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Strong Enough
I almost have to laugh at myself when I'm playing guitar and a chord change just does something to me that makes me want to burst into tears.
I need to be in the music industry! Music isn't just something I love, it's a HUGE part of who I am, and frankly I'm kind of mad at myself that it took this long for me to figure out just how huge that part is.
I think people who are Hanson fans are all sort of this way to some degree. I think we latched on to them eleven years ago because there was something about "MMMBop" we just couldn't escape even if we had wanted to.
But we didn't even want to, because somehow we knew that "MMMBop" meant freedom, even then.
We know it does now because it allows us to be out of the ordinary. We have been given something that we will not abandon just because someone else doesn't understand it. And some of us may have never had the opportunity to go against the grain because of our introverted personalities.
Their story is remarkable and even when we're bitching about the fact that they never get enough recognition for being as amazing as they are (Does anyone besides us know who the youngest Grammy nominated songwriter is?), we wouldn't really want it any other way.
Because we have this part of us that makes us unique. We appreciate beauty, truth, and greatness where it is otherwise unrecognized. And I don't think any of us has ever been too keen on sharing that with the masses.
They make us proud of our generation in a time when the rest of the world looks down on us. They make us hopeful for change. They make us realize that there are things in life that are worth holding on to, no matter how much crap you have to take for it through the years. They make us believe in ourselves and know that life is worth all the hardships because if you're strong enough to face them, if you're strong enough to break, you'll be whole again in the end.
touchedI need to be in the music industry! Music isn't just something I love, it's a HUGE part of who I am, and frankly I'm kind of mad at myself that it took this long for me to figure out just how huge that part is.
I think people who are Hanson fans are all sort of this way to some degree. I think we latched on to them eleven years ago because there was something about "MMMBop" we just couldn't escape even if we had wanted to.
But we didn't even want to, because somehow we knew that "MMMBop" meant freedom, even then.
We know it does now because it allows us to be out of the ordinary. We have been given something that we will not abandon just because someone else doesn't understand it. And some of us may have never had the opportunity to go against the grain because of our introverted personalities.
Their story is remarkable and even when we're bitching about the fact that they never get enough recognition for being as amazing as they are (Does anyone besides us know who the youngest Grammy nominated songwriter is?), we wouldn't really want it any other way.
Because we have this part of us that makes us unique. We appreciate beauty, truth, and greatness where it is otherwise unrecognized. And I don't think any of us has ever been too keen on sharing that with the masses.
They make us proud of our generation in a time when the rest of the world looks down on us. They make us hopeful for change. They make us realize that there are things in life that are worth holding on to, no matter how much crap you have to take for it through the years. They make us believe in ourselves and know that life is worth all the hardships because if you're strong enough to face them, if you're strong enough to break, you'll be whole again in the end.
