11/02-Choose a poem and reflect...

I chose Bad Habits by Maxwell. Everyone has bad habits, but sometimes it's the pleasure that you receive from it that make you repeat them. The piece helps me relax but it also gives me much too think about in my own personal life. The instruments used in the song are so various that I am hearing all of my different emotions when I listen to it. In it, he sings, "I can't control the feeling" and this sentence is echoed a few times after that. I feel like those are my feelings that he is singing about. That is how I am feeling at this time in my life. I feel like there are feelings that I have no control over at times and I wonder if I ever will. (no negative feelings, don't be alarmed). His words express sincerity and a longing for forgiveness. Sometimes you know that something is wrong, but you do it anyway because you want it to be right. That's what I get from listening to his words in the song. I definitely feel that poetry is a moving and expressive artform that is extremely underrated. The pitch of his voice in the intro just brings you to a different zone when you hear it. His singing throughout the song seems to have an uplifting mood. He sings in an alto tone during most of the song so you feel relaxed when you listen to it. Yet his lyrics are so evocative that you are alert to his message in the song when you listen. Music and poetry coincide (in some cases) and I felt that this song fit the bill.