Music and My Life -by Grace McDonough
I’ll always love listening to my dad’s music on long car rides. When I was younger, we would often listen to these mixtapes my dad made for my mom. Before I was born, he received the album The Eminem Show for his birthday, which includes the song My Dad’s Gone Crazy. The song features Marshall Mathers’ daughter, Hailie Jade, as a little girl. My dad must’ve been inspired because these mixtapes he made included short audio-clips of my sister speaking when she was little and would say spontaneous cute things. I’ll never forget that. Listening to the songs on those tapes is a feeling I can’t describe, deeper than nostalgia. To me, music is a universal language, with the power to wrap people up and tie them together forever. As I write this, I’m having a little trouble trying to find the words to say how I feel about music without using vague, cliche lines. But it’s true. Music is so much more than what I can say with only words. Initially, I had a bunch of ideas for thing...