Music

Music exists all around us. It is an essential part of almost everyone’s life.

People are affected by music all the time, though they do not notice the effect. For instance, music can arouse a lot of emotions in people such as: sadness, happiness etc. Also, there are many different genres of music. People have their own favorite genres according to their preferences.

 My favorite genre is soul music. Soul music was originally sung and performed by black people. I had never heard of soul music until 2008. I was surfing the web and I found a group called Brown Eyed Soul. There are four Korean men in the group, and as the name of the group indicates, their genre is soul. I was sitting in front of my laptop staring at those people singing in the screen. I was so fascinated by their songs that I only listened to them for the next two months. I did not know it was soul music, but as I was more curious about the group I searched internet and found that it was soul music. After that I searched for the soul singers who had influenced this group. There are various artists and I did not like all of them. However, some of them grabbed my attention and broke my stereotype of black artists’ music. I used to think that only Black people but realized later that this is not true. I felt that Black people have had a major impact on soul music

Generally speaking, Soul music sounds deep but at same time, it sounds ample as well. Personally, I think soul is one of those music genres which can affect people’s emotion the most. It is because most of soul songs are powerful and soft, simultaneously. This change in dynamics makes people feel something more as compared to a type of music that has the same dynamics throughout the whole song. People listen to music for many different purposes. Some people listen to music when they need energy or encouragements and I think especially soul music, due to its inspirational wordings, helps people fell encouraged. I feel good when I listen to soul music because some soul songs, powerful sound blows away the thoughts of things that I am stressed about. 

Soul music has another great effect on me. I did not really like singing before I knew soul music. Yet, since I got to know about the soul music I slowly got interested in singing and I love it now. Singing became one of my favorite things to do and it helps me to get rid of my stress. Also, it made me to like music general. Liking music has provided me lots of things. Music is one of the things that helps me to get rid of stresses, to calm myself, to socialize with people. Sometimes, it motivates me in many ways with its lyrics or by the musicians just like those soul singers who make me feel better with their music and motivates with their skills and passion.

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