The show I chose to write about in this blog is "Dancing with the Stars". I chose this show, because I enjoy watching it. I find it interesting and exciting, as I like watching the stars trying their best on the dance floor, struggling or being successful. I also like listening to the judge's opinions and comments, which I sometimes find so entertaining. It is so surprising to see a football player doing the cha-cha or the mongo. These entertainers actually actually give it it their all out on the dance floor I have seen some entertainers hurting themselves during their rehearsal time, because they push themselves so hard. The trained dancers that are teamed up with their star have a lot of hard work ahead of them. They need to choose the right routines to catch the judge's interest, as the judges are really hard core and they want to see perfection. The judges want to see the dancers and entertainer connect to life on the dance floor. With connecting in every aspect of their dance and making a strong connection and also their technique has to be right on the money. As the weeks go by and some of the dancers get eliminated and the competition gets harder, the judges also get harder and they look for the littlest mistakes. The one thing I hate about the judging is that they let the television viewers vote. I feel that isn't fair, because I feel the viewer's vote as with whom they like as a star not the way they dance and that sometimes hurts the real good dancers and we end up seeing the good dancers get cut. Where I feel it should be judged by how well they danced not by how popular they are. I think that is only fair, as I've seen a lot of couples get eliminated that were real good dancers. I feel it's not a fair competition when they let the fans vote, as it should only be left up to the judges. Another part of "Dancing with the Stars" is when they do their free style dancers. i have seen some real good free-styles. They come out with some kind of dancers and they get the audience going, as they go all out. The free style could either help them or break them. The dancers get to choose the right dance that is going to make them look good in front of those judges and believe me that's hard to do in front of these judges. Theses judges are very hard core, they look for any little mistake that the dancers make, but also when they dance real well, the judges gives them the points they really deserve. When I started watching this show I really got into it and after two routine of dances, I would pick me winner the couple I thought would win it all. Sense the show has aired I've had picked two winners. I believe "Dancing with the Stars" is going to be with us for quite some time, as a lot of people seem to find it entertaining.

Teenagers gave Eminem credit for keeping it real, because they see him both as a rebel raising up against a brutal parent and as the devoted father they never had. It is important to me that lyrics are reality based when an artist sings about the truth it gives the songs more meaning. The music touches the person in a big way that listens to this type of music. These types of music touches their heart and soul and it can make them cry or make them very happy. Sometimes this type of music relates what they might be going through at the time or something they went through in the past. Music throughout my life made a big difference in my life, as sometimes when I needed an answer for the mood I would go through the oldies to help me through it. When I was in love or was broken hearted, Karen Carpenter helped me get through it; music had the answer for me. When I found no one to understand me, I found music to understand me. i have music to thank a lot for getting me through a lot in my life. The oldies, blues, country, and pop made a big difference in my life, as music helped me through rough times and great times. For example, when I was a teenager and I wanted to tell somebody something important and I couldn't find the right words to say, I would turn to the lyrics of a song to help me out and it always helped me. I turned to the lyrics of music because the artist lyrics were realistic and it relates with what I was going through at the time and when I hear those same songs now it takes me back in time. Who says we need pictures to remember our past, music does wonders for us. There are realistic songs that bring back our greatest memories, happy or sad. Realistic songs have touched my life in many ways. I'm so grateful for realistic music and I tend to believe that country music has more realistic music than any other kind of music. Country music artists express their lives and feelings so well. When we listen to their music we could tell it comes way deep down in soul. When we hear their songs, we can't help to put feelings into what they were going through. The country greats I'm referring to are, Patsy Cline, Dolly Parton, Loretta Lyn, Kenny Rogers, Barbra Mandrel, and Johnny Cash, all of these country greats sing realistic songs, as their very powerful songs. The greatest realistic songs are the love songs or the songs that tell a story. Telling a true story through music makes us think of other people and what they've gone through their lives. It sometimes make us feel that our problems aren't that serious compared to theirs and that is their hope for us. Country music is very powerful realistic music, as it actually makes us fell what they went through by just listening to their lyrics. Realistic music in so many ways touches our heart and soul in so many different ways.

I do agree with Werner's opinion about what drives so many jazz men and women do drugs. We find this to be so true, when the jazz artist himself/herself lost. The audience is unable or unwilling to follow the jazz artist's new explorations within his/her music. The way Werner states: Sometimes jazz finds itself lost, wandering trackless paths where the calls fade into echoes of themselves. When the artist fined themselves struggling the turn to drugs to try to pick themselves up from what they might be going through. Thinking that the drugs they choose to take will get them through the troubles they are going through, or just all together forget the struggles and pain they are going through at the time. Also hoping that the drugs they use will help them come up with a hit single. Chances are that they'll play something the world's never heard and chances are it won't hear it this time either, which is why so many jazz artist turn to drugs. The jazz artist turns t the needles, the pip's, the bottles and for the most part of it only deadens the pain. It just seems so unbearable to these jazz artist. For example, the kind of pain killed Jimi Hendrix in 1970; Hendrix expressed his desire for a deeper audience response. The main thing that used to bug me was that the people wanted too many visual things from me. I never wanted it to be so much of a visual thing. When I didn't do it, people thought I was being moody, but I can only freak when I really feel like doing so. Now I just want the music to get across, so that people can just sit back and close their eyes and know exactly what is going on without caring a darn about what we are doing while we are on stage. Hendrix wanted his fans to love his old and new style of music, but he found it hard to except the way his fans accepted the style of music he played. They didn't like the change of music Jimi Hendrix played, as he lived and died the blues. When jazz artist go through what Hendrix went through they say the jazz greats of the pass seems to haunt us., like Samuel Beckett, Billie Holiday. I have to say these artist that play and sing the blues, come to one point where they themselves are actually feeling the blues. We know what they say about jazz artist that play and sing the blues, that some of that artist actually lived the blues in their past and some at the present, where felling the blues and that made it easier for them to play the blues, but it ended up making them feel even bluer. The depression they ended up getting into made them turn to drugs, but for the most it had to do with the time and the style of music.