Music for the Soul

Music is life and it is death. Music has the ability to bring forth your most guarded emotions. It can make you laugh and it can make you cry. Upon hearing just a few bars of a particular song you can be immediately carried back to a specific time and place. When you hear that tantalizing chorus, the one that circles endlessly in your head for days, you can remember feelings of joy, anger, sorrow, defiance, hatred, perfect happiness, confusion and completion. Music is a primal force. It’s international. Music has no boundaries. No barriers. All humans understand music. Every soul feels music. Feeds off of music. You can feel it when your chest pulses from the deep, never ceasing vibrations of the beat.
Music is like food. There is no such thing as bad music. Music is art and always serves some kind of purpose. But there is a somewhat hierarchy when it comes to the different genres and the separation of mainstream, independent and underground. Just like food there is the nutritional stuff and then there is the junk food. The nutritional stuff serves a deeper purpose. This is the music that teaches you things, that touches you. This is the music that has the ability to draw strength and power from out of your soul, strength and power that you had not always known was there. This is the music lifts the veil of ignorance from the shielded eyes of the people. This is music that fuels the mind and soul. This is music that makes a difference. Then there is the junk music. Fluffy pop and ridiculous party songs that sound good and feel great to dance too but make no real difference or contribution in the world. This kind of music is ok in small dosages as long as you keep in mind the fact that it is of no really value and a lot like junk food, too much of it can have a negative affect on a persons mind and soul.