Step Into My Shoes..

Once in a while I take fancy to a certain musician/artist and most often they are newbies so I get to listen to all of their work. And once I get into them, I just about lose interest in any other music and day in and day out I listen to them. I remember telling someone that discovering a new artist is akin to discovering a strange exotic island where I tend to lose myself, forgetting all about the rest of the world. And more often than not, my islands are the rarely visited ones. While people like to go and frolic about in the touristy islands, I prefer them secluded ones. You may not really have heard about the artists whose music I'm so fond of. So, after I discover them, I spend days and weeks on them till I feel like they're part of me. I leave them fondly to return back once in a while and greet them like old chums. I'm pretty sure most people can relate. So after you are done obsessing over them and you have moved on, found some other life-long chums, o...

mu·sic   [myoo-zik]  noun : an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color. So this is what Dictionary.com says music is. What is music to you? Music is relative to everybody. What music is to me might not be true to you and vice versa. Music, in one way or the other means a lot to everyone, whether or not you are related to creating/playing music. I belong to the second category; I play no musical instrument, do not sing, or write songs. I listen to music and appreciate it. Saw this meme in Google and thought, where would they put me? So where exactly do I belong? I do not belong to any genre. Recently, I took a test of sort and based on the nonsensical questions I answered (picked among the options), they put me in easy-listening category. Before that day, I did not even know there was such a musical genre. Truth be told, I do not have much kno...