DSF 028: Introduction to MUSIC Dynamics - Part I

DAYnamics Show Fundamentals 028: Introduction to MUSIC Dynamics!

We introduce a new dynamic: 'Music Dynamics' with real talk on why music can shift our mood, bring back memories, and connect strangers in seconds. We share personal examples from live performances, lyric discoveries, and even music in languages we do not understand to show how meaning is both universal and deeply personal. 

• music as a daily tool for wellbeing and emotional regulation 
• mood and context shaping how a song lands 
• why certain songs resonate through memory and identity 
• artist intention versus the meaning we create as listeners 
• the power of silence and space to let emotion land 
• how chord changes and surprises grab the subconscious ear 
• music as a universal language 

Links from the podcast:

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Singers or Bands mentioned: Metallica Master of Puppets (heavy metal) || Tragically Hip Grace, Too (look up lead singers story and this will mean more) || Dimash SOS, Dimash Ave Maria || YungBlud Changes performance || Gamma music 

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Transcript

Welcome And Daily Centering

SPEAKER_01 0:15

Hello, our dynamics community. It's your host, Marianna, here to welcome you to the Dynamics Show, where personal development meets daily life. On this podcast, we know there's one no one size fits all path in life, which is why each episode is crafted for you to align with your own dynamic self on your terms. Our journey here is filled with options, opportunities, and infinite possibilities. So let's uncover the reason you are here because you always hear what you need to and explore what is possible together. So today we are doing a discussion. It's going to be on our new dynamic, which is music dynamics. And I have the greatest pleasure to be joined by oh, I'll say it, my brother, Peter. Peter, welcome.

SPEAKER_00 1:14

Thanks for having me.

SPEAKER_01 1:16

Awesome. Peter and I really share a love of music, and we felt like this is so important to be a dynamic, because the dynamics of music in general are unlimited. And we always have that common bond around music. So again, why the subject? That is the reason why. Before we start though, I always like to set the tone because sometimes someone just turns on this and we really like to just set the tone for our time together. Because it's more than just a podcast. We are here to remind you that flowing through each one of us is a dynamic energy that is ours to use every single day. That's why the day in dynamics is capitalized. This is a daily choice to live dynamically. So let's take a moment to center ourselves with a deep breath in and out and be fully present and listen with an open heart and an open mind since we know what we focus on will expand in our life. Are you ready, audience? Because I think my brother and I are ready. Are we ready?

SPEAKER_03 2:33

We're ready.

SPEAKER_01 2:33

We're ready. Awesome. How much does uh music important to you, audience? How does it touch your soul, your emotions, your well-being, like all of that stuff? Ask yourself that question and then as we have this discussion, think about what you would answer as well. So, Peter, what do you think would make a really good music podcast? Like something that you would want to listen to, tune into, and not just listening to a

What Makes A Great Music Podcast

SPEAKER_01 3:08

song and reacting or doing whatever, breaking it down, which is something that we'll do as well at some point. But there's so much more to music. So what what do you think would be on your top as far as wanting to listen to something that says music dynamics?

SPEAKER_00 3:32

Just in general, for for being a single word, it covers so much. It's full of emotion, it's full of excitement, feelings, memories, future. There's so much that you can, you know, look into it. You can get into the meaning of something and how it touches your soul or touches you as a person, and that that could just run you into all kinds of stuff. So talking on a podcast about the things in music, it just it'd be a great fun way to explore some of the songs and how I'm sure over the course of time we'll have songs that do nothing for me and uh touch you deeply. And I'm like, Exactly. I'd be like, sorry, I just don't have that engagement with that song or what have you. But you know, the explanation of it and and talking about it would definitely be a great topic, in my opinion.

SPEAKER_01 4:27

So yeah, thank you. You're right. It's such music is such an individual thing that it's just touches people for different reasons. The the ballad or the song that brings a memory up for a a reason, or angry punk for some people, and that's but that's what moves them, you know, or could be creating new ones. Yeah, thanks for that. So we're just gonna go over a few of what we think a podcast with music could be, uh further to what Peter has already said, and some questions that we know that we'll be going over more deeply, but our first session here will always just be about the intro to music dynamics and what we think that would make a great experience for you all. So, one of the things I think we'll be talking about more will be like how does music shape the way we process emotions? The different genres and the tones and the rhythms and the influences and some examples of songs

Mood, Genre, And Live Energy

SPEAKER_01 5:32

and stuff. What do you think about that, Peter?

