Music

Hello Ylva!

*When I was young A-Teens and Westlife were important to me. Books were not important to me because I don’t like reading.

* I don't really remember what changed me, the only things which changed me was the music I listened to with my friends. My friends and I did like our favourite artists. We dressed like them and had the same make-up.

*I think my taste for the music I like today will follow me till I get older, but I don´t think I will care so much about the movies in ten years.

* When I hear the words, P.S I Loved you, I think of a person I miss or someone who has died.

Movies.music and books.

What song, album, book or movie was important to you when you were younger? How did it affect or change you? Why were you drawn to it? How do you feel about it today?

I never really had any books, movies or music from my younger years which has affected me in a big scale. It was first in the seventh grade when I heard the group “Lok” at a party I first understood the value of music and how it can enhance your feelings in a particularly moment. For example, laying on the beach and you have some reggae tunes low in your earphones it makes you a bit more “summerish” or when your walking down the street in a big town having some good hip hop or electronic music on the ipod making all the awful noises from cars and such disappear and so on. I could probably go on like this forever because music is such a big thing in my life. Movies on the other hand can stay on so much longer a good movie clip from a movie can stick forever. Same goes here could go on for ever here to.



How do you think you will feel about the movies, music, and books that are important to you today in ten years? Twenty years? Forty years?

Some music I think I will still listen to but some will I probably have forgot or gotten sick of. Movies, same there. Books, don’t have any books hat are important for me right now.



What associations do you get from the phrase "P.S. I Loved You"? I see a letter that explains a long and complicated relation between two people, the relations ship wasn’t all great all the time. One important thing was that one of the partners never really said that he or she loved the other one, but haven’t told him or her before the letter but when the letter was sent it was too late. Because the person in matter didn’t know what he or she had before he or she lost it.

I don’t think I have ever read a book that has changed me. But music has always had a big effect on me. The artists have been everything from Spice Girls when I was about 9-10, to today’s hip hop and r&b artists. I like all sorts of music. I can’t say that I have a favourite artist or band, but I can say that I prefer a bit older music, from the 60s, like Motown andAretha Franklin. I honestly don’t think music today is so very good.One exception is Timbaland's newest album, where there are a lot of good songs. He has also helped Justin Timberlake and Nelly Frutado on their albums, the result is ok.


There was one artist I adored when I was younger, Michael Jackson, now called Wacko Jacko. He fascinated me with his dance moves and lyrics. I’m not so fond of his appearance nowadays, but he was an amazing artist in the 80`s. I mean that man could make an audience breathless with his moonwalk, poppin and lockin. His Thriller album cannot be beaten. I think he is that kind of person who becomes a legend, and people will remember him for a long time, whether it’s because of his appearance, scandals or his music.



I honestly don’t know how I will feel about the music I`m listening to today. But I don’t think it will be important to me in ten or twenty years. The music industry is such a fast working industry, and artists come and go without leaving any marks. But maybe some artists will survive. You never know..

The phrase “P.S, I loved you..


This phrase reminds me of a sad love story, when one of the persons has died or has travelled away..

music, movies and books

I have lots of things that are important to me, both music and movies. Well, I don't know if they are important but they mean something to me. When I was about five years old I loved watching a tv-series called "Beppes gonattstund". At that time I thought it was a great movie, but when I got older I thought it was really boring. When I was about eight years old I listened a lot to Spice Girls, Backstreet Boys and that kind of music, and of course when I listen to this music today I feel very happy. I remember I was collecting cards of Spice Girls, and you can probably guess who my favourite in the group was! When I became older I listened a lot to Westlife. Me and my best friend were totally crazy about them, and we burst into tears (ok, it was maybe not that dramatic) when one of the members left the rest of the group to continue on his own. My taste in music changed a lot when a friend of mine laughed at me when he got to know that I listened to Westlife. I don't remember thinking of it so much at the moment, but I probably changed without knowing. So, that's probably my turning point. I started listen to Kent and Coldplay and that kind of music when I was about 15 years old, the music I still listen to, and of course a lot more.The music I listen to today, may be important to me when I get older, it's hard to tell. But I can imagine that if I hear one of those songs today, me and my friends would do something crazy while listenting to it. We might be just as crazy as we were at the time.

