Can anybody tell me what is "a song that you love" ? I suppose it's something that makes you feel something. Or just sounds good. But if it just sounds good, it doesn't mean you love it. It just plays in your car, in your headphones or on your favourite radio station. A song that you love is a song that you just sit and listen to it. A song that echoes in your brain, in your mind, in your imagination.
Here's an exercise:
Pick a song that you truly love. The one that "echoes". Play it once. Twice.
The third time, while listening to it, the moment you feel something, write that feeling down in an adjective or a couple of words. Do this througout the song.
Then put the pen down. Look at what you wrote. Analyse the words and see what feelings you just had. The stronger the feeling were, the more you love the song.
Here's what I've picked: Audiomachine - "House of Cards". It's a short song that plays in a lot of trailers.
You can listen to it here
And here's what ran through my mind while listening to it:
ritual
quiet
relaxing
angelic
high spirits
grand
warmth
beautiful
luminous/ irradiant
warmth
challenging
up-lifting
engaging
something is coming
silence before the storm
severe
terifiyng
pain
killing
powerful
wripping apart
sublime
cry
end of the world
lost love
no use living
sky falling
resolute
Looking back at the list, it's actually a glimpse of my imagination and what happened with my mind when the music played. It's images transposed into words. And reading it afterwords reminds me exactly of what I was thinking in that moment.
Depending on your mood, the same song can bring up other words, but writing your feelings down is like an open window to your imagination.
Anybody dare to try it? Using your lovely song, ofcourse.
