Most people in the US like most types of rock and country. Not everyone, though. I’m one of those people. Instead of those three above, I like Christian, classical, and film score music.
My favorite producer writes plenty of Christian songs. His name is Toby Mac and I like to sing along with his songs. I can do this because he sings in my range, and along with that, I can relate to some of the problems he sings about. Basically, in general, Toby Mac is the guy I aspire to be when I grow up.
When I listen to Christian music, I get a feeling that everything’s going to be okay, even though I know, way down deep, that it’s never really going to be okay. It also makes me feel happy, though I don’t exactly know why.
As a genre, most Christian music is encouraging, giving hope to people who have lost it. I especially like it because it contains my love language, which just so happens to be words of affirmation. This, in plain terms, means that I like being praised and it makes me feel loved to be given applause and praise. This allows at least a couple songs to give me a feeling of being loved.
The reason I first got involved in PER was because Mom just pulled it up one day, as she was already familiar with it. I asked what channel this was, and asked her if she had it bookmarked, which she already did. I slowly got hooked, starting to like it more and more, when You Speak Life played. That finished me off. So whenever the car comes out for a trip, the number one channel is 90.5 PER.
The second most common channel is a tie between Dad’s country music, and Mom’s not-often-listened-to classical. Despite this, I like classical as a flowing, easy listening music that is simple and calms me down. Sometimes I play it myself on our piano, but most of the time I like to just turn on the radio, tune into a classical channel like 80.5 and just sit there and listen for a while. I suspect that sometimes she turns it on on her computer as we’re doing school, so she can listen and play her games.
Last but not least, I think my least of favorites, but not the lowest of songs, is film score music. I think that the makers and producers of these songs are absolute geniuses in the ways of music. They manage to take a simple theme and jam adventure, boldness, sadness, pain, happiness, cheerfulness and power all into a few notes that go along with what is being played onscreen! They know that not just the ears hear music, but the heart does too, and they use this to make the listener cry, or laugh, or smile, by just listening to the song played. I can think of a mass of examples of memorable songs from movies, such as Concerning Hobbits and Misty Mountains Cold (Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit), He’s a Pirate (Pirates of the Caribbean), Star Wars Main Theme, and Hedwig’s Theme (Harry Potter). These very common pieces of music are all examples of Film Score music. On Pandora music, the station Gladiator, Battle/Film Score Music is normally where it is.
Overall, my three favorite music genres are just about the same as Mom’s and Aden’s, and the favorite genres are Christian, Classical, and Film Score.
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