Sharing my love of music is just about the most important thing to me (but I probably don't need to tell you that since obviously that's what this whole thing is about). I tweet, facebook, email, and write about bands almost everyday; and for the most part I ask everybody the same questions. To me, the beauty of music is that it goes deeper than just the way it sounds, it's the way it makes you feel when you listen to the words, it's the way you can learn so much about yourself and what you're feeling in the 3 minute span of one song. I want to know what inspires an artist to put pen to paper and compose a series of simple words that in the end mean so much.
It occurred to me today, while I was driving home from a show in Pensacola that I ask you guys some pretty hard (some of you have even said "impossible") questions without even attempting to answer them myself; so here's a quick post about what I'm into (this week at least).
I have not been shy about the simple fact that I have no musical talent whatsoever, my talent lies in writing (hence the blog) and like I always say, I have a strong opinion and a way with words (or so I've been told). My favorite answer to read in an interview is to the question "what inspires you?" I'm not one to deal with my feelings or even attempt to decipher them and I find inspiration in the music itself- in those songs that I hear and I just have to play it over and over and over again, in the songs have me in tears every time I hear the words, or in the songs I just have to dance to (locale does not matter in this instance, I will break it down anywhere.)
The hardest question for every band to answer is one that seemed the most simple to me. I never thought about how difficult it is to name your favorite band, until I tried to name mine. I do think however, despite my diverse and intense love of all music, I have a clear favorite: Mayday Parade. I have honestly loved Mayday since their first EP Tales Told By Dead Friends came out, I have stuck with them through line up changes, 2 years in between albums, and I've seen them live somewhere around 20 times. Derek Sanders is an angel and Mayday Parade can do no wrong. The song Three Cheers For Five Years happens to be the first song they ever wrote and the one song that WITHOUT fail makes me tear up every SINGLE time I hear it (I won't even discuss what it does to me to watch them play it live). That song is lyrical perfection and composed of pure, raw feeling. I'll stop gushing now. Other favorite bands of mine include: Sparks The Rescue, D.R.U.G.S. (the fact that I've gone this entire post and not referred to Craig Owens as my soulmate is a shock, I'm honestly in love with him), A Day To Remember, All Time Low, and Sleeping With Sirens.
The best concert I ever went to, shit that's a hard one. Warped Tour never disappoints, and I once went to Taste of Chaos with my older brother (Chiodos (<3 Craig <3), The Used, Saosin, 30 Seconds to Mars, Aiden) which was amazing. The show I went to last night, the last stop on the End Of The World Tour (Anarbor, The Downtown Fiction, Mayday Parade) was beyond words. It was the first time I've ever seen Anarbor (shout out to their sexy guitarist, literally couldn't take my eyes off of him) and The Downtown Fiction absolutely killed it. Perfection. I shed a tear when it was over.
Filling the walls of my little apartment as I write this post is the song Vanities by Sparks The Rescue. I can't get enough of their music lately because I missed their Jacksonville stop on the S.I.N Tour with my soul mate Craig Owens and D.R.U.G.S. and frankly I just haven't gotten over it yet.
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| This is me and my sister before the show. |
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| The one picture I took during the show, what can I say? I was distracted, I'm a girl in love. |
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