My Favorite Music and Me

     Hello everybody! My name is Gencie Coan and I am a freshman here at Converse University. I play lacrosse for the school and I have been playing since I was in 4th grades. I am born and raised in Greenville South Carolina. I do not know much about music or the history and culture behind it so I am exited to learn more! I am a child and family studies major and hopefully to minor in psychology. I have 2 older brothers who both play sports. Judd, 19, plays basketball in Florida and Lucas, 24, played baseball at Erskine. I love animals especially my dog, Stella. She is a black lab mixed with a pit bull and she loves going to the beach just like I do. This is just a little things about my life and me! 

1. One example of something I am into at the moment is Zach Bryans music. I have liked his music for about a year now and I am going to his concert in May so I am listening and learning a bunch of his new and old songs. He is a newer country artist. The first song he ever released was “American Heartbreak”. Which he turned that song into an entire album. One of his most popular songs came out in 2022 and it is called “Something in the Orange”. Most of his songs are about love and heartbreak and how he got through those times of hardship. It is interesting to watch Zach Bryan grow in his music and fame when he released new songs. 

This song is one of his most heard of and popular songs. It came out early 2022 and is now in his album “American Heartbreak”. This song is about do not lose hope in someone and that there is a possibility they will come back. I think it will be cool to see this song live and the sunsetting while he is performing it!

2. One song that has a meaning to me is “Never Enough” from the movie The Greatest Showman. I find this song important to me because it is my favorite musical movie and that is my favorite song from that movie. I think it is a huge groundbreaking and turning point in the movie due to the lady singing it and the meaning behind the song. Rebecca Ferguson is the actress that is singing the song in the movie but the person that was really singing the song was Loren Allred. I typically do not like opera style of music that the one sang in this movie but I always enjoy listening to Never Enough when it is sang in the movie.

Something else that is special about this song is that it lead a role for the real singer in becoming well known in todays society after the movie came out. She got recognized on the show “UK Got Talent” when the judges realize that she is the person behind the scenes singing the song for the movie. Most people did not know it was her because they movie does not credit her enough for it. 

3. An example of music I do not typically connect to or like is the heavy metal type of music. One of the main reasons I do not like this type of music is because I can not understand what they are saying or what the meaning behind the song generally is. I have never been interested in this genre of music and do not plan on starting to like it. It honestly scares me a little bit how much they are screaming and barely even singing. 

This is one band called “Metallica” and this song is Sandman. I do not like this song or the music video that comes a long with it. Like I said before it just freaks me out how much screaming there is and heavy metal.