For me, music serves as an emotional warehouse, capturing my feelings at a particular moment and storing them. When a song becomes associated with a person, or place, or time in my life, listening to that song brings up those memories even years later. This happens even when the content of the song itself has nothing whatsoever to do with those memories.
Example: ‘Red’ by Taylor Swift. The lyrics are word candy, and the music is delightfully energetic. (Last week, after eating a sumptuous lunch and then driving an hour in the warm summer sun, I felt myself starting to nod off… so I rolled my windows down, turned on ‘Red’ full-blast, and sang along. It worked.) But that’s not the reason I like the song. The main reason I enjoy listening to ‘Red’ is because it reminds me of my friend Olivia. You see, Olivia really likes Taylor Swift, and ‘Red’ is one of her favorites. It’s become one of a handful of songs that reminds of a specific person in my life. Because of my connection to Olivia, I value ‘Red’ in a way that has nothing to do with the song itself. (‘Red’ also provides great fodder for philosophical discussions. Just try comparing Swift’s use of similes to Homer’s in ‘The Iliad’, or use Plato’s exploration of knowledge in ‘Theaetetus’ to think about what it would mean to ‘know someone you’ve never met’) https://youtu.be/34Kql5L5eeE -Zachary Holbrook
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