Hi!
My name is Kylie and I am a freshman at Northern Illinois University. Currently
I am a communications major with the hopes of one day working for an
entertainment agency in the Public Relations department or as a talent agent. The
show Entourage on HBO is what inspired me in this direction since I hope to one
day become successful in the entertainment industry much like Ari Gold’s
character. However, my interest in the industry is with the music side of it
all rather than T.V or movies. Ever since I was little, my parents always had
music playing wherever and whenever. My love for music started with a mix of
classic rock and new age indie music because my dad listened to that whenever I
would be in the garage helping him work on his cars. After a couple of years, I
developed my own taste in music and started listening to bands like Fall Out
Boy and immediately fell in love with their lyrics and catchy guitar riffs.
Entering my freshman year of high school, I decided I wanted to try my hand at
writing my own music. I bought my first bass guitar (an exact replica of the
Fall Out Boy bassist’s of course), entered in piano lessons, and enrolled in
the maximum amount of music classes available at my high school. I invested all
my free time in music, but when volleyball season started I had to put it on
hold for a bit. Every off season I would fall right back into my true passion
and record whenever I got the chance, completing my first mix tape by the
middle of my sophomore year. However, no matter how much I loved writing or
creating my own music, nothing could help my awful stage fright. I wanted to
pursue a music career, but I would become nauseous just at the thought of
performing onstage in front of an audience. I continued to write and record
music through the rest of my high school years but had a big decision to make
midway through my senior year when college applications started. I realized
that I always want to be involved with music, but as long as I had stage fright
being a performer was out of the question. That was when I decided that going
to college and earning a communications degree could put me in a position to
have music be the main focus of my life.
Obviously
music has been a huge part of my life which is why I want to write about it. I’m
hoping to provide some insight and share my opinions on the music that has
inspired me for years as well as look deeper into the culture surrounding
music.
