The Syndicate

All of those people you named are deceased. Could that be part of the issue for you?

I just looked up a picture of "Lil Peep" and I got depressed.

A lot of my experiences are tied with entire albums, so mere songs don't mean as much. Sometimes they do, but I'm an album-oriented person, I suppose.

Does anybody listen to albums anymore?

Music naturally is tied to moments in ones' life. That is an incredible area in which an artist has no control over his or her audience's perception or reception of the work.

I love this, because music serves as an index to my life.

And that index grows daily.

After a twelve-hour road-trip today, there is one song I'll never look at the same way again. It will always transport me back to that trip.

Do sad associations ruin pieces for me?

No.

It only enhances them and gives them a richer, more personal meaning.