By: Felipe Senra Barros and Gabriel Sarubi (Grade 4)

Music has existed since the primordials of time. Ballads, symphonies or folkloric songs, music is art, like a plethora of fairies that inundate our ears with magical sounds. Do you listen to music? If you said “yes”, this article is for you. If your answer was “no”, let us try to convince you otherwise and prove how music can be good for you!

I bet there are some artists that are impossible you hadn’t heard of: Kanye West, Eminem, The Weeknd… the list is boundless!

A big singer from the 2010s was Justin Bieber. With hits like “Let me love you”, “Baby” and “One”, his songs, alongside his beauty, he charmed everyone at the time.

We bet you our last ounce of seriousness you’ve already heard about Taylor Swift. Her success is considered as relevant as Beatlemania and the “Thriller” era. Currently a billionaire because of her “Eras Tour”, she’s breaking multiple records with all her 11 billboard-topping albums.

Both of these singers share a hefty similarity: an overenthusiastic fanbase to veneer them. The reason? Identification. Justin was a lovey-dovey teen, and actually he captivated a legion of girls at the time. Girls, have you ever had the canonic experience of falling in love with Bieber?

Swift, notwithstanding singing dance-y bops, also collects a list of songs with deep, idiosyncratic lyrics. “I was so ahead of the curve, the curve became a sphere” (from this is me trying), “Now you hang from my lips like the Gardens of Babylon” (from cowboy like me) and “No one sees when you lose when you’re playing solitaire” (from Dear Reader) are some example of lyrics that creates an invisible string between her and her fans.

Evidently, music weaves a giant web, connecting people that feel the same way as you to something way bigger: a community, where relating to a song isn’t being vulnerable, but something understandable. Music unites us! Unites me with everyone that feels the same way as me! And we hope everyone can find some community where they belong.

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