Music is in your life, Music is in your heart!

Music is in our lives whether we like it or not.

Two of the most interesting questions I've ever asked myself is how did music begin and where did it actually come from? 

Music goes back to prehistoric times. Early humans figured out how to make sounds by blowing in hollow pieces of wood or banging things together. Eventually, stringed instruments were created from bits of vine or animal gut. Drums were advanced using animal skins as well.

Since then humans started playing the sounds and combining them into something unique that we now  call the song. This activity then transformed into many various songs that later became a great music industry with different types of songs.  There are such types as  Instrumental, Rap, Hip-Hop, Pop, Rock, Indie Rock,  Hard Rock, Dubstep, House, Blues, Jazz, and Orchestra music.

This  great industry started having a great impact on people life in the society.
For  example, in the 70s there started to appear such bands as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Queen, Aerosmith, The Eagles, and AC/DC. These bands were mostly consisting of guitarists, drummer and singer/ soloist. Members of these bands were quite talented and made a great furor on public. Their songs were a combination of Indie and Hard Rock styles. Their music, including lyrics and style,created an impact on the public that eventually  changed society.

But as we know, our life changes almost every minute and every year we live is slightly different from the previous one. Later, 80s  rock was heavily influenced by MTV. The corporations chose better looking artists to put in music videos on MTV, and sacrificed the talent. Therefore, artists who could also dance, such as Michael Jackson, Madonna, Prince and others emerged, leaving the poets such as Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, and those who weren't too physically attractive to become less popular.  In my opinion, atractivness of performers became more important than their talent to perform. In  the 80s a great amount of attention went into style and physical condition/atraktivness of the body of the artist. In retrospect, we now see what a great impact the music industry had on everything: values, views, belifes, fashion and life style.

The most developed countries that were producing pop and rock music in the 80s were the  USA and  England. In the 90s that changed. More countries started being interested in producing the same type of music but in their own langueages. So in the  90s Russia introduced to the public such bands as  Laskoviy May (Tender May), Combinacia (Combination) and many others  that had a similar style as American Pop Music. Another great example is Canadian World famous Indie Rock band Yellow Tape(1991).

Along with all these changes, music began occupying positions in our daily life. How many times do you listen to  music every day? AT LEAST ONE!  For example on the radio, TV, on the street, at Sturbucks, I Pad, CD and so on. 

Does it have an influence on you these days? ABSOLUTELY!

Music influences the way you dress, the way you do your make up , your values or beliefs, your praticipation or role in the society, jokes you say, your daily schedule and  even what you are eating.  We are trying to look like our idols because they define the style of dress, make up, proportions of our body and  even the style  of our  life. Even if do not think we are being influenced, we are...

I interviewed my friends whose age range is from 14 to 23 years old. I recorded these interviews on my camera and then combined them by creating a short film that is called "Music is in Your Life, Music is in Your Heart!  In this video students and teachers of Nancy Campbell Coligate Institute ( London,Ontario) share their views on music and its contribution to their life. 

There are so many proofs (that you already discovered by just reading this article) that music has a great impact on almost every aspect of our life, but there is one more question left that is also important to consider. The question is" How does music Influences you?" 

Music could inflence you in a good way or in a bad way. 

For example, there are songs that promote disgracefull and degrating style of life. If you listen to the song "Girls on the Dance Floor" by Far East Movement, you will hear such phrases as " Girl you know what it is, follow me to the floor, you could bring your friends, they could drink a little more". Correctly picked chords and beats make people listen to it  without thinking about the meaning and message of the song. But how does it actually influence you from just listening to it? 

By listening to this song you would want to go to the club, then drink, then 'drink a little more' and then that would result in  1st short term- nausea and 2nd long term- alcoholic/drugs adiction. But there is also a good influence that music can have on you. For example, there is a  song "Stand Up to Cancer" by all the most famous pop singers of our time, that promotes an idea of standing up to cancer and was made to raise money to help  fight cancer. By creating and introducing this song to the public, the organization that greated this event raised 1 million dollars. 

Questions that you were curious about are answered. Music comes from a while ago and in many different forms. Music influences you every single day of your life even more then you might be thinking. Music influences you in a good way or in a bad way, it all depends on you;)

My role as a bloger is to send the messege and share the information that I have discovered for you, My Reader, to understand that there are more things that influence you then you think. 

I hope that after reading this article you would start giving a greater amout of attention to things around you and to use your life wisely!;)