Maybe music is the bond that holds the world together.
I stay vigilant to see what happens to people. These days, people have moved away from having real-time conversations with each other. There is a decline in the quality of time spent with other people. There are too many distractions that creep in when having real-time conversations with people.
These days, different channels take away physical-human interaction. When I say physical, I mean the conversation we have using our mouths and not our devices.
Get two people in a room together and give them a chance to spend one hour with each other and with their phones. Then, tell them to have a good time. The chances are that 20-30 minutes of the time given would be spent on their phones. They spend more time trying to see what else is happening in their world, forgetting there is another human present.
What has changed?
The attention span given to physical time spent amongst folks is gradually shifting, to time spent with technology.
With the current globalization and spread of technology, even a three-year-old child tends to derive more fun from television than from spending time with those around.
I believe this change can be attributed to the fact that humans channel everything they are involved in into the media.
And in turn, this affects physical relationships amongst people.
Is technology the new bond?
While I am buried in my thoughts, I wonder if technology could be the new bond. Would it be acceptable to replace human interaction and physical time with a medium powered by technology?
Has technology done more good than harm, a debate topic that always resurfaces on the timeline? If the greater good is evident and there is a bond between technology and people, should we accept it? Reminisce and provide the best answer for self.
Music is a bond I believe in.
Amidst the charade of being lost to technology, there is an ally. I call it an ally because it now substitutes for communication in difficult instances. In situations where people rely on other mediums to pass their messages across.
We have music simplifying communication for people. It has become the vessel for unspoken words.
Artists now use music to pass messages across, and this can be seen across various genres of music, from afrobeats to pop to highlife. Some artists have perfected the art so much that you wonder if the artist is in your head because the lyrics are an interpretation of your words.
The artist uses a few minutes to describe real-life situations with tunes and lyrics. And it’s like, “Oh, why not send this to my folks when it screams what I’ve been trying to say for so long?”
And then I ask myself, could music be an ally to inaudible sentences? The unspoken words? A bond that keeps us together?
You could just bump into the lyrics of a song and it would define what you have been trying to say for years.
My opinions could fly here and there, but I’ll ask you silently, or better still, in a low-pitched voice, which music expresses your opinions perfectly?
For me, it’s “Time Go Come” by Ignis Brothers ft. Phlow.
There is an extended communication that went on in the song, and if you are at a point where you need to recall that “time and chance go happen to us all”, then the album, “The Cost of Our Lives,” by Ignis brothers, could be the album to express what your words could not.
Perhaps, music is the bond that holds us together, a vessel we can rely on to convey our words.