The movie that has affected me the most is called "The Butterfly Effect". I would say it is the best movie I have seen. It shows how all the things you do in life, affects you later.. That's really scary.

A book wich made me think is "Hål i huvudet", which is the best book ever written. It shows how fast your life can change. You may have a perfect life, and in a couple of minutes it's gone. As I said, it made me think.

Ps. I loved you.
That's just sad.

Pay it forward

I never thought that a movie could affect me to tears, until I saw the movie Pay it forward. It’s a movie about a young boy desperately trying to save the world. After his teacher in social studies gave the class a message saying “If you have the chance to save the world, what would you do?” Trevor, a young boy in the class gets an idea. The point of the idea is to make a good thing for three other people. And then they do three good things for each three people, and so on, and after a while everyone is involved. There of the name of the movie Pay it forward.

His first project is to help a homeless person with money and a new start in life. Then he’s trying to play Cupid and make his teacher fall in love with his mother. His attempt to make the world a better planet is really touching and spreads out to the world with some help from a journalist who has been told about his project and makes an interview with Trevor. Later in the movie something goes wrong and when he is trying to stand up for a boy when two other boy is bullying him, and desperately trying to make them stop, one of the boys stabs him. They can’t save his life. But the world gives him the greatest present ever, they continue with his project. The movie is so touching and when the start to play the soundtrack Calling all angels I’m all in tears.


I don’t think I’ll ever watch a movie that will affect me like this movie. Since I was a young girl I have wanted exactly the same thing as the boy in the movie, make people care about each other, and make the world a better planet. So when I watched the movie for the first time I couldn’t stop thinking about it. And now I can’t count all the times I've seen it. In a strange way I actually think I’ll still love this movie in 20 years.

Even though I don’t know what the phrase “P.S I loved you” have to do with the other thing I’ve been written about, I think I have to answer the question. If I got a letter telling me that a friendship or a long love is over, and the sender wrote “P.S I loved you” in the end, then I must have done something really awful because I don’t believe you can stop love a person if it was true love or true friendship. I would never write that to another person, those words are to painful! To say “I love you” to someone is the greatest word you can use, and if you someday take it back, you shouldn’t have said it from the beginning.


//Felicia :)

movies

1. When I was about eleven years old I was at home from school for a while. My mum rented a video, Billy Elliot, and it’s been my favourite ever since. Many people have seen it because it’s a well known movie.
   It’s about a boy in the North of England, who starts to dance ballet. The story takes place in the 1980´s during the minors' strike. Billy's father is a miner and the strike affects their family quite a bit. Billy's mother is dead. Billy, his big brother Tony, his father and his grandmother live under the same roof in a small terraced house. Everybody thinks that Billy is having his boxing class when he actually attends the ballet class. He becomes really good with some extra help from his teacher.
2. Everything changes one day when Billy's father comes to the ballet class and sees his son there. He realizes that ballet is something that his son really wants to do. So finally he allows Billy to go on an audition in London for the Royal Ballet School. And as you might guess he was admitted and became really good!
   
   I must say this movie really touched me, from the very first time I saw it until now, six years later.
   Billy Elliot affected me in the same way that some people do when they have the guts to stand up. This movie shows this, since Billy knew that his father and brother wouldn’t like him to dance ballet and still he sticks to what he wants to do, no matter what they say.
   
   I’m drawn to it, to be honest, because I’ve always had a little crush on Jamie Bell who’s starring Billy. But also because it shows how to make a good movie with a message that affects so many people. I find a movie which moves the audience much more interesting than a movie with good-looking famous actors with absolutely no passion.