SPEAKER_00 5:35

Uh sure. Yeah, thanks for the question. I believe in many different ways that your your mood obviously has a lot to do with how you're gonna feel about a particular song. Like if you're really happy and super excited, you might not want to listen to your favorite ballad at that particular time. So it's gonna affect the outcome of how that song touches you and feels for you. Where I'll use an example of we were out this weekend at an event. It was it was loud, it was fun, it was it was kind of upbeat. The you know, the the band was doing a great job. Again, live music, just love it, always has a different feel for you. And the band was doing fantastic, and they were playing some songs I never heard before, which didn't matter because it just made me feel good. It did, too. It was it was very upbeat. And then there was this guy that came up and he just owned the crowd. The crowd went from having a good time to you think we're at his rave, right? It was like he just controlled everything, everyone's emotions and and and mood and excitement level just went from like six to twelve. It was like wow, like this guy's just owning this crowd. And so when he was done, it almost felt like you could breathe because, like, I mean, the whole time he was up there just doing his thing, everyone was excited, like that emotion. You could look at the crowd, and everyone's just like cheering, and he would be putting the mic out to the crowd, and everybody was singing what he was singing. It's like complete and utter hypnotists of the crowd, basically.

SPEAKER_01 7:15

Yeah, like you you were part of his energy. You're right into whatever emotion he had.

SPEAKER_00 7:22

Yeah, yeah, that 15 minutes, you did not think about anything else than that band and that man controlling that crowd and having the time of your life, and when it was over, you were just like the emotion was like, Whew, I need I need to breathe for a minute because like that was really intense and it was great. But you know, at that same time, I wouldn't have wanted to try to get in, you know, those feely type songs, and it just wouldn't be wouldn't have been the right time for it. How does music kind of work that way? I I feel a lot of times it's in the situation that you're in as well.

SPEAKER_01 8:00

Yeah, you said something really good there, the mood. It processes it different emotions based on where you're at, right?

SPEAKER_00 8:09

100%.

SPEAKER_01 8:12

So again, part of this whole thing is about just giving little things that we're gonna be talking about later. So the next one would be why do you think certain songs resonate with us more deeply than others? Peter, what do you think about that? Or feel about that?

SPEAKER_00 8:30

I could talk forever on the subject.

Why Certain Songs Hit Deeper

SPEAKER_00 8:33

I'll make it short and sweet for me is like, how does how does a song relate to you? Is it is it a memory that you had? Was it a association to something that was amazing or not so amazing in your life? Do the words in that song just write a little paragraph in your mind saying, Yep, this is me, and somehow there's somebody else singing about it, and it just strikes everything inside of you to bring you right back to that moment. Maybe you didn't have the song playing at that time, you know, for association. It's just the words in it somehow in your in your mind or in your brain or what have you, it just takes you there. And when you get there, like yeah, it it can resonate very deeply with you versus just you know having some small song that played, I'll I'll just say, you know, your top, top, pop, four, top 400 or 100 songs, yeah, stuff like that on the radio that you just like you put it on, it's just white noise in the background versus some songs, even even the first ping of the of the chord, you're like, oh, I know that song.

SPEAKER_01 9:51

You know, it just has that immediate immediate connection with you and the personalness. So thanks for that example, Peter, and and sharing how you feel about that. Uh it's going on to touch a little bit on this. Like, how do how important do you think the the story or the meaning behind a song is deepening our connection to it? So I know you touched on it a little bit. You have a song that you can use as an example of like how the the lyrical storytelling the meaning behind it makes you more connected to it.

SPEAKER_00 10:32

Or any music doesn't have to be there's again another topic we talk for hours on. Um I sometimes feel that knowing the band's intention for a song when they s when they wrote it, when they're singing it, if you know the like the absolute meaning of that song, you it might not be a relation to you, it might be a relation of of uh empathy towards them. It's like, oh, they just went through whatever, and I this song's about that. Oh, I feel I feel for them. And then there's other songs, there's there's so many songs that I've listened to and like love that song. And then I was like, I wonder what this song's even about. And it's like, oh I'm loving this song about something so hatred.

