Get lost, elevator jazz. Hang up, hold music. Pack your bags, grocery store soundtrack.
Your whispering background noise is an insult to music everywhere.
Yes, when the soul-lifting beauty of music dissolves into fluorescent-dim worlds of three-piece suits, can-clinking carts, and phone calls to cable companies, it becomes Music Wallpaper – polite, pleasant, pastel-pasted.
Loud music demands attention.
Booming tunes shush coffee table conversations, ringing cell phones, and scattering thoughts. When songs slam your brain, bass shakes your bones, and chest-clenching notes sponge into you, it’s like you suddenly slip outside of being you…
1. Dark dance parties. I was hanging at my apartment a few weeks ago with old friends from school. After clinking drinks and chatting about old times we suddenly shoved all the furniture to the side, flicked off the lights, and cranked up the music. Mortgage rates, back pain, and job fears all disappeared into darkness as we slipped and skidded across sliding floors. Sweaty bangs, big smiles, and twenty-finger cracks squeakily lowered the velvety curtains on the backdrop of the world.
2. Airplane escapes. Cranking your headphones on long flights helps you slip into safe spaces in strange places. Rip-rocketing through thunderstorms at breakneck speeds in liquidless, security-screened worlds of emergency exits, recycled air, and screaming babies can be stressful. So pull on your hoodie, close your eyes, and slouch deep into the blaring abyss.
3. Midnight drives. Fresh farm air rips through open windows, painted lanes whip by, and skunk and hay bales fill your car as you twist down empty roads on your way home. Let the bumping radio snap you to attention and sing-a-long on the dark drive home.
Yes, loud music demands attention.
Suddenly all the energy the band bucketpoured into the recording flies straight out of your speakers and into your heart. Drum beats revolve as your worries dissolve and cymbals crash to pieces as your brain finally releases.
Let your self float away.
AWESOME!
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Listen to loud music is one of the things that makes me really happy. Every day when I wake up, I play a loud music to think and refresh my mind. It’s like the three minutes of the day when I really switch off. School, boyfriend, fear and problems all desappear as I put my headphone on and close my eyes.
Letting yourself go into the music is one of the greatest feelings you can ever get, it usually allows you to forget about any worry or situation you might be going throught. Music itself is already awsome, doesn’t matter if you are happy or sad, and when it is loud, and you lose yourself in it. Music becomes a part of me immendiatly, it makes me feel better just to listen to any of the songs in my ipod, and it is even better when it is being played in the highest volume.