“You have been invited to contribute to a podcast series entitled, The Music Playing in Me. The series will explore the importance of music in the lives of individuals. Write the text for the podcast in which you: reflect on the importance of music in your life, discuss some of the particular pieces of music (songs, albums, etc.) that make up the soundtrack to your own life and share the thoughts and feelings this music evokes in you.”
Hello everyone! Good morning to all my listeners, from Dublin to New York, from London to Sydney. Welcome back to another episode of The Music Playing In Me, brought to you by Today FM.
In today’s episode, we have a special guest all the way from Donegal explaining how music is an important factor in their life. Please welcome Hannah.
Thank you Mairead for giving me this opportunity today to explain to everyone tuning in this morning how music has an essential factor in my life. In the first seventeen years of my life, I have relied on music to be there for me during tough times and happy times. Music is always there for me when I feel down or when I am feeling happy. I use music as a way to express how I am feeling and what I am doing. Everywhere I go, music follows, for example, when I am at a Gaelic football or rugby match, with the national anthem. When I am at a match or watching it on television, I get to see the emotion of what it feels to the players to sing the national anthem when they are representing their county or country. I also use music as a way to motivate me when I am doing any homework or studying in my bedroom.
Music has played a big part in my life and it will continue to play a huge part in my life. One of the songs that have made me have great satisfaction in completing a task is ‘Greastest day’ by Take That. The one line that makes this song stand out more than others is the opening line, “Today this could be, the greatest day of our lives”. I feel that I can achieve anything in one day if I put my mind to it. Now before I continue, I would like to play the first verse of ‘Greatest Day’, sung by Take That.
“Today this could be, the greatest day of our lives Before it all ends, before we run out of time. Stay close to me, Stay close to me, Watch the world come alive tonight, Stay close to me”
Welcome back to ‘The Music Playing In Me.’ I hope you liked that small break to listen to one of my favourite songs. Before I finish this episode, I want to talk about how music evokes feelings in me. The feelings that music brings out in me are happiness, sadness and even anger.
I listen to these types of songs when I am feeling them. These feelings come from what kind of day I am having or what events I attend. One of the most recent events I attended was an Ed Sheeran concert last year in Croke Park. After the concert, I listened to a new artist called Maise Peters. I love going to concerts because I get exposed to new music that I can enjoy while I’m doing my homework or on a long road trip with my family.
That is all for today. I hope you have enjoyed my small presentation on how music plays such an influential part in my life and that I hope you can all use music in a similar way to me. Music plays a huge part in my life, it motivates me and gives me satisfaction after completing the tasks that is asked of me as a fifth-year student in Donegal.
Thank you all for listening in this morning. Now I will hand it back over to Mairead to close this episode of The Music Playing In Me.
Thank you Hannah for that outstanding talk about how music plays such a big part in everyone’s life and how it can evoke emotion out of us. That’s all we have got time for today folks, tune in next week for another episode of The Music Playing In Me brought to you by Today FM.