SPEAKER_02 11:31

Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 11:32

But it's like it just touched me. It didn't touch me as a uh as a negative, hateful song. It was I was like, oh, it's like, oh, I'm I'm sitting here, you know, going, yay, listen to this song, and it's like this isn't good. Again, it it touches people differently. And and so sometimes, you know, the the the meaning of the song, I'll use uh Metallica Master of Puppets, right? Love love the song, always did, and then I realized, you know, after many, many thousands of times listening to the song, had no idea what it was about, right? And it's all about drugs and how drugs control you, right? So it's so it's like I never knew that. So I'm like, like, yeah, you know, for years, and it's like, wow, this is a complete song about that. And it's like, never knew that. Did it change my mind afterwards? Um, not necessarily. Yeah, so like the song is a you know part of my thing, and then there's other songs that will use like uh tragically hip for any anyone that doesn't know who Tragically Hip is or they're they're looked them up, they're great, yeah. They're fantastic. Uh they huge uh Canadian band. They have a song, and to this day, Marianna and I have talked about this. They have a song called Grace 2, and it's something that is very big for the for that for that group. Even if you listen to the words, the band never, uh to my knowledge, have never come out and said, This is what the song is about. But it has two very distinct, if you if you break it down and you can look it up on the internet and stuff like that, there's so many people who say it's about this, and then the other people say, You're crazy, it's about this. And how important is knowing it? It has a a definite benefit uh to know what the song is about sometimes to help you connect, but also it's what does a song mean to you?

SPEAKER_01 13:22

Yeah, that's you're absolutely right.

SPEAKER_00 13:24

What does it unlock inside?

SPEAKER_01 13:26

Yeah, basically that's what it comes down to is yeah, because there's even some songs that I've been singing, certain words in a song I've been singing wrong all these years until I finally looked up the lyrics. It's like, oh, I didn't know it was that. Yeah, so is that what they were saying? Yeah, well, that changes everything. That does. It does. Yeah, but thank you. I I agree fully because sometimes it's just the song, and sometimes it doesn't matter what it means, it's the meaning you get. Yeah, what does what does it mean for you?

SPEAKER_00 13:56

So yeah, a lot of a lot of bands will also say it's like we didn't want to put out what it meant to us because we want it to unlock something in you.

SPEAKER_03 14:05

Yes, right.

SPEAKER_00 14:06

So it's like, wow, it's like that's pretty deep. Yes, right, just by itself for the band to say that. It's like, well, we know why we wrote it. Yeah. But you make your own meaning, right?

SPEAKER_01 14:15

That's that's perfect. Yeah, exactly. That goes into the next discussion point that we'll have. Can instrumental music evoke the same emotions as music with lyrics? So it's for me, I'll answer first, and then Peter, you can think about that for a second. Instrumental music can mean

Lyrics, Meaning, And Personal Interpretation

SPEAKER_01 14:37

that based on what I'm doing. Like if I'm meditating, then absolutely instrumental music because I can go on my own flow. If I'm focusing on or I'm doing creation or I'm writing a blog or any kind of resources that we do, instrumental music in the background is great because it's not confusing my thought patterns, but it's something that's soothing me. That's how I think it can be impactful based on what is it being used for? What do you think?

SPEAKER_00 15:09

I completely get that. One of the things that came to my mind as soon as you kind of asked that question is like, so why would I listen to a song that I know the words to and just listen to the instruments of it? That's the first thing that came to my mind when you said that. And then I thought to myself again, it's like, well, have you ever gone to a concert or listened to an extended play of a song?

SPEAKER_02 15:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:35

Where they kind of go in and they play a little bit, and then in the middle, there's just like, or even towards the end, they just continue to play that rhythm that in your mind you're you know, you're kind of still connected to that song. You're either singing the words in your head or something like that, or it's just like you were mentioning, it's soothing. It's like, yeah, and I know this beat. And like I it I'm not focusing on the words because there's no words here, but I know this beat, it's very instrumental. And I also thought when you kind of said it as well, I was like, if you're kind of doing something, and and you alluded to it, if you're kind of doing something where it takes a lot of mental thought, focus, yeah. Like you're trying to produce sentences, words, emotion, whatever in your in your head, sometimes there's just a white noise, right? And sometimes a nice we'll call it elevator music kind of thing, just like just nice little jingle. It's just like if it if it soothes your your rhythm, your music rhythm and stuff, like it's like, okay, then you can easily flow from that. Yes. So yeah, when I listen to all of my favorite songs, instrumental only, probably if it was in a concert version, because it'd be like there'd be more like uh excitement to it versus that instrumental, the instrument part would be key in that. Yeah, yeah, exactly, right?

SPEAKER_01 17:05

Thank you. Good feedback. Okay, audience, how are we doing? Uh, we're just checking in on the music. I'm sure you guys have your own version of some of this discussion, and we're always open to receive it. Day Namicshow.info. And please just or you can use our speakpipe that is in our contact form, and that's a verbal reply to us versus texting or emailing us. The next one that I always find we've touched on it a little bit is why do some songs make you cry while others make you want to dance? I mean, obviously that might be well, some are slow and some

Instrumentals, Focus, And Flow States

SPEAKER_01 17:47

are fast. Got that part, but why do you think, brother, that some some songs make you cry while others make you want to dance? Does it and I'll say this to my brother because I know we do this sometimes we listen to the same song over and over and over again. Yeah, and it doesn't matter. I cry the first time or the tenth time.

SPEAKER_00 18:08

Yeah. Wow, this is such a huge topic.

SPEAKER_01 18:12

And we'll get into it deeper on another podcast. Let's do the overview.

SPEAKER_00 18:18

The overview. Why do why do some songs make us cry? Well, I think the best way to approach this would be let's start with the dance. So a lot of songs that are that are high tempo, they got a good beat. It just you want to your foot starts tapping immediately, kind of puts you in a good mood. Just maybe the lyrics are fun stuff that you associate with a party or dancing, and just get tapping your foot, and you're you're you're there. You you don't want to be sad and cry, you want to, as the guy at the band on the weekend said, get your cillies out, right? And you just want to get out there and dance. And and I I I laughed really hard when he said it, and it put me in a good mood. He says, Get up here and dance and get your celllies out. And it's like, it's like, yeah, it was great. And I was I was watching our other sister, you know, she was dancing right there in the spot, and I was like, there you go. Like, it's just like the just the music itself changed.

SPEAKER_01 19:18

It makes you want to move your body.

SPEAKER_00 19:20

Yeah, it's just like I can't sit still during this, I don't even know what it is. It's almost like like natural, like it just came out and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_01 19:28

And I'll I'll say one thing on the slide there. Darren always says it's the bass. Yeah, and the bass is true. Yeah, he's like, he's like it just gets that like deep heartbeat almost.

SPEAKER_00 19:39

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And the and you know, the the drummer has the tap going, which usually your feet or your hand or something's meeting, and then the bass is kind of getting your body moving, the the electric picking out, and it's just like it just gets you excited. You're like, Yeah, I don't, I'm not in a sad mood right now or anything like that. I I I'm definitely I want to dance, and and then you have the other scale where you know someone comes out and they start singing a slow song, and you're like, Oh yeah, well, this is really emotional, or or what have you. It really touches something in your in your past, in your current life that just it, you know, it's not the happiest of things, and and just because you cry at a song isn't because it's always sad. That's right. That's right. Like I've had more emotion of a song just because of the energy. Like I'll use I played it for Marianne. I said, I said, this is this is my favorite version of this song, and favorite version being a a key word there because it's like there's so many other versions. It was a live version of Cold Plays Yellow, and I can't remember exactly what what it was, it was on Spotify under under the thing, and I just I downloaded it or was listening to it one day, and it's like this is amazing. And you know, given you know the volume up and your in your in your situation and just the way that it goes, there's a really like as they go from the intro into the song itself, and it goes from a whole different way of them playing it to the normal way that they played it, but it all kind of counts down as like a one, two, three, four, and everything drops. It's like oh wow, like that emotion that it's very emotional, but it's not sad, it's very exciting, it's very happy, but happy makes you cry as well, probably more so than sad does. That's true. You know, it's just that you know you get the goosebumps and all that stuff happening. So yeah, yeah, it has a lot to do with uh emotions.

