song In Your Heart Right now uh yes there's this  new song by Weezer called a little bit of love  

that I listen to all the time it's such a it's  just a feel-good song puts me in a really good  

mood very positive I love music that that makes  me feel happy oh for sure I love music that kind  

of brings me back to a time you know brings  me back to a certain moment in my life like  

high school graduation College days traveling  the world music can evoