Thank you for the Music (65)

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Thank you that I have a deep appreciation for music.

Thank you that any noise can become music if applied correctly.

Thank you that I can tell the difference between music and noise.

Thank you that I like Indian pop music.

Thank you that someday I will probably know what Indian instruments are called.

Thank you that we have music from the 1800s, and we just get to keep accumulating it.  We lose some, but we never lose all of it. We just get more.

Thank you for singing. Singing is beautiful. Thank you for belting.  Male and female.  Sometimes it grates on my ears, but other times it just about brings me to tears.

Thank you that some music rhymes, and other music doesn't.

Thank you for the people who have beautiful, powerful voices that can strike you straight to the center.  Thank you that I can listen to people with beautiful voices whenever I want. 

Thank you for the way it sounds when a male belter and a female belter get together and sing a verse alone, and then come together for the chorus. I love that more than just about any other sound.

Thank you that sometimes belters do not belt as much as they could.  I am grateful that so few people have hit the money note.

Thank you for Grooveshark.  Thank you that I have 819 songs that I love so far on Grooveshark and that I know there are many more to come.  I looked it up for a guitar player I was writing about and there are between 40,000 and 450,000,000 chords you could construct on a guitar.  We have all these songs and they are so catchy, but we will keep on getting new ones. And that's amazing.

Thank you that we live in a world where people can write more than 819 songs. And they are all different. And they are all beautiful....Well, most of them are beautiful.  I don't consider the ones that aren't beautiful 'music' so they wouldn't count for this post.

Thank you for the poppy 80s tunes.

Thank you for Don't You Forget About Me at the end of the Breakfast club.

Thank you for Acappella. Thank you for that Les Mis Medley I did in highschool with Mr. Signor.  He made acapella stand out to me.

Thank you for jazz songs with the flute and saxophone.  The flute and the saxophone are epic combinations.  Thank you for the time I went to that jazz combos concert and got lost in the music, even though Company in high school could have ruined jazz for me.

Thank you that the Company class I took in high school didn't ruin jazz for me.

Thank you for violin music.  Thank you for super super fast violin players.  And electric violins. Electric violins are awesome. Thank you that I am starting to have a greater appreciation for violin music, even though it woke me up in the morning growing up.

Thank you that I cannot stand the songs from Cinderella anymore, because my little sister Holly used to play Bippity Boppity Boo every single morning and wake me up with it in New Hampshire.  And when she wasn't playing Bippity Boppity Boo every single morning to wake me up in New Hampshire she was little and in Utah, and she used to watch Cinderella all the time. And Heidi would watch Slipper and the Rose.  I would get so so sick of Cinderella.  My children will probably never ever get to watch Cinderella because of this, and I am grateful for that. Because while Cinderella is a classic, it is also not the best Disney movie, or the best Disney story. And my banhammering their watching Cinderella may cause them to watch it in college and develop a deep lasting joy, and there are far far worse things they could rebel against me by doing than watching Cinderella, or listening to Cinderella.  Thank you for the word banhammering, it is not a real word, but it is still fun. 

The same thing goes for Mary Poppins, and its music.  Thank you.

Thank you for the time I went to the broadway version of Mary Poppins and loved it, even though the movie has been forever ruined, and I fell asleep during part of the musical.

Thank you that I love showtunes.  It is so fun to love showtunes and to be into showtunes.  Broadway combines story with music, and it gives drama more heart.

Thank you that watching Les Mis in the theater made me cry.  Sometimes it's nice to cry.

Thank you that I played the flute for the years that I did, even though I quit.

Thank you that I played the piano for the years that I did, even though I quit.

Thank you that I had music major roommates like Amber Dawn and Cami.  Cami who sang beautifully and Amber Dawn who played the drums.

Thank you so much for Amber Dawn who played the drums.  I hope she is so happy right now.  I will always love the drums because of Amber Dawn. I will always love drummers because of Amber Dawn. I will always have a greater appreciation of beats because of Amber Dawn.

Thank you for that beats propel you through life.

Thank you that there are beats in everything.  Not just music.  Thank you that I sometimes find those beats.

Thank you that while Smash's storylines are subpar, and the characterization is very shoddy, the music is ammmaaaazinngggg.

Thank you for the way that music somehow connects to emotions.  I don't really understand how that works.  But it's beautiful how it does.  Thank you that everything is connected in this way.

Thank you that my family is so musical.

Thank you for my cousin Bryson's voice.

Thank you that my brother plays weird instruments like the hammered dulcimer and the accordian.  Very few girls can say this about their brothers.

Thank you that while Glee fails even worse than Smash, it also has lots of great music.  While Glee is lost in its filth, somehow the music still remains pure.  And that is beautiful.

Thank you so much for musicals.  

Thank you for adaptations of musicless movies that are turned into musicals. Like Legally Blonde, and Wedding Singer.  Thank you for the music from Wedding Singer.

Thank you for Tick Tick Boom.  I do not know why I can relate to a struggling thirty year old going through a midlife crisis. But I can.  And it's wonderful.

Thank you for Sondheim, and how the music keeps going and it's incredibly deep and it has stories underneath it somehow.

Thank you for the people who share their music on youtube, and sound good.

Thank you for musical parodies like Beauty and the Beat.  Or that video where the founding fathers are singing that it's too late to apologize.  Thank you for the humor found in music and the way it so often makes me laugh.

Thank you for the way that music helps the memory.  Thank you for those little songs that they teach children so that they can remember the presidents in school.  Thank you for songs that teach even when you don't realize that they do.

Thank you for things like Fantasia where they put images to classical music.

Thank you for princesses that sing.

Thank you for people who make fun of princesses who sing.

Thank you for soul music.  Thank you for Megan Hilty's rendition of I'm Going Down.

 Thank you for the way that it harmonizes and blends together.

Thank you for the way Fiona Apple gets me through heart break.

Thank you for the way Mumford and Sons always has a song that captures what I'm writing.

Thank you for the people who can write music.

Thank you that there is still so much for me to discover with music.