SPEAKER_01 21:41

I know that both of us enjoy the live performance of songs, yes, you know, because especially if you see it, especially with having things like YouTube now, that you can actually watch it too, because I'm I'm a visual. It just makes me feel better that I can not only see it. And it's weird that I'm a visual, but yet I'm doing these podcasts audio, right? We'll have to do it we'll have to get on video here soon, brother. Another time. Cause then it's them seeing our emotions and our facial recognition. Seeing their hands flopping around. Exactly. So Thank you for that feedback. It can also be sad where like if I hear and I don't often hear, but if I hear a song like for instance when our dad passed and he ain't heavy, he's my brother. You know, when I hear that, which I rarely do, but if I hear it on the radio or on online, that takes me right back to the funeral. And that and it's I know it's a celebration of his life, but at that moment it was at the end, and so there was already so many emotions that were high that now when I think about it it connects me to dad and I and I have you know either cry or have tears in my eyes. But that again, like I said, is not always sad. It makes me sad because I miss him, but it it it's not necessarily a sad song, it's just because it reminds me of him, right? And it brings up the emotion around it.

SPEAKER_00 23:10

So yeah, like there's a song that I used to sing all the time when we used to be up at the camp and stuff in in our heyday, and that I can't sing now, I can't even play it because I'll just I get too emotional. And that's that's Cats in the Cradle.

SPEAKER_02 23:27

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:28

Because it's you know, it's a song about a father and a son, and how the father never had time for the son as the son was growing up, and then as the father's in the latter part of his years, and the and the son's in that moment when the father would have had like the roles have changed. He's now the one with the kids, and so much on his plate that he doesn't have time for the father, and it's just like it's like, you know what? I grown I've grown up just like you, right? So yeah, and it's just uh I can't do it anymore.

SPEAKER_01 23:57

But yeah. When you think about that, that'll bring up a whole other podcast, not about the music, but about something else that we we have resources on, is that a lot of times that's just life pattern, you know, like that that happens. Priorities are different. So okay. So we have one more on this, and then we will uh be doing another one. What role does silence or space in music play in creating emotional impact? When you hear something and then there's this like pause, it's the same as in a podcast sometimes. It's like you hear blah blah blah blah blah

Why Music Makes Us Cry Or Dance

SPEAKER_01 24:39

and then it's like a pause. It's almost like it gives you time to like reflect. It allows emotion to unfold a little bit. It it gives that space in between of words that just allows you to be one with that and then like I said, not react, but just to connect or not. If you're already listening to a song a bunch of times and there's a space or silence in it, you're like, okay. In podcasts, same thing, say something and then it's like I give that space because I know it's like an intentional pause to go, okay. I just said something a little profound, so I'm just gonna let that space for someone to process it. What do you feel about that, Peter?

SPEAKER_00 25:30

Oh, 100%, 100%. And I and thanks for opening that ad up because very often in music, not everyone kind of listens to rap because it's so fast, it's fast beat. And and some of the artists, they'll have some pretty deep hit hitting lines, and even in even in the rap, which is that fast-paced stuff, it it gives you a minute to think about that. It's like, wow, that was intense. Yes, rock bands do it all the time, especially in ballads. It's like boom, boom, boom, and then boom, and then there's usually nothing behind it other than some, you know, some instrumental, and then they pick up with either the next verse or continue into the chorus just because it's like bang. I've just I've just dropped a load of emotion on you. Yeah, process that for a second.

SPEAKER_02 26:24

Exactly. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 26:25

If tears break out, tears break out. If joy breaks out, that's your game. That's that's all you, right?

SPEAKER_01 26:30

So or just the the the complete feeling of how that resonates with your body too, right? Or mind, yeah. Yeah. I like the spaces, and again, music, podcast, other place uh speakers, you know, they they use it as well where it's just like stop, pause, silence. Okay, then let's pick that up again with something different, you know. So whether it's whatever it is, it's the silence helps me really resonate and connect with it a bit better.

