[concord]

>>sometimes I feel good, sometimes I feel used<< Alicia Keys' "Fallin'"

Composed
I decided to try and make up a song. Not just improvise and forget the developing melody, but write down what I was playing. While I played, I tried to make the melody mirror every note that I sang. Upon trying to reproduce the piano hook in Alicia Keys' song, I discovered that the song itself doesn't depend on the background music, but on the singer's voice and the song lyrics. Consider how a song sounds sans singer (Karaoke, instrumental track on cassettes, etc.). Now, of course, there's a lot of music that's more complicated (Radiohead or Dave Matthews Band), but most of the stuff on Top 40 radio has the same basic few chords or rhythm arrangement and is then looped. What makes the song notable is its lyrics and, obviously, how good it sounds--aurally pleasing? yes ma'am.

So perhaps that's how life is as well. The same sound looped over and over, but a distinctive, or better said, successful lifestyle is determined by a person's talent, ingenuity, individuality, etc.