I chose to interview my Aunt Jenna for this blog topic this week, for reference my Aunt Jenna is my mother's kid sister of 13 years. Growing up Jenna had music playing everywhere constantly, it was apart of her. I never related to music much when I was younger but later grew to appreciate it, I first wanted to know what started Jennas love for music.
Jenna: "When I was a kid my mother had music playing in the kitchen all the time, it was typically older country music, people like George Strait and Faith Hill. I hated it, it was the only genre she ever played. But when it came for christmas time Elvis Presley's Blue Christmas would play throughout the house and his voice just scratched my brain so nicely he became my first artist obsession.
I also learned that many people use music as an escape from reality or their own life and I wanted to know if Jenna fell back onto music like that and if so when?
Jenna: I absolutely used music to get me through tough times, my parents were divorcing when I was in high school. Music was the only thing that made me understand that other people have felt the way I did. Even know when Matt (her husband) and I are having a problem music helps me feel all the emotions that I try to push down. We play music at night for the baby (shes pregnant), we want em' to love music the way Matt and I do.
We continued talking about music and it led us to talking about when she was around 15..
Jenna: Okay so when I was around 15, nobody monitored me so I could pretty much do what I wanted, anyway I would sneak out of the house with my friends and we would go to these parties in the basements of the senior kids houses I would hang out with. Well my friend and I snuck out to this party one time and got in our heads that it was a good idea to have this guy pierce my bellybutton...I laid up on the couch and get it done (mind you this man is not a professional) and because of that the song "Get Ur Freak On" I can't hear without thinking of that night (that was the song that was playing).
The thing about Jenna is that music encompasses who she is, she has Elvis's signature tattoo behind her ear, as a child she had a dog named Presley after him, she gave me a poetry book written by Halsey before I left and even sends me song recommendations she thinks I would like.
