[madgeylou]

i am a writer and a singer. lots of things i end up writing and singing about are my explorations of why i feel some way, and how it can be alchemized. not all of the songs are positive. i'm a big fan of country music, cry-in-your-beer songs, torch songs, etc., and not everything i sing is something i want to manifest -- i just like feeling and expressing that particular emotion while i'm singing the song.

i am wondering, what are your thoughts on the danger of exploring negative emotions? for instance, if you get dumped and write songs exploring your relationship, which wasnt always positive, are you in effect manifesting the same thing for yourself again?

and when you listen to and sing along with other music, are you putting the energy of that music into your life?

thinking that this might be the case makes me a little sad, because i do love me some depressing music, and i love to sing along with it. right now i have a devastating martha wainwright song stuck in my head and it's so incredibly beautiful, but the sentiments it expresses are not the ones i want to manifest in my life, so i feel a little ambivalent about playing it over and over in my skull.

any thoughts?