#FreedomFriday's "Music is Freedom!"

Music can just be anything, it have that power. Its' effect different per individual, also in its' usage. Can life be without MUSIC? It can be heard from the birds and the bees, from when the wind is hugging the trees, or even in the midst of a storm.

It is everywhere.

As a medium of expression, how it is created is innumerable, regardless of how many there are from an instrument to orchestras, from a song to chorals. In everyday life expressions, too many are there per emotion, occasions, person, place etc. Musical freedom is everywhere, heard and unheard.

Music is Freedom

Hurtful words can be said without thinking, and coming from a family member or a close one, it can be the most painful. But in gratefulness at the moment, what I am today can just be brought on or perhaps it had pushed me to who I am now. In my teens, it was difficult to understand, with the only option to fight back by having the motivation and the freedom to be who I was regardless of what people say.

My response, "Who you" sila sa aken. In English, who are you to me? It is but a protective mechanism.

Nosi, nosi ba lasi!

Huwag mong pansinin, ang naninira sa yo. Basta't alam mo lang, na tama ang ginagawa mo.

Translating it to: Don't let anyone bother you, so long as you're doing the right thing! Simplified.

This song came out in 1989 by Sampaguita, the queen of rock for Filipinos. This song is now a classic being sung by Filipinos who have something to prove by being themselves, to not care and show their worth.

During my teens, this was my jam on tree tops in our backyard. Getting bullied at work in London, this song emphasised more than ever my worth, a total liberation from other people's insecurities, inferiorities, bigotry and racism. It freed me from their world.

My second song is not mine, it was one of my housemate's favorites that she kept playing on and on when she left her high-paying job in London. For what's due, this is a tribute to this one great person who helped open my eyes to what is going on in the world. For without her, there would still be a wool over my eyes. She passed away a couple of years afterwards.

If you can't say it to his face?

Would anyone want to take a walk with the ex-President Bush?

Obviously he was a very busy man where the only medium to say your piece is through MUSIC. What would you have asked him? A simple question like "How many planes exactly hit New York?" Or a more personal question like "Was your brother really the head seçurity of the World Trade Center till 9/10?

Not 9/11 as he was gone by then.

One article i remember saying that this song of Pink got banned at some point in the US? It's just a POP song, would she have been killed for that? Like 2PAC perhaps?

Alice Herz-Sommer "the power of music"

One can only read her autobiography, her life story on how she survived the Nazi concentration camp, on how MUSIC transported her soul each time she played for the Germans. Her music heard by her fellow Jews gave them that moment of freedom from war that only them can understand or perhaps for some of the Germans too who hated the war.

Music saved my life and music saves me still...I am Jewish, but Beethoven is my religion.

- Alice Sommers

In her book, she heard a voice telling her to master TRISTESSE before the war. And although Beethoven as she said was her religion, Chopin freed her soul.

Apologies @eaglespirit, though it's late, i bloody tried :)