My Playlist, My Self

If you ever feel like wanting to get to know someone better, listening to their music might help. Everyone listens to music and sometimes, listening to their playlist can help you understand and get to know them better.

I Got A Boy – Girls’ Generation – Hip Hop, Dance
Someday – U-Kiss - Ballad
Click Me – Zion.T ft. Dok2 – R&B, Hip Hop
Closer – Taeyeon - Ballad

For me, music is essential. I always listen to music whenever I can. It’s a way for me to relax and have fun. It’s also relieves stress for me. Although we live in the U.S and we have great music here, I usually listen to KPOP. KPOP is Korean Pop. KPOP includes all different genres together including pop ballad, R&B, rock, dance-pop, electronic, hip-hop, etc. KPOP artists consist more of music groups than solo artists. In each group, members range from 3 to 13 members. Because there are more music groups, they have choreography too.  On stage, they dance and sing. Although it’s in a different language that I don’t understand, I still like it. In my opinion, you don’t need to know what they’re saying for it to be good. That doesn’t mean I don’t like to know the meaning of the songs. That’s why I look for English Subtitles. They’re always available so you don’t feel so lost.

KPOP was something I started when I was in the Junior High. I listened to it at first because of the eye candy, but after I actually listened and got more into it, I started listening for the music. The music was important to me because I was able to sometimes relate to it with situations that I encountered. For example, the song Someday by U-Kiss talks about how sometimes things go right and sometimes things go wrong. In the end, you just have to get up and try again. The lyrics really encouraged me whenever I feel stressed to get up and try again. It’s also important to me because most of KPOP songs have choreography that goes along with it. Dancing is my favorite thing to do, so I would learn the dances to the songs. For example, the song I Got A Boy by Girls’ Generation is a mix of hip hop and rap. When I first heard this song, I was in a different country. I loved everything about it, the dance, song, music video, just about everything. As soon as I got back home, it was on constant repeat and I watched it all the time to learn the dance moves. I was able to have fun and relieve stress at the same time. I also like to sing to relieve stress. Closer by Taeyeon is a ballad that I enjoy singing to. Most of the songs on my playlist, as you can read, help me in some way whether it’s relieving stress or encouraging me. These are some of the reasons why the songs are important to me.

Because my playlist consists of two genres, you might think that I only like those two types of music but, I like many different genres of KPOP.  You also might assume that I only like KPOP but, I actually like all kinds of music. I’m pretty open to listen to anything but prefer to listen to KPOP. You also might think that I probably like to sing and dance according to my playlist. That one is actually true. Also, you might assume that I change my mood constantly to being happy to being sad. I’m actually quite the fun and happy person. I don’t like feeling down and I don’t like others feeling down either. Although through this playlist, you might not get a clear view of who I am as a person, I hope this has helped you at least learn a little bit about who I am.