5. Please don't stop the music

Hi! Today I’m going to talk about music. The other day I was telling to a friend that music is so important in my life, I walk with music, I take my showers with music, I cook with music, I basically do all the things with music, except sleep.

I think music have the power to express so many feelings that sometimes we don’t feel comfort to express, to ourselves and to other people. So music as an expression of what the people feels, is like history, an emotional history. When we think about other decades like 80’s or 70’s we always think in their music, and if we pay attention to the lyrics we are going to hear about topics and events of that period of time, just as there are rhythms specific for each decade.

That’s why I don’t like commercial music because I really believe that music have to express feelings, ideas or political positioning of the people that live in that decade. For example, I love to listen music about 80’s in Chile groups like Sol y lluvia, Quilapayún, Inti-Illimani, because I don’t live in those years and I think that what musicians write and sing have so much value in relation to the things that we learn in school. Of course music and in specific musician have subjective opinions about the things, like we all have but if you find musician according to your ideals you can share and sing out loud that honest and powerful lyrics.