Music & Me

Hello. My name is Simone. I'm a bit of an older student. I came to Converse to study Biochemistry. In hopes to go into the research on how diet and genetics have a hand in cancer and diabetes because i have a family history with both. Before I came here, I was a truck driver, I was a class A CDL holder and have driven through most of the lower forty-eight states. Before that I was a licensed auto and property insurance agent that was licensed in forty-nine of fifty states. I had been wanting to come back to school for a while before I actually did but felt like there were things that I needed to do beforehand.

A lot of my musical taste is roughly in the same category with a few exceptions. Below are a some examples of the majority of my music taste. Some of the exceptions would be Avril Lavigne, Katie Perry, Adam Lambert, Billie Eilish, Halestorm and Kesha

1. Examples that I like right now: 

        There are three examples of music that I like right now. The first one is Letdown. (the period is a part of the name.) The second one is Fit for Rivals, and the third one is Black Veil Brides. These bands are the ones I shuffle through the most when on Spotify. Most of the reasoning behind that is the voice of the singer. It's really hard to describe the reason behind why I like their voices so much. Five Finger Death Punch can also fall into this category.  Another reason I like them right now is because they help me focus on my schoolwork or help to keep me awake while I'm driving if I feel tired.

2. Music that means something to me:

One band that has come to mean a lot to me is Tokio Hotel. This is the band that helped me find a new language to learn, they are also a big reason as to why I'm a German Studies Minor. How did they help me find a new language to learn? I was in high school, it was summertime and I just happened to stumble upon them online. At first I tried learning Spanish but it never really clicked. I think the first song of theirs that I listened to was “Durch den Monsun" English version being “Monsoon" and I recognized a lot of the words before I even heard the English version.  I was so intrigued by the language that I just had to learn it. Even after high school. Black Veil Brides could also go into this category. Especially the music video I placed in the previous section. I use to have some of the lyrics from that song tattooed on me.

3. Music that I don't really connect with:

There are only three types of music that I don't really connect with. At least I think it’s three types because I don’t know if one of them should be split into two categories. Those categories would be rap/hip hop, country, and classical. Growing up my mother would listen to country music. Well, when she could. What I had heard of it wasn’t all that good. During my middle and high school days, almost all of the students listened to rap/ hip hop. And a lot of the time they would play it so loud that everyone in the room could hear it. It didn’t make, and still doesn’t make sense to me. I don’t know if it was just the lyrics themselves or the beat of the music that I didn’t like, or because of both. I really couldn’t tell. The last type of music would be classical. I wasn’t exposed to it as a young child, if fact I think I was only exposed to it because of school. I find it utterly boring. I know that there have been studies that showed that listening to classical music is supposed to help with focus like being able to study, and something else that I don’t know at the moment, but it will put me to sleep. I can’t focus on anything if that music is playing, I just want to leave the area. Although that is true with the other types of music in this category as well.