SPEAKER_00 27:00

Well, it just kind of makes makes the the the listener, if there's that little stop, think think back of what they just heard. And so, well, I must be supposed to be processing something here. Yeah, right. Yeah. So if nothing else, it's kind of like I just hit you with something big, I'm gonna give you a second. Yeah, right. Here's a second, yeah. Yeah, yeah, great, uh, great, great uh topic there. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:22

Yeah, because uh you don't always recognize that it's intentional. It is it's almost like you're starting a new paragraph. You don't know always that it's there for a reason. Yeah. But but now you do. So the next one we're going to discuss is how can understanding the technical elements of music, like the chord progression or the dynamics of it, enhance the way we feel about it. Peter, I'm gonna put this to you first.

Silence And Space As Emotion

SPEAKER_01 27:54

Sure.

SPEAKER_00 27:56

There's there's music's been around as as long as there's been someone around to make it. I think there's there's something about music that your mind, like, not in your conscious, but in the like your subconscious, when you're listening to something, you're your mind already knows what should be coming next. So you like it just flows. Like that's why, like, if you listen to a really nice song and you just feel so complete when that song is just that that rhythm, the chorus, the whatever, it just you feel complete when that is over. It's almost like it it went to the way it was supposed to go. Yes, you know what I mean, and then and then every sometimes bands will do that little two-step or whatever, they'll add a little something in there that is oh, and it always catches your ear. Yes, it's like, oh, that kind of shouldn't have been there, but it was kind of cool, right? So, like we're all not like music majors.

SPEAKER_01 28:53

Yes. And congratulations for those that are exactly, you know.

SPEAKER_00 28:57

But how are we supposed how do we know that that wasn't supposed to be there? It's just it's almost like something is so deep inside of our core that it's it's it's beyond our conscious mind. It's just happening, and that's why you know some people need music as as they're balancing, and uh where where others just like I know a few people are just like, yeah, music, whatever, it's just noise, right? So it's yes. So you wonder what rhythm that they go to.

SPEAKER_01 29:22

Yes. And you can really like that's a good they're good points because there's also the the science behind all of it. And like some people are very intentional about what they're doing, especially with all the newer style of music coming with all the the AI enhancements and the this and that with some of the music that that comes out, and just like you know, I do some of the meditations, and they're they have music like you know, your different levels of of sound, you know, and then it's it's sort of under undercurrent sounds that you have. So you think about the whole understanding the technical elements of music and all the variations of music is just it varies so much now, and especially more and more all the time, that they're kind of intertwine, all this stuff, and then it's like, oh, but underneath that there's like some bibinal messages, or underneath that there's this, or underneath that there's this tone, or the technical elements of the music, not something I don't know about you, brother, but that I really care to like focus too much on or care too much about, like, because it's just the experience of it. So do you do you think like, oh, I must, I must go look to see what the science behind this is about or what the the technical elements are? Like, does it does it really matter to you that much?

SPEAKER_00 30:42

Or I'm I'm not really looking into it. I I will give some type of a reference of where my mind was, I'm not gonna say blown, but it really put things into perspective. Again, I mentioned the song from Metallica before, but Metallica did a a full concert with uh a symphony, uh San Francisco Symphony, and like the the band was sitting in with a full orchestra, and they were able to play, and it was it was it was synchronized. It was like the band didn't play anything different, like they played their song exactly how they would normally play it. Yeah, the orchestra kicked in as if like so that just tells you it doesn't it doesn't matter, like there's something bigger going on there that just all those all those hundreds of instruments were all playing the same thing, and like you know, the electric guitar screaming and and talking to you, and and you know, someone in the big old brass over there, and it's just like wow, like how did that all work? So, yeah, so yes, do you look at the signs? Well, no, I don't, but when you look at that, there are two different genres of of playing that probably shouldn't have gone together than they did, and it was absolutely magical. Magical, yeah, yeah. Thank you. That's awesome.

SPEAKER_01 32:01

Yeah. So our last one for this podcast, and thanks, Peter, for being with us around this intro. Love it, love it. So, why is music such a universal language? Do you want to take this first?

