
Bless the Broken Road—Rascal Flatts
You Can’t Lose Me—Faith Hill
Country Man—Luke Bryan
Space Jam—Quad City DJ
The Night Before(Life Goes On)—Carrie Underwood
I’ve Had the Time of My Life—Dirty Dancing
Ain’t Nothing Wrong With That—Robert Randolph
The Way You Make Me Feel—Michael Jackson

Going through my extremely long iTunes library, it was hard to only choose ten songs that relate to my life. The majority of the songs in my library are there because they evoke some kind of emotion or memory. The ten songs I did choose each have a specific meaning to me. A lot of the country songs on my list remind me of my boyfriend, country music is pretty much all he listens to and it has started to grow me. He is an important part of my life so these songs are close to my heart. A couple of the songs on my list remind me of my parents and when I was little. They used to play these songs for me and we would dance around the house and sing all of the lyrics as loud as we could. These memories are also a vital part of me and these songs evoke very happy memories of my childhood. Others on the list have to deal with my first dance routine, and car dancing with my best friends. I encountered most of these songs through the radio and other people. Music is a big part of my life in the sense that it helps me portray the emotions I am feeling at any given time.
My soundtrack to anyone else would tell them that I am extremely random when it comes to music choices. I have every genre on this list from rap to country to techno and more. I guess that shows my personality perfectly. I love being spontaneous and I enjoy anything that life throws at me. I don’t limit myself to liking just one type of music. I love the different emotions different types of songs allow me to experience, and the different variety is also a good thing. By looking through this list, I realize that there are many different subcultures I could be a part of. In other people’s minds I could be a hick from the south with all of the country songs. My soundtrack also shows that I am a part of the dance culture, or that I enjoy dancing in my free time which is true. You can judge people a lot by their music choices. However, they may not even be a part of these subgroups. I am a prime example because I am not from the south, and I am definitely not a “hick.” I just enjoy country music. I have a great sense of self, granted my music choices may be random, but I know who I am and what groups I belong to, and the type of music I listen to should not define me as a person, even though often times it does.
Like I said before, people would learn by listening to my play list that I am a very outgoing, random and spontaneous individual. My music choices are fun and energetic so they may gather that I am very friendly. When they listen to “Butterfly Kisses,” or “You Can’t Lose Me,” they will be able to understand that family means a lot to me. This could also show the listener that I am very sentimental as well. Someone may not be able to realize that I am not a typical country music listener. I don’t wear camouflage on a daily basis or drive a Chevy or any other stereotype.
Each and every individual contributes to a larger culture by being a part of various subcultures. The soundtrack to my life shows me in a light that others can put me into the various subcultures that exist in the world. Although some of these may not necessarily be true, they are how others see me. Every individual has different tastes and likings of different genres of music. It is all a matter of how others perceive you. Whether we choose to believe it or not, we judge others on a daily basis. The clothes they wear, the language they speak, their habits, and even the type of music that they listen to. Even if we do judge, we need to realize that all of the different subcultures each individual is apart of create the amazing culture we belong to.
When I was going through my classmate’s soundtrack I was able to determine that this person was most likely a music major. They chose a lot of jazz music that some of my band friends know and listen to. I am not sure if I was accurate on anything else, but it was interesting to hear a different type of music that most teenagers do not listen to. We can never be sure of our inferences or assumptions about others, but I feel that I did a pretty good job.