Ya, I just love music.

To benefit my grade in this class I wish I felt the same way about writing or reading.

I love music, the way it makes me feel and all that good stuff. Pretty much the same reason that everyone else enjoys it.

I haven't had a chance to discover much music the last couple months, seeing how the school uninstalled my Limewire. Some would call me a hipocrit because I participate in file sharing and I have a love for music and artists. Others realize I'm a broke freshmen.

Well my taste in music has changed drastically over the years. The only musical influences I had as a child were classics such as Pink Floyd, the Beatles, Donnovan, Abba, Johnny Cash, The Rolling Stones and other artists. I can remember my father playing records on our record player and I loved it. He'd tell me all the fun facts about each artist and quiz me about it later. I'm so jealous the decades he got to live through and the concerts he was able to see.

As other girls were listening to N'Sync or Brittney Spears in elementary school, I was proud to say I listened to Snoop Dogg and Puff Daddy because I had two older brothers in high school at the time.

Many people and events influenced what I listened to. As I went to church more with my mom I started listening to cheesy-poppy-christian music. A year in my life I would like to forget is the year I listened to country music. Not real country like Johnny Cash or folk or blue grass, because all that rocks, but more like twangy-lovey-carhart-big-diesel-truck country. I'm so ashamed.

In middle school I went through a HUGE Eminem phase, but who didn't. I liked R&B and rap and what I thought was hard core like The Used. In High School I realized I wasn't a badass and started really finding out what types of music I liked and why I liked them. I realized that every guy I dated was a music fanatic just like me and each one was older and wiser and taught me lots.

Today I still love what I grew up on with many more additions.