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Music : My Music And The Joy Of Music

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Family and friends represent the joy of music.

Music has different meanings, but to me music is the way I express my emotions and thoughts. I like to listen to happy songs not anything sad that will make me cry because in the end, thinking positive, positive things will happen. The music I listen to reveals my personality and the way I act in life. When making a playlist, I add songs not by what year it is but what makes me smile and remember all my good memories that go with it. When I was younger my family would go on road trips for days. The only way my father would stay awake is having the music on blast. The worst part if he liked a song, he kept replaying it until we reached our destination. The song he kept replaying was “Rain over Me” (Perez, 2011) I can still remember him wiggling his fingers to imitate rain and singing “Let it rain over me, I’m rising so high out of my mind, so let it rain over me. “Listening to this song reminds me how there was wind crossing through my face and gave me that true feeling of being a human being. Music to my family are fun moments, even when my grandparents visit. Every time my grandpa would come over he would grab his cup of tea, sit back on his favorite couch and ask for us to play his favorite song “Despacito” (Fonsi, 2017). His favorite part, well the only part he knows how to sing, was “Despacito” and then saying O after every sentence. That song brought joy to my grandfather’s face and it gave us the true essences of

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