My Love of Music
I think I love music more than I love purses and sneakers. I know that sounds weird due to the name of this blog is Sneakers and Handbags but, music is one of those things that gives me 100 emotions in 2 to 5 minutes. I was on Instagram and I follow a few pages that are dedicated to vinyl and one post showed the person playing Soul Searching by Average White Band. That album brings back so many memories. The funny thing is I believe I can tell you where all the clicks are on each song from the 8 track. (yes I just gave away my age). I remember my mom putting Journey’s Evolution on the turntable and hearing Lovin’ Touchin’ Squeezin’ on then it goes right into City of The Angles and I to this day let out a scream then that sequence happens. Music was always played in our house and if you watch my videos they are part of my background. When I’m at work, traveling or just relaxing there’s music playing. Music keeps me from going insane and it helps me concentrate on what the task at hand. At times I will stop and dance and sing the current song that is playing and normally it’s a song that I grew up listening to. Confession time when I was younger I had a journal and the titles of each day were from songs that summed up the days events or how I was feeling about the guy of the moment.
Needless to say music is my life and when I am not listening to it I’m humming a song or have a music video running in my head. For some this might sound a bit crazy but for me and my family it’s normal. One day I posted on Facebook “Up with the sun gone with the wind” and one of my cousins quoted the second line of the song Travelin’ Man by Bob Seger and it was funny. Even my extended family is the same way. We all grew up with music playing in our homes. I remember spendings weekends at my aunts house and hearing Fleetwood Mac or Jethro Tull playing over and over in a loop sometimes and it was great till the eighth or ninth time then you want to go home and listen to NWA or Special Ed. Even when gangster rap become popular my parents didn’t mind it. They just wanted me to turn it down, During my college days (the first round) I still lived at home and when I would wake up and turn on my stereo to play 2Pac’s All Eyez on Me and the first song Ambitions of a Raidah. That was my morning song as I got ready for school then you would hear my mom yell for me to play How Do You Want It w/KC and JoJo then we partied till time to catch the but to go to school.
When something is such a big part of your life for so long you never turn it off. I love music (no O’Jays pun intendant) and I will never stop.