Music. Everybody knows and listens to music willingly or not, you hear it on the radio, you hear it while walking down the street coming from a house or a car, you even hear it coming from another person’s lips when they have a song stuck in their head for days. The thing is music is everywhere, and it is so different everywhere you go but at the same time unifying. There are so many music genres such as rock, pop, classical, so many that you can’t even count and they vary everywhere you go, and that’s so beautiful because everybody listens to music independently from where it come from or where it’s made. Here in Italy, for example, we listen to so many different types of music such as American, English ,French ,Korean, even Jamaican and we enjoy it without bothering about where it comes from. In my opinion music is far more unifying than any language we could ever speak or try to learn because, even without knowing the words or understanding the language we still enjoy it ,together with millions of other people. Music is probably the most universal thing you may listen to in your entire life, because no matter who wrote it, where, and when it’s still here and we keep on making more because nobody will ever be tired of it, for it takes no effort to listen to because it’s not a language you have to learn ,you just have to feel the melody and enjoy every second of it. Yeah, everybody has their own taste, clearly, so you mighty not like every genre but there will always be at least one style, even just one artist that you love listening to, together with so many other people, and at a concert or even in a coffee shop playing on the radio that one song you love, you’ll be in your element with so many people that understand you and your love for that one song. In that moment singing the song or staying completely in silence just vibing with the music you’ll understand how unifying music can be, how you can feel completely at peace and in perfect harmony with complete strangers you’d never seen before, more than with maybe a friend you’ve known your whole life, that’s how powerful music can be. You can be able to speak all the languages in the whole world but it will never compare to how music makes you feel when you listen to it, with people that love it as much as you, because speaking a language that’s not your own ,or even your own, means you have to pay attention to the grammar, to the pronunciation so you’ll never enjoy it as much as you wish and still, even knowing languages other than your own won’t make that language feel like your own, you won’t feel that spark you feel while singing a song at the top of your lungs, getting all the words wrong but still feeling so happy because you know nobody is judging you. Music, in my opinion, is by far the only eternal thing in this world because everybody loves music and we won’t stop making it. People say it is so important that when a ship is drowning the band keeps on playing, because it is what keels people calm and at peace even in terrible moments.
Singing, dancing, even playing an instrument they are all things that keep you connected with so many people all around the world, and it doesn’t matter if you’ll ever meet each other because you will always have that special link that you only have trough music and nobody can take it from you, because music is something that reaches your heart in so many different ways, it’s almost like it leaves somewhat of a sign on it.
In conclusion, I believe that music is its own language and it’s far more important than any other language because it does things that nothing else in the world can, it makes you feel like it is your own song, it makes you feel and experience things as if they were your own even if a stranger across the world wrote them you are still going to feel completely linked to that person and so many other all around the globe.
So yeah to me music is by far the most universal and unifying language there is and I feel like it is something so ethereal that the world without it probably wouldn’t where it is now.
Sofia Calcagni, III C
