Spring Break
Face it -¬you're addicted to music
RJ Webb
Issue date: 10/23/08 Section: Features
Music has been in existence since the first caveman carved a hole in a mammoth bone and realized its sound was pleasant. From Mozart to emo rock, music is the one thing that everyone in the world seems to have in common. No one can deny the overall power music has on humans.
Some music lovers can't get enough of it.
But can it be deemed an addiction? Is too much of a good thing bad?
Sophomore Leigh Murphy doesn't seem to think so.
"There is only too much of the same kind; we need variety. I am currently listening to Daft Punk and there's only so much of that I can take, because all their songs sound the same sometimes," said Murphy.
With the pressures of school and work, some turn to music to relieve stress, if only for four minutes at a time. With the advancement of music technology, it has become easier to fit days worth of music into one small device. The current iPod Classic is capable of 120 GB of storage ¬-roughly 30,000 songs. This type of technology makes it easier to escape the world around you for extended amounts of time. With the storage on iPods soaring every few months, eventually you will never have to leave Narnia.
I decided to survey students on ECU's campus about their musical tastes.
The average person on campus listens to one to two hours of music a day, while those who consider themselves addicts listen to four to six hours a day.
Going to concerts is a way to satisfy the hunger for music; perhaps, though, it only allows the addiction to swell.
"Going to concerts allows me to feel a bond with the band and the music," said self-proclaimed music addict Morgan Waltston. "It is a form of rejuvenation for me, and going to a show just makes whatever is going on in my life disappear for just a couple hours."
Music addicts like to feel at one with the music, making a certain song or album a description of their summer or school year. A song can take them back years with just the sound of an intro.
Some music lovers can't get enough of it.
But can it be deemed an addiction? Is too much of a good thing bad?
Sophomore Leigh Murphy doesn't seem to think so.
"There is only too much of the same kind; we need variety. I am currently listening to Daft Punk and there's only so much of that I can take, because all their songs sound the same sometimes," said Murphy.
With the pressures of school and work, some turn to music to relieve stress, if only for four minutes at a time. With the advancement of music technology, it has become easier to fit days worth of music into one small device. The current iPod Classic is capable of 120 GB of storage ¬-roughly 30,000 songs. This type of technology makes it easier to escape the world around you for extended amounts of time. With the storage on iPods soaring every few months, eventually you will never have to leave Narnia.
I decided to survey students on ECU's campus about their musical tastes.
The average person on campus listens to one to two hours of music a day, while those who consider themselves addicts listen to four to six hours a day.
Going to concerts is a way to satisfy the hunger for music; perhaps, though, it only allows the addiction to swell.
"Going to concerts allows me to feel a bond with the band and the music," said self-proclaimed music addict Morgan Waltston. "It is a form of rejuvenation for me, and going to a show just makes whatever is going on in my life disappear for just a couple hours."
Music addicts like to feel at one with the music, making a certain song or album a description of their summer or school year. A song can take them back years with just the sound of an intro.
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