What Music Means To Me

My Childhood Song

 

My Teenage Song

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My More Current Song

Conclusion

Personally I feel that over the years my music taste and interests have become far more complex and expanded. I remember when I was younger my only consumption of music would be whatever was on the radio on the way to and from primary school in the car. However, as I grew further into the technological age and joined secondary school I eventually was pulled in to social groups who would all follow their own artists and passions for music. I also feel that as an individual being in a school that has such a vast age range you eventually become exposed to more serious music with attitude and strong language. I also believe that as I got older I became more independent in terms of my music choices and began to compile a collection of old songs from my childhood with modern day songs that were fresh out and heavily advertised. 

My overall consumption over the years has been to purchase on the iTunes Store however when that wasn't an option I often asked my Mother to buy me CD's for Christmas and Birthday's to make sure I kept up with my friends. In the modern day world there is just such a vast choice that I don't even have to purchase a song to listen to it for the rest of my life. With technology such as Spotify and Soundcloud and not to mention YouTube being introduced worldwide it has now become effortless to have new music, existing music and remixes at the click of a button, allowing me to share new songs with friends and family and for a group of friends to make a playlist linking people on a social level.  Conclusively I feel that after studying Media at both GCSE and A Level for the best part of 3 years has allowed me to develop more of an understanding as to what to expect in terms of lyrics and stereotypes within songs. On a closing note I now feel that I don't worry about my music consumption as much as I once did with the possibility of having an entire library of genres online I no longer have to have a narrow selection and I can broaden and grow the collection whenever I like.

Reflection

I personally feel that from this blog post of analysing why i enjoy certain songs will help both myself and group decide what characteristics to use in both our music video and our song to make sure we attract the correct audience. I feel that looking back on my attachments to music emotion and the storyline have often played huge parts in my favouring of a song, something that my group should look to capitalise on and use in our production.