Assignemt #7 - Radio...The Soundtrack Of Our Life

As we go about in our daily lives we are affected by the music and don't even know it. I know for me when I burn CD's and then go back and listen to them a while later it can take me back to that summer or back to my junior year in high school when I made it. In the past 24 hours of actually thinking about what kind of an effect music has on our lives ive come to realize it plays quite a large part.

I pretty much have a routine that I go through every day, in the morning on the way to school I usually listen to talk radio like WGR 550 or Opie and Anthony, I never really understood how people can be blasting their radio at 8:00 in the morning. After school on the way home i'll catch Shredd and Ragan if I can on 103.3 the edge, they usually give you the top stories of the day, but in a funny way that makes if fun to hear about, and the Niagara Falls Police Blotter is hilarious. I usually listen to that if im alone, but with my friends we like to hear all the latest song and sing along. Whats the point of going to a club if there isn't any good, loud music playing? While I'm with my friends I have a different taste in music then I do when I'm alone.

Music can have positive and negative effects on people mood, im sure everyone has come across someone that has the ipod to loud when there sitting next to you on the computers in Capen. It is annoying to everyone around then when we are all trying to study or write a paper. Then again a specific song can make you think of a loved one or make a part in a movie even more touching, I mean come on, what would Titanic be without My Heart Will Go On? Music can even get you pumped up for an athletic event, for my varsity soccer team in high school we had a warm up tape that we listened to before each game that motivate us and got us mentally ready for the up commig event.

Music also influence how we judge someone, wether we hear someone listening to country, 80's or rap, we can instantly get a look into that persons tastes and maybe even their way of thinking. Knowing that someone likes the same kind of music as you might influence your social influence with that person and make you want to talk to or become friends with them because you have similar tastes in music.

Music can have different effects on different people, a song that makes you happy might make another person mad or sad. Music definitely has an impact on me and my life, as I think it does or most people, it just might not be the same genre of music. It effectes up so much that we have to take it everwhere we go with portable mp3 players and even download it to our cell phones as a ringtone. Wether we know it or not, music is all around us influencing us every day in different ways.