Music!

A band that has affected me and influenced me in a small way is a Swedish rock band named kent. I think it is mainly because I like Jocke Berg, the singer and songwriter. He is really good at what he does, and he can express so many feelings in a tune, which makes you able to interpret it as you like.

There are a lot of people who are judgemental against the band. Many people just assume that just because the lyrics are rather sad and kind of depressing sometimes, the ones who listen to it suffer from a depression and wear black all the time. I think that just because you listen to a certain music style you do not have to take on the whole lifestyle that comes with it. The first time I experienced kent I was about 13 years old. My brother and my mother are also very fond of kent so the first time I heard them I was at home. At first, I thought the lyrics were strange. Since I was just 13 years old I did not understand much, but it grew on me and I came to like it.

After a while I stopped listening to it and it was not until I was about 15 years old that I picked up an old CD laying around and put it in the CD player. I started listening to it again. It was then I really got into kent and because I was older, I came to understand all the things I was not able to understand the last time I heard it. Maybe I got a little bit wiser by listening to kent, but I tend to never let anything affect me a lot and especially not music. The lyrics are melancholy and reflective and often rather strange. As I said before, you can interpret them as you like. Some songs are cheery and happy and some are very “please come and kill me now”. Sometimes I get really bored with it because I feel that it is all about suffering and self-pity. The band itself is not the most modest band in the world if you put it like that. I have periods of liking for kent. Sometimes I listen to it intensely and sometimes I do not listen to it at all. I had a very intense period when I was about 15 years old and at that time I listened to the CD’s “Hagnesta Hill” and “Isola”. If I listen to them today I feel all the things I felt back then, I feel really nostalgic about it. Some of the songs will always be very special for me.

I have never been much of an artist. I am really bad at singing and painting and things like that, and I do not think that kent has influenced me i my non-artistic ways.