In love with music…

Before I start the topic of this post, I wanted to let you’ll know that the winning song from my poll is In God’s Hands from Nelly Furtado. It was actually a tie, between the Nelly Furtado-song and All My Life from Krezip, but I choose for In God’s Hands, because it’s just a nice, relaxing and beautiful song to sing. So thanks everybody for voting!
And as a supplement to my last topic about “Taking authority”: I had a class a few days later, and the teacher said that it’s ok if people don’t want to say anything. It’s ok to just observe… I smiled, because that was such a confirmation on what I heard in the other class.
But what I want to talk about today is music. Music is one of my biggest passions and equals air to me. If I didn’t have music, or if I were unable to sing, life would be terrible. When I’m down I know which song to pick that’ll make me happy again. But sometimes it’s also good to listen to sad songs, because most of the times the sad songs are the songs that are the most beautiful ones and that cut right through your heart. I want to discuss some of my favorite music styles and artists.
I love all kinds of music styles, but two styles I absolutely adore are musical and soul. Musical cuts just through my soul and there’s so much emotion in it. I have been to a lot of musicals. The musicals I went to this year were Dirty Dancing and Ciske de Rat (a Dutch musical). Don’t laugh at me, but at the moment a musical starts I get really emotional because a musicals are so beautiful! Musicals are able to make me feel so happy! Hate it when it’s over… My favorite musicals are Aida and Cats. The former because it’s about an impossible love (always a favorite subject of mine), and the latter because of the amazing choreography. I like all musicals, but especially the more dramatical musicals; I prefer them over feel good musicals.
Another music style I mentioned is soul. With soul I mean also blues, jazz and gospel. This music is also able to hit the right spot emotionally. I don’t have a lot of soul music, but I love Aretha Franklin, Joss Stone and Christina Aguilera’s Back to Basics, especially the song I’ve Got Trouble because it’s an old-sounding blues song.
One of my favorite new artists is NewWorldSon (NWS). I saw them for the first time at the Flevo Fest last August and they were the surprise of the whole festival. It’s a Christian band and their style is a mix of (black) gospel, soul, blues, hiphop, beat box, etc. It’s that kind of band that is at its best on stage. That’s the only disadvantage about this band; therefore the CD sounds less better than their life performances. When I saw them in August, everybody was going crazy and although the performance was in a big tent, it felt like a juke joint (jazz club). If you want to see a performance by them, check the video below:

So these are a couple of my favorite artists. I’ll probably tell more about favorite artists another time…

Love,
DutchGirl

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