Singing Magic

In case you didn't know it, I am a huge Sarah Mclachlan fan. Well, I'm not the stalker type or anything, but I really love her music.

I have to say that my favourite songs of hers are 'Do What You Have to do' and 'Possession'. When I was first writing songfics, I could hardly see my way through to writing songfics to anything other than her work. I think she's so great!!

I have to say that I used to see her music videos on T.V. when I was a teenager, and I got so sick of 'Angel', I wanted to die. She got so overplayed that I honestly believed that I didn't like her as an artist.

But when I got out of that bubble that is teenagerhood, and past that time where I realized what part of a person's gut angry music comes from. I guess it was my experiences that made me appreciate the beauty of her lyrics and the sweetness of her voice. I have mostly worked stressful jobs in my adulthood, and listening to her while at work really soothed me. Plus, I didn't feel like I was listening to crappy gentle rock that still includes Michael Bolten ... ew. Even if I wasn't paying attention to her lyrics and was instead focussing hard on my job, after listening to her albums over and over again - the words finally reached me - and I found out that I really liked her music and that I was slowly calming down.

It must be amazing to reach a person on that level ... and especially to help relax them when they're drawn tight as a wire strung between venitian blinds. I would like to be able to do that with my writing, but I don't think I've reached that state of continual serenity within myself yet. I'm still angry, angsty, and holding only the energy that a young woman who hasn't quite found the exact path she wants to follow yet. Plus, I write suspense, so there isn't much chance I'll get fluffy any time soon ... still soooo angry.

Yeah, and I still don't like 'Angel' - I always used to skip it.