Bring your music wherever you go

Haven’t you wished you could bring your music with you wherever you go? Imagine seeing your crush and playing a romantic song (to yourself, of course). Imagine hurrying to class and playing a punk rock song to pump you up while you’re breathlessly running through the halls. Imagine trying to relax while studying for your finals and playing a soothing, chill out song, and then following it up with a classical tune to rev your brain cells for studying.

Life is pretty boring without music. No movie is complete without a soundtrack, and so it is with everyday life. I always try to make up for the fact that my life doesn’t have an actual soundtrack by providing my own – I hum, sing, croon, rap, tap my hands on the desk, whistle, or wiggle to the music in my head. I recently got the mp3 player that I wanted, and since then I have been wiggling to the music I choose. Sometimes I like randomly selecting songs, but there are times that I specifically choose the music to fit my mood or the time of the day. During mornings, I play loud rock music to go with my morning coffee to wake myself up. When I’m getting ready to go out, I listen to R&B music and dance while choosing tops. When I’m feeling nostalgic, I choose cheesy sentimental music to really bring on the sniffles. Sometimes I even play memory specific songs – the song I used to sing with friends at the back of our classroom, the song I memorized the lyrics to during my senior year, the song that was in every place I went to back in France – to replay the images in my head.

Yes, music plays a huge role in our lives. It can heighten our moods or experiences. It can store memories. It can tell stories or send a message. It can bring people together. Or it can simply get you swaying in your seat or nodding your head in unison. Music has interwoven itself in our everyday lives. We already know that there is always music playing somewhere – in the jeep (blaring very loudly), in the mall (even in each store that you step into), your friend’s guitar, someone’s laptop. And whether we know it or not, we all have music running in our heads or beating in our hearts. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could align the music we want to hear with the music we’re actually hearing?

That’s why I’m so amazed with the latest Walkman phones, especially the cool Sony Ericsson w810i. With all the features that my phone had, especially the camera, I never thought I could want anything more until now. I find it annoying that I have to leave my mp3 player at home because it won’t fit into my handbag. Of course, my phone has to come first, but the standard ring tones in my phone can’t replace my choice of songs in my player. With the Walkman phone, I can always listen to the songs that I want to hear and create my own playlists while I’m on the go.

Since I love alternative rock, here’s one playlist I’d arrange right away:

Foo Fighters – Best of You

Nine Days – If I Am

Stroke 9 – Letter

Alanis Morisette – Uninvited

The Used – I Caught Fire (In Your Eyes)

And that’s just one genre! Imagine the playlist possibilities – you could select the songs you want to listen to when you’re driving, when you’re waiting in line, when you’re feeling down, even when you just feel like listening to your favorite song. Not to mention text, call, fix your schedules, take pictures, play games, and do everything else with the same phone. Why get the same mp3 player as everyone else when you can get a single phone that plays music and does a lot more?

Here are some other students who, like me, love bringing their music with them wherever they go. I got curious about what they loved about their Walkman phones, and they were only too happy to share the awesome features of their phones. I might have to get myself one of these very soon.

Riva Galveztan, 19

Student, BS Communications Technology Mgt.

Ateneo de Manila

Playlist:

•Paula Cole — I Don’t Wanna Wait

•Session Road — Leaving You

•3 Doors Down — Be Like That

•Hungry Young Poets — Firewoman

•Alanis Morisette — Ironic

What do you love about your phone?

I love how I can bring my anywhere and listen to my music anytime I want.

Kathy Chavez, 20

Student, BS Communications Technology Mgt.

Ateneo de Manila

 Playlist:

•Bonnie Bailey — Safe

•Donna Lewis — Harvest Moon

•Maria Nyler — Naked and Sacred

•Bossa N’ Marley — No Woman, No Cry

•Bliss — Kissing

What do you love about your phone?

It’s having a cell phone and and music player in one!

Jose Iñigo B. Generoso, 22

Student, BS Entrepreneurship Mgt.

Entrepreneurs School of Asia

Playlist:

•Moonpools and Caterpillar — Soon

•Jamie Foxx - Unpredictable

•Kanye West - Heard ‘Em Say

•Incubus — Are You In?

•Mary J. Blige — Be Without You

What do you love about your phone?

I love the clarity of sound and the clarity of the pictures. And it has a huge memory! Also, it’s nice to have various genres of songs that I can play wherever I am.

Sabina Lopez, 18

Student/model, AB Communication Arts

Ateneo de Manila

Playlist:

•Maps - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

•The Blower’s Daughter - Damien Rice

•Light My Fire - The Doors

•Night on Fire - VHS or Beta

•747 — Kent

What do you love about your phone?

The Walkman phone has very dynamic features, such as the ability to play music, using its speakers. This allows a louder range of play, and better sound quality. The 2-megapixel camera gives good resolution pictures, with a flash that can also serve as a flashlight. The phone also has both bluetooth and infrared, not one or the other. Plus, it’s small and light, that it fits everything, from music, pictures and messages.

Jemill Lacuin, 18

Student, BS Engineering

New Era University

Playlist:

•B2K — Sprung

•Ne-yo — So Sick

•Mario Winans — So Fine

•Chris Brown — Yo (Excuse Me Miss)

•Jamie Foxx — Unpredictable

What do you love about your phone?

I love the features and the mobility. It’s having a music player and phone mashed in one, what else can you ask for? Clear sounds, great images and not to forget, large memory. I can stuff everything in my phone.

Mikael Tubilleja, 20

Student, BA Multimedia Arts

College of Saint Benilde

Playlist:

•D Sound — Tatooed on My Mind

•Micheal Bublé — The Way You Look Tonight

•Diana Krall — The Look of Love

•Daniel Powter — Bad Day

•Keane — Everybody’s Changing

What do you love about your phone?

I can listen to music anytime, anywhere.