The Universality of Music (and the Differences)
Last week, I was on YouTube and found myself watching the new music video for Kelly Clarkson’s People Like Us. I’m rather fond of both the song and the video, but what I found really interesting about the whole thing was the comments. People seem to universally find the song inspirational, but their reasons for finding it so varies from person to person. Some people were lonely. Some people were bullied. Some people had gotten out of a bad relationship. Some people just liked the idea that there were people out there who were like them, somewhere. It’s why music–and art–endures.