Music

One thing about me that people quickly find out is that I love music. I listen to many different kinds and in general will listen to anything. My favorite type of music is alternative rock. Now this isn't the hard metal head banging rock that people usually think of or the goth punks. It is kind of the middle ground. It has some rock and grunge but mostly it is kind of hipster. Speaking of hipster another one of my favorite types of music is reggae. I love the Dirty Heads. I listen to them a lot when I am studying or going to bed because it is so mellow. I used to absolutely hate country until about a year ago when I started hearing it more around one of my friends. Then I moved here and our team listens to a lot of country and now it has grown on me a ton and I listen to it the most when I am studying. I always go through phases where I will be obsessed with a type of music and then move on after a couple months. In high school I loved 2000s rap and hip hop from Nelly to 50 Cent. I still love to listen to them when I am working out and doing anything active. When I was a freshman I asked my dad for tickets to a concert for my birthday. It was just a small concert but it was so much fun and I was hooked. For my 17th birthday I got to see Justin Timberlake. I loved him in his boy band, to say the least I was a fan girl and then saw him perform his Smoke and Mirrors tour. It was such an amazing concert. He had a stage that moved all around the Excel Energy Center in Minneapolis. I went to several smaller bands at a venue called First Avenue in Minneapolis. I have seen New Found Glory, Smallpools, and Neon Trees there. Usual concerts have two smaller opening bands that warm the crowds up for the headliners. These concerts are fun but nothing compares to going to a festival. I went to my first festival this past summer in Grant Park Chicago. Lollapalooza is one of the original festivals and is also one of the biggest and best that you can go to. It is three days of straight music and bands playing. Bands usually would start around 12 in the afternoon and changed every hour until ending around 12pm when the park closed. I saw over thirty different bands play in three days. My favorite had to be my favorite band Twenty-One Pilots. They have all kinds of alternative bands but also have hip hop, some rap, and even current pop music. The biggest headliners that we saw were Metallica, Florence and the Machine, The Weekend, and Paul McCartney. There were thousands of people there and it filled the entire park. There were two main stages that were about a mile apart with five other smaller stages surrounding the walk back and forth. There was a huge DJ stage, the Samsung Galaxy stage, the Bud Light Stage, and four smaller ones spread through some smaller groups of trees. This was one of the coolest experiences of my life and I get to go to another one this summer! For Christmas my parents gave me tickets to a festival in Tennessee called Bonaroo. It is a huge festival just like Lollapalooza but instead of the park closing and staying in a hotel you camp at the grounds. It is a four day festival and I am so so excited to go and see so many more amazing bands play.