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Like I used to opine in my previous write up that music is life and that all it brings to humans is life in its fullness. The life given by music cannot actually be overemphasized as it nourishes the spirit, soul and body. But for something to nourish the spirit, the soul and the body, there must be a pattern of consumption.
Though, we have different genres of music. The way we listeners or lovers of music consume this musical matters a lot.
Atimes, the way we consume music tells if the music will have the necessary impact in our lives. For someone like me, I like to listen to all genres of music. But while listening to it, I pay rapt attention to the lyrics of the music and doing this always motivates and inspires me. Most especially when the music is sound and inspiring.
Now, back to the topic before us which has to do with understanding music consumption patterns, I would like to take it from my own perspective.
From my own perspective, there are three major patterns I have adopted in the way and manner through which I consume music and that's where my understanding is based.
The first of those patterns is my preference for the music on my musical list. My preference for good and mannered music has always helped me in my musical consumption. Like I have said several times, I don't just listen to music anyhow, I listen to music that only nourishes my spirit, soul and body and in lieu of this, my preference for good music has always been my pattern of musical consumption.
Aside this, after selecting my choice of music, which is through my preference for good and morally based music. The next thing I do is to listen to the music which is a major pattern of musical consumption. So. While listening to the music, I consume it in a way that I pay rapt attention to the wordings and lyrics of the song without being disturbed or distracted. This I have done times without numbers and it's aided my musical consumption rate.
Also, the musical trend of the time has also helped me while following my pattern of musical consumption. Though, because of my love for good music, I still listen to some music tagged to be evergreen music. But mostly, I consume those songs that are trending. Yeah! This has been one of my patterns of music consumption over the years.
Though, I only listen to good and morally supported music in vogue and not all and that's why I said, the evergreen music cannot be totally done with when it comes to my pattern of musical consumption.
This is because when some of those evergreen music are being listened to, they are as new as the messages they preached. Not only that, they are always relevant and ready for consumption anytime, anyday.
So, what's really affecting musical consumption nowadays is that of the irrelevance of the song being sung by most of the musicians. In our days back then we have musicians like 2face, Dbanj, Faze and their contemporaries. It's like another era will not come.
But here we are now, where we have new breeds of musicians that are now running their show with the trend of time. Now their songs are relevant for consumption as it was with those I have mentioned above. That's life as change is constant. But for songs to be ever relevant for future consumption as well, musicians must work hard to make their songs evergreen as this will always make their songs relevant for consumption even when they are no more.
So, my own understanding about music consumption pattern dwells on those three anchors which includes making my musical preference, listening to the preferential songs which has to be good and morally standard, and last taking cues from the songs in vogue which also have to be morally balanced and relevant for consumption. Listening to evergreen music which has not in anyways waned out with time is another way of my pattern of musical consumption.
This is my entry to the afri-inleo initiative.
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