music & traditions

Music & Traditions

 Music has always been a very important aspect of my life. If you read my last blog entry, you know why, so I will refrain from going on yet another tangent about it. My music taste changes as much as I change my clothes, so I do not really have many set songs for set traditions. However, there are a few worth mentioning. 

Let me preface this next paragraph by saying I have never seen a single Twilight movie, and nor have I read any of the books. Sorry to whomever that may devastate, I will get to them eventually (maybe...). On August 31st of this year, my brother got married to his girlfriend of 8 years, Brenna. Both Chandler (my brother) and Brenna are extremely special people in my life. Chandler has always been the best big brother, and Brenna stepped up to be the best big sister that my blood sister failed to be. I wasn't in the actual wedding, but I got to be in charge of the music. I felt special because what is a wedding without music. The song everyone walked out to was a song from Twilight, called Turning Page. I have no idea what happens when Turning Page plays in the actual movies (I assume a wedding?), but now every single time I hear it while scrolling on TikTok or whatever else, I start to tear up. It was genuinely the most beautiful, but small, and special wedding I have ever been to. I have linked the song below, as well as a few pictures from the wedding simply because I love Chandler and Brenna so much and want to show them off haha. 

On a sillier and less sappy note, there is one song I like to annoy my family, specifically my mother, with every single Christmas. Well not exactly on Christmas, more so when I help her decorate the tree. As some backstory, in fifth grade I discovered rock music. I thought it was the coolest thing ever. So much so, that when I would be moody and sassy (as bratty 10-year-olds do), my mom would literally ground me from listening to a particular band I used to love, My Chemical Romance. She thought all this "angry music" was what was causing me to be a brat and looking back at it I don't think that was the reason, I think that was just who I was at the time LOL. That is also such a silly thing to be grounded from, I really wonder if that is an original experience for me. But anyways, My Chemical Romance has a cover of the beloved Christmas tune, "All I Want for Christmas is You". At one point during the Christmas season of fifth grade, I remember purposefully playing it while decorating the tree and acting clueless as to what band it was. She in fact did NOT enjoy my song choice. She kept going on and on about how awful it was, and I found her annoyance amusing. Now I play it every single year while decorating. Honestly, I think she is warming up to it. I don't know why she wouldn't, she listened to way "angrier" sounding stuff when she was a teenager, such as Pantera and Skid Row. I linked the cover down below. Though this is slightly embarrassing for me to listen to now (depending on who I am around), little 10-year-old me thought I had discovered the most amazing thing ever. I also included a picture of my mama and I last Christmas, just because.

Thank you for reading my blog! I cannot wait to hear of any feedback you may have, and to read your musical traditions as well. 

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