SONGS- EMPOWERING YOU OR ISOLATING YOU?

Thinking about songs, and the so much wide variety that exists, from the swear-words of Eminem, hatred of Linkin park, crude reality of Shakira to the soft melodies of Norah Jones- songs do have a great impact on our lives! The question I want to address here is, do songs help us to stay happy or do they mock our situation and make us mourn more, only to push you deep dark into the woods? Song has a rhythm attached to it which again has a different impact altogether but we will consider song as a combination of lyrics and rhythm to bring about the complete impact.

I see young minds transforming into the next cults, just cuz they heard an Eminem song playing next door and started hating their country, surroundings and situations. Or a girl hating her parents even more, after hearing a Linkin park song called 'Numb' which makes her weak and shrewd! So what is it? Do songs help us aggravate our emotions? Or do they just help us embrace the reality? Do they supply us with plain stand-alone facts which cannot be reasoned down to simple emotions? Or do they help us to relieve us out of our pain and just let us accept the times with open heart?

The answer to this question is a little complex. I think songs are just means of expressions, used by the poet to make us believe what he/she wants us to and not what we need to. It depends on a person's perspective off course, but few songs do kill that perspective and lets us believe what it wants us to.

Recently a very good friend of mine explained me the dual meanings of the song 'November Rain by guns and roses'. Following its two meanings, one of the meaning talks about hope & forgiveness while the other talks about pain and loss. The worry here is, if you are stuck in the same situation as the one described by the song, then which path would you choose? Would you stick to the first meaning, win your love back and hope to spend the rest of your life holding hands together? Or choose the later, to mourn over the loss and cry for the rest of your life in his/her memory? That is how songs

splurge a wave of positivity or negativity inside us. I believe, the later holds a larger share. None of us can deny that negativity affects us in a much more broader way compared to a stream of healing positivity.

But then comes the question of whether to hear such songs or not? To my belief, listening to such songs is never a problem since you are widening your experiences in life. But the point it starts to seed a problem in your life, is the time you need to draw the line and say, "This is it! I can't allow a song to decide my destiny and change the notions about my loved ones and surroundings".