A good song.

I really like the song, Knock You Down, by Keri Hilson featuring Ne-Yo and Kanye West. I think the lyrics are great, and I absolutely love the way the music video was made - extremely creative, extremely classy, and very smooth.

Music is so powerful. It can do so much for a person and to a person. It can inspire and it can move a person to tears. It can invoke anger, joy, sociability, nostalgia, regret. It can aid in studying. It can forge friendships and it can preserve memories.

Like how If You Could Read My Mind by Stars on 54 will always remind me of being 8 years old in the summertime, standing under the sprinklers in front of my apartment. Or how Genie in a Bottle by Christina Aguilera will always be played in my mind by a car passing by in the middle of a hot night, waking me up from pretend sleep (I had trouble falling asleep when I was younger) as it blasted the song from its radio.

I will forever be thankful to Blink 182's Feeling This for being the bridge to my friendship with Krhystyne Pablo back in sophomore year of high school, and we've been best friends ever since. And, even though it brings back somewhat uncomfortable memories, listening to Ken Oak Band's Slow Dance reminds me that Chui Hung Wong is not only one of my best friends in life, but one that has seen me through some of the worst of my times...and never left my side.

(Yes, we stayed in 339, my little green, dimly lit, dead-flower infested dorm room, in the same position for more than 24 hours. With me lying down underneath my covers, and she, on my green disk chair, her legs racked up on my mattress and also underneath my covers...Ken Oak Band softly played in the background. Indeed, life has a soundtrack.)

Music. is. powerful.

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I never thought I'd
hear myself say
Ya'll go ahead
I think I'm gonna kick it with my girl today
(kick it with my girl today)
I used to be commander in chief
on my pimp ship flying high (flying high)
'till I met this pretty little miss
Who shot me out the sky (shot me out the sky)
.........