SPEAKER_00 32:18

Oh, I'll start off and then and then if you want to definitely add into it. So,

Technical Elements And Musical Surprise

SPEAKER_00 32:25

you know, there's music is a beat, like a nice sound that you can you add your words into it. So, an example of kind of I always kind of think back, like I love the voice, like the TV program is about you know, singers that come on and and their chairs are turned away from the person, so it's not about what what they look like the judges are yeah, so it's just about their voice, and then they start singing. And obviously, the the judges, if they like them, they can turn around and and you know fight for them to get them on their team. But I watch it from all around the world, right? So it's like, yeah, here's someone in Germany, here's someone in some of some of the place that I I can't even pronounce the English isn't their first language, yeah. English is like probably buried in maybe the third, maybe their fourth, could based off of where they're at. And they get up and they do a an outstanding job singing, probably just as good or better than any person that had English as their first language. And when the song's over, like the band plays it exactly the way it's supposed to be, and they're they're wherever they are in the world, so like that's universal, like the the instrument part of it. The the person came on and they sang that song like it was theirs, and then when they get done and they're talking to the judges afterwards, they're back to their native tongue. They're back to their native tongue, and it's like, how did you just come and own that song so clearly? It's like, man, that just it just tells you that something about the way that works. Anyway, I'll I'll leave it over to you.

SPEAKER_01 34:01

Yeah, no, I mean that's a perfect example. And on the other side of that, I I forget what the show was called, started watching it, and that's where I discovered and fell in love with Dimash. If you haven't heard Dimash, then please do look him up. A lot of times he's not I mean, he has the English, like he has English, French. I think he speaks like five different languages or something, but he was singing so much in his own native tongue that I I had no idea. But he also hits what so many all the octaves.

SPEAKER_00 34:36

The guy's range is out of the world. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 34:39

So it's like, how could you not? And even the first song that I heard him sing, he was actually singing in French. But it was just the way in which that universal music of just touching you and his voice and and and the lyrics and and all that stuff. And even though I couldn't understand it, I all I had to do was watch him. It hit me deeply. And there's some songs even to this day, like I have a whole playlist of Dimash that if I need to change my energy up, or if I if I'm not feeling too good, I'll just go listen to a certain playlist and go, yeah, that just changed my whole mood around because it just touches you deep in your heart and goosebumps and and shivers and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_00 35:26

So I I agree with you. Like, there's I listened to it, you you brought it to my attention to say, hey, listen to this. And I was like, I said, Wow, I I need I need to be, I need to sit down and listen to this guy. And it's like I still to this day don't know what half the stuff is that he sings, what it even means. But just watching him, like, and he's like going way up there in the sky somewhere with his voice, and you're like right up there with emotion with him because just the projection, like I mean, we talked a little bit about it at the start of this. Like, how does knowing the words matter? It's like, well, I don't even know what the heck he said, but my god, I'm there with him.

SPEAKER_01 36:05

Yes, and then he would like change from like head voice and and way up there in octaves and down to his chest voice, and then really deep and you know, just like within a second from each other. So if you don't have never heard him before, then yeah, I suggest I'll put him in I'll put a couple examples for him in the show notes of him in the show notes. So to expand your music repertoire, and even people react into him, they always like they try to break down how he sings and they're like, Yeah, whatever. So universal language, music. Absolutely agree a hundred percent. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, like I said, sometimes don't even care if I can understand the words, just that's a song, I need to know it, and there it is. Like in doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_00 36:56

Yeah, it doesn't matter. It does it like I mean he was he's a perfect example of I don't know what you just sang, pal, but I loved it.

SPEAKER_01 37:04

Yeah, let me listen again.

SPEAKER_00 37:07

Let me listen again.

SPEAKER_01 37:10

Okay, to end do you have a favorite song? Do you have a favorite? I know. All of them. All of them. Depending on my mood in the day, that's right. How about your favorite band right now?

Music As A Universal Language

SPEAKER_00 37:25

Been really into Lincoln Park for the last about probably about a year. Kind of stumbled on them one day. I was just driving home. Like, I mean, they've been around for a long time. Right. I was just driving home one day and I said, I don't know who sings that, but I I'm adding this to my playlist. I but I don't know who sings it, so I need to I'll just go home and I'll type in can that I know the song and see what comes up. And it came up and it was it was like in park, it was like it was in the end was the name of the song, and I was like, man, that was just a good song. And then it was an earbug that I couldn't get rid of for like, oh, I don't know, months. It was always playing in my head. It's actually funny at work. Someone was humming it, and I just I walked up behind him and I started singing the lyrics, and it was like, oh yeah, and then we were like friends forever, kind of because that's that's another point with the the music being universal, is that people connect.

