I really like listening many kinds of music. It’s often pleasant to listen to, and I enjoy being able to sing along to the lyrics. I particularly love it when it’s faster music, like alternative hip-hop or alternative rock. I really like the band “Twenty-One Pilots”, and they pretty much embody my idea of great music. “Sum 41” and “Blink-182” are also great, though they tend to go a bit louder and harder, as they do much more rock music. My dad really enjoys music and prefers them, partly because they were more popular and prevalent back when he was young.
I also like songs from “Twisted Sister”, a heavy metal band, particularly their song “We’re Not Gonna Take It” since it’s such a freedom loving song, and gets your blood moving, but, unfortunately, after listening to a few more of their songs, they get rather repetitive, rather quickly. Another heavy musician I like is Peyton Parrish, who does a lot of Norse and Viking inspired songs, as well as metal versions of song that really shouldn’t have metal versions.
One of my favorite things in the world, though, is comedy. It’s not particularly easy to make a humorous song, which makes it so impressive that “Weird Al” Yankovic is able to make many hilarious songs. They’re often hilarious on their own, but what makes them even funnier is the fact that they’re always parodies of other songs, meaning the music is the same, but he changes the lyrics to make fun of the original. My favorites, and some of his most famous, are “Amish Paradise” a parody of “Gangsta Paradise”, and “White and Nerdy” which is a parody of “Ridin’ Dirty”. All of his songs are hilarious, and I highly recommend listening to all the bands and songs I reference here. I also love “A Bad Lip Reading” who are really bad at reading lips, and make songs based on random media ranging from “Star Wars” to “The Walking Dead” to real politicians.
Along with all of these specific artists who I love listening to, I enjoy most music I listen to. I don’t really like slow music, or mournful music, as I like to be able to tap my feet out to the music, not hang my head to listen to sad songs, or ignore slow background music. I like being able to focus on the music, not leaving it off as a background element, which is why I love the hip hop of “Twenty-One Pilots”, and I like each song being at least somewhat unique, which is the alternative part of it.
I often listen to music in the car, with the songs that are playing being some random album that my dad has found either at the edges of his memory or from the edges of the internet, and while they’re normally rather good, there’s often some song or other that I don’t like. I normally get to listen to the ones I’ve talked about here whenever I can convince my little brother to listen to them during the evening. He mostly likes to watch the music videos, which is fine by me as they’re often entertaining.
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