I don’t think I’m going to like all the movies I like today in let’s say 20 years. These days new movies are made constantly. But I might watch Harry Potter, maybe even Billy Elliot with my kids when I get older,who knows?
One thing that I’m sure of is that I won’t listen to the music that I’m listening to today in 40 years or less. It’s that kind of music you can’t listen to forever. Not me anyway. I don’t even think they’ll still be making music in 20 years or something, I mean the music I’m listening to. So I’m prepared for what is coming..

Music, Movie, Songs

I don’t really remember what song, album, book or movie that was important to me when I was younger. But I have many photos of Backstreet Boys, who were a little special to me but I don’t know why. I think it was the photos which attracted me but I don´t think they changed or affected me. Backstreet Boys means nothing to me today, only the photos are left, it is a bit funny. I don’t listen to them today. I also remember that I watched Tom and Jerry a lot when I was younger. I don’t know why I liked them so much, they were just so funny.

I feel a little sad when I hear “P.S. I loved you” because it is a sad phrase. I think of someone who just broke up, and writes a letter.

The music artist that has given me the most important and positive effect ..

The music artist that has given me the most important and positive effect in my life is truly Felipe Coronel also called Immortal Technique when he released his first hip-hop album called Revolutionary Volume 1. This album was so against the “system” that it totally caught my attention, no mainstream lyrics about how the rich rappers spend their money, no new school hip-hop with all those chains and cars, this album was about socio-political issues and that’s why I find the album and artist so special. Nowadays it’s hard to find hip-hop with a meaning. This album was and is a great example of what people call “Underground hip-hop”. This kind of hip-hop has grown; by saying “this kind of hip-hop” I mean hip-hop with lyrics that is about socio-political issues. Immortal Technique is still one of my favourite artists, and I still keep getting inspired by his lyrics for every day that passes by, even more because he released his second album called Revolutionary Volume 2. Soon he will be realising his third album called The Middle Passage. Will this music still be important to me in ten or twenty years? Of course it will, it will be a part of my young life.

A movie

When I was younger, about seven or eight years old, I liked movies, especially films from Walt Disney. I watched at least one of them every day. I didn’t have a favourite, but I liked the Lion King very much. I thought he was so brave and even when his father died he kept his spirits going. I remember how I used to cry when I watched it.

A film or a song can affect a person but not change him or her. I think that movies have a bigger influence on children, because they learn from everything they see and I saw things from another perspective when I was younger. Now when I’m older I can’t see what I saw then because I haven’t got the same apprehension anymore.

If I look back some time in the future I hope I will remember how happy I was when I watched the movies and give that happiness to my own children.

“Ps. I loved you”? I can only think of sad things. It could be the end of a suicide letter or a letter from a lost friend. It feels like it’s from a person who wants to tell you that you shouldn’t blame yourself because he or she loved you anyway, whatever you did.

Music, Movie, Songs

In my family, we always watched McGyver. I don’t know if it was important to me but I liked it. I don’t think it affected me, but me and my brother were out playing McGyver. I guess it was the action, which made me watch it; he always won against the bad boys.

Nowadays I just watch it for fun since technology has developed, so it seems a bit unprofessionel. (And he can do everything with his knife!!) But I still like it.
I think I will still like the movies, books and songs that I like today in the future.

P.S. I Loved You; If someone breaks up, and explains that she actually loved me the time we were together. Or if someone passes away, and you write an obituary and at the end you write P.S. I Loved You

Frida

I can only think of one song that reminds me of my childhood and that would be Lemon Tree by Fools Garden. I still like it! It makes me feel all happy and nostalgic. I don’t think it has affected me or changed me, it was just a song. But I still listen to it from time to time and it’s nice. I think that books or movies that I like now will always remind me of this time in my life. If I listen to a song very often now and then when I am fifty I will think about all the emotions I felt when I was this age. My associations from the phrase P.S I loved you is that I think it’s sad because it could be a relationship that has ended. That’s never nice!

