#like i get it...

stress chompin..

honestly why the hell would you listen to music if not for the MUSIC? the point of music is to transcend words, to communicate a feeling universally. alt-J lyrics mean shit fuck to me, i don't understand a goddamn thing, but i still absolutely adore their music bc of the way they can construct a story using wavelengths at different Hertz. i mean??

music is beautiful, music is terrifying, music is unforgiving, beethoven's most famous symphony was written to symbolize the ever present feeling of fate bringing forth your doom.

music has evolved rapidly and so wonderfully, we've gone from commissions from the church with haunting, open chords to genres ranging from rap to country to alternative to pop (and these are just umbrella terms, anyways). we've incorporated technology into our composing process, made entire albums from manipulating wavelengths in a computer program, allowed even the most toneless people to send a message to the world. music evolves as we evolve, molding itself to fit our storytelling.

so to tell me you don't like to actively listen as a song shifts from one tonality to another, brings to life the artist's life through the melody? i just don't understand.

I told him that given the way my mom feels pressured to uproot her life to live in Togo with him and how she talks about Togo, I don't really talk much about him or Togo with her

I do not think she realizes that what she's doing could be spoiling my excitement to learn more about my paternal side of the family. She is right to feel how she feels, but I become frustrated with her inability to recognize that her behavior could affect how I feel about my father and the places he comes from (my grandpa was Togolese and my grandma was Ghana)