SPEAKER_01 38:20

Think about a concert.

SPEAKER_02 38:21

Oh, 100%.

SPEAKER_01 38:22

You don't know these people, and then right now I'm into uh Youngblood, because there is such meaning and emotion behind a lot of his songs, but but what got me into it because I'd never heard of the guy before, was when he did changes from Ozzy. Oh, yeah, and that and that thing, and he got the people raiding the the club you thought the song was over, but then he got the audience in, and it's just so deeply touching and connecting, and you just think I want to be there, but I felt like I was there, you know.

SPEAKER_00 38:53

Well, that's a perfect example we talked about where the guy was like had the crowd in the palms of his hands, yes, right. It's just like it's just like yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 39:01

Where it's just like he was directing everything, and people were willing to be a part and be directed, right? So it's a challenge to pinpoint exactly. I just know what my favorite song is from years forever. I I'm always open to like new things. That's part of being dynamic. It's just there's always new things coming up, right? And and things unfolding and possibilities.

SPEAKER_00 39:26

So yeah, yeah, I found over the last three or four years that like my my just my music library has been very very dynamic. Yes, right. I I use the term listen to rap like very loosely. I listen to MM, right?

SPEAKER_01 39:42

Yeah, yeah and stuff like that. One of his songs is in my playlist, the five-minute one.

SPEAKER_00 39:46

Yeah, so like I don't I don't like dive deep into stuff like that. I started getting into him due to not Nox Hill, which is a YouTuber that does a reaction breakdown, but he he listens to the lyrics and tells you what those lyrics are about, which actually adds meaning to the song that you had no idea what they're even talking about. And in that one, he made me realize that there was way more to this song than what met my ears, right?

SPEAKER_03 40:13

Right?

SPEAKER_00 40:13

So I was like, wow. So now when I listen to that, I was like, oh, that's deep. Like my music library. As soon as I get into Spotify and I started just listening to a bunch of different stuff, Ella Langley, right now, country female artist, just just killing it. She came out of nowhere, loved her. Kelly Clarkson loved a lot of her stuff. There's there's so many artists. Like, I mean, I could go on forever.

SPEAKER_01 40:39

Yeah, and then when they when they get the collabs going too with other people, like that's a whole different situation. And then when they turn over their their their usual genre to, you know, okay, well, I'm gonna go from rock to country, or I'm gonna go to country rock. Like, there's just all of this stuff that just, you know, yeah, yeah, love it. Do you want to say anything as we wrap up on this podcast around music dynamics and the dynamics of music?

SPEAKER_00 41:08

I can't wait to continue. I hope, I hope your listeners love love this and can relate to everything that we're saying. I know music to me goes right to my core. Yes. And uh I I will I will take time out of my day to you know reset by listening to a few songs. And you know, I really hope that like again that your mus your listeners uh enjoy what we're about to go down and and uh the road we're about to go down this journey with us because you know I I have I all have a ball doing this, so yes, because it's so passionate and you can tell your passion about it.

SPEAKER_01 41:47

Dynamos community. Take a moment to reflect on this show around living a dynamic life every day around the subject of music. Oh my goodness, I'm sure it's it's in everybody's life in some regard. What resources will you use? How

Favorites, Community, And The Challenge

SPEAKER_01 42:02

will you make this information uniquely yours? What will you become from this since we're always becoming something, and hopefully more aligned around music and listening to it and honoring music a whole lot more. So what now? We challenge you to take action, share this episode with someone who needs it, or explore past recordings to keep the discussion alive. Dive into the resources by visiting dynamicshow.info or dynamicsseries.com. And keep in mind all materials shared on the show are copyrighted, meant for informational purposes only. So until we meet again, thank you, thank you, thank you for tuning in to this dynamic show, Peter. We greatly appreciate this time with you. Your insight. So appreciated. So thank you, thank you, thank you.

SPEAKER_00 42:52

Thank you.

SPEAKER_01 42:52

Yeah. Align with your dynamic well being every day, everyone, and make it a dynamic day. Bye for now.