Frida

-What song, album, books or movies that was important to me when I was younger.



If we could put songs and albums together into music I could startwith saying that when I was young, I was the youngest kid in the family so my big sisters gave me music influence such as hip hop,foreign hip hop, reggae, reggeaton, rock and so on. Particularly themost music but I got stuck on hip hop and reggae in a young agebecause I liked the message it gave and I thought it was more and more interesting.



I can still remember my first hip hop single, Outkast – Ms Jackssonthat I got for my 9 th birthday. Other music artists/groups that Ilistened to back in the day were Bob Marley, 2Pac, Lenny Kravitz or RHCP, Don Omar, Active Members and many more. Of course, this kind of music moved on to a next level or got “improved” as the years past by.



I've always enjoyed the entertainment a movie gives you. When I was young it was especially action movies with my dad and later on I started watching more comedies with my sisters, mostly American comedies about collage students.



Books aren't my cup of tea, if you know what I mean? I mean it happensthat I read books, but not very often. Not until 9th grade I came overa book that was surprisingly entertaining and interesting, called "The Alchemist".



How this affected/changed me, why I got drawn to it and how I feelabout it today.



I think it affected most of my lifestyle. Perhaps the way I dress,walk or which friends I choose. Every experience I got from this music, movies and books gave me a lot of thinking and changed perspectives onthings. I think it positively changed me and I regret nothing. I thinkI got drawn to it because I could see a way to live up to my ownlifestyle by listening to that kind of music, by watching those movies or reading those books.



How I think I will feel about the movies, music, and books that areimportant to me today in ten years? Twenty years? Forty years?



I will probably save the most influence from the music, movies and books, but as time goes by I think I will either losememories/influence or either change the perspective on things. It'snatural to become more mature as time goes by so I guess that in a fewyears I’d maybe be listening, watching or reading something else. I can't foresee the future, I'm not a magican but I do believe in changes.Maybe the music or the way of me watching those particular movies orreading those particular books will affect my future life, I can'treally tell how because I don't pay much attention to it. But there hasto be some change.



What associations I get from the phrase "P.S. I Loved You"



I can think as if there was a guy who never really had the chance to say "I loved you" to a certain girl that meant a lot to him and itobviously sounds like a posted note or a letter.You could also associate it to some music songs or perhaps movies andeven books but none particular that I could come up with now.

/Ion

My favourite book, movie, or song when I was younger!

I don’t remember any book that was important to me when I was younger, but I do remember one book I really, really liked and the title of the book is; “Jag saknar dig, jag saknar dig,” in English; “I miss you, I miss you.” I was drawn to it because it is a story about two sisters, twins as a matter of fact that are about thirteen or fourteen years old.
They have grown up together as normal sister do, and they were best friend. Then one morning, one sister dies in a horrible accident. The other sister has to figure out how to go on with her life alone. It’s a very sad story, one of the main reasons why I liked it so much.

I would love to read the book again. When you grow up you see things from a different perspective and maybe the book would be even better if I read it today. I would probably understand it in a way I couldn’t a couple of years ago.

Because there are so many different styles of music, books, and movies today there will probably be even more in ten years. Today music is changing rapidly and it will continue to do so in the future.The music I listen to today will be embarrassing to listen to in the future, but some songs will be really nice listening to when you grow older, trying to remember the good old days. Some songs stay with you forever. (I think it’s the same with books and movies)



It depends on why the person says it and to whom, in what situation and so on. When I hear the phrase I think of someone explaining that her or she is very hurt. If there is a boy and a girl, the boy tells the girl how much she has changed and how much he loved her. She just turned her back and did not care.

