Seashell Sforzando

When I was growing up, most of the music that I listened to was country music because of my location and the type of family that I grew up in, and the song for country music that became popular in 2004 was Mr. Mom by Lonestar with this cute cartoon video of a Dad who realizes that the work a mother puts into raising her children. Back when we were first starting to introduce the concept of having a stay at home father.

I next would come to mostly listen to female country music artist power anthems like Carrie Underwood's Before He Cheats. Many artists on the radio before were male. Carrie really set up the stage for females to start taking more precedent in the country music scene. I wanted to pretend I really was poking holes in some cheating man's car.

I soon within a year started to listen to more pop music because of what classmates would show me was popular in school at the time. The big hit that came out in 2006 when I was wearing my hoodie with the zipper only halfway up even if I was chilly because you were lame if you had it zipped to the top was Fergalicious. She made it where we all wanted to walk around with giant lollypops from the candy store and taught us how to spell delicious so much so that the word had to be removed from spelling bees.

I was a cheerleader and twirl girl when I was younger and one of the popular artists that we would perform our cheer and baton routines to was the princess of pop: Britney Spears. Her dancing made it where girls groups would constantly try to come up with moves to her songs and coordinate them together in a faux famous girl group.

2013 was the days of coming out of my childhood and everything I knew from the past became different. I used to love Miley Cyrus as Hannah Montana when I as a kid, but then Miley was disowning herself from Disney and swinging through the air. It represented growing up and changing while not caring what other people think about that change.

When I got to college, I started branching out from just listening to the music that was popular releases. I became more about the emo and punk/alternative scene, coming to the realization that I no longer like music that was considered "basic" any longer. The type of friends that I had changed quite a bit from the people I used to hang around in grade school.

The emo music was not a phase as what I listened to went deeper into this genre type. Everything I listened to was emo pop, emo rock, emo rap, etc. If it had the word emo in front of it, I was going to listen. This is the time when I was listening to a good bit of Lil Peep. It was a time of life reflection as many people do when they start coming out of their early twenties.

I wanted to listen to more than just the completely sad songs and wanted some aggression by my later years in the midst of graduating from college. I finally found the perfect mix of everything I have ever loved. It's alternative, it is aggressive like Before He Cheats, and it is exciting, dominant music. Ashnikkko's song toxic really bring my music choices full circle with the Britney Spears type beginning. Her song Deal With It is something I always like to sing whenever someone tries to tear me down from my own self-confidence.