Claude Monet, an artist who has meant a lot to me.
I think I was six years old when I got the book Linnea in Monet’s garden. I loved it from the beginning and I still do. This was the book which started my interest in art and especially the artist Claude Monet who means a lot to me. In the book you follow a girl named Linnea when she is in Paris looking at Monet’s paintings and his wonderful garden. The book contains a lot of pictures of Monet’s paintings and the place where he lived. I still think Claude Monet is one of the best artists who ever walked on this planet. After I had visited The Art Institute of Chicago and had seen Monet’s paintings, I knew Monet and his art always will mean a lot to me. His paintings made me see the beuty of nature and they also inspired me to do my own paintings as a child. No one uses the colours like Monet. Monet was born in 1840 and died in 1926. He lived in France all his life. His painting, Impression: Soleil Levant (1872) gave the name to impressionism. Monet’s paintings are easy to like, especially for children. I’m sure that it was all the colour and the fact that you could see what they depict that made me love them as a child. I'ts important for children not just watch television and listen to music on the CD player. It would be wonderful if every child could experience colours, paintings and classical music. Then they would realize that there are more to look at than just the computer screen.

What the meaning “Ps. I love you” means to me.
The meaning doesn’t mean so much to me I think. It’s different If someone would say it to me personally. But of course if someone like Johnny Depp would write me a letter and write the meaning: Ps. I love you. Ohhh then I would be very, very happy.

/Sofia

One book I have read!

To be honest I don't have a favourite movie or book, but I choose to write about a book I read not so long ago. It's called High.It's about four teenagers, who in the beginning are pretty normal. Then they start to hang out with the wrong crowd and they fall for peer pressure and start taking drugs. One of the boys from this group has problems at home so he runs away from home with his girlfriend. They take drugs together and they lose their control. The girls in the group start to sell their bodies to afford drugs. One of the girls take an overdose of heroin. Then her friends understand that they have to take her to hospital. She returns to her family and tries to live a normal life again.

Before I read the book I didn't realize that drugs could be so dangerous. But now I really understand that drugs are a problem all over the world. People who take drugs don't only hurt themselves, everybody around them gets hurt too. I read this book because somebody said that it was good. The book didn't change me in a special way, it just showed me that drugs are a bad thing, even though I did know that before.This book has affected me deeply, and I will never take drugs. The book I read these days are going to be important to me in ten and twenty years, but I’m afraid I can't answer today in what way but I think I will know in ten years.

When I hear the phrase "P.S, I loved you" I think about a person who was very important in my life, but then disappeared for some reason.

//Kajsa

My favourite movie,book or song when I was younger?

When I was about thirteen years old I had a typical favourite artist that was very popular for girls at my age back then. It was Shakira with her song”Whenever, Wherever”. It didn’t affect or change me at all. When I think about the song today I remember that it wasn’t a song with very good and important lyrics. Or maybe it did change me, it changed my taste in music. Before”Whenever, Wherever” was released, I used to listen to singers like Britney Spears, which I am very embarrassed about. I think I was drawn to it because it was different from other songs , and everybody liked Shakira's new song. Today I still like it, it is not bad, maybe it is not as good as it used to be, but it is OK. I don’t really think that this song will be important to me in the future, on the opposite it will be totally forgotten. Maybe not after ten years since I used to listen to it a lot. But perhaps after twenty years I won’t remember it anymore.



I would associate the phrase to a break-up between two people and someone has been really hurt. Not because I want to associate that phrase with a break-up but it is something that I would do immediately not even thinking about it. Even though it’s a nice phrase it sounds sad in a strange way, like a goodbye and it also sounds like the love that a person has had to another person has come to its’ end because it is said I loved you. But if you think about it, it can also be a phrase that has been said to someone who has been in a job interview and has made some kind of good performance for example, and the employer loved the person who was in the interview. There are many possibilities, but the one I would associate it with is a break-up.

Music, movies and books

There are more than one song, album, book or movie which
were important for mer when I was younger.
But one book that was expecially important was: "Bli frisk, lillasyster"

Why I was drawn to this book was because I think it has a horrible plot,
and because of this you never forget the book and the plot.

In ten-twenty years I think I will feel the same about the book.
For that reason, like I said, I will never forget a story with a plot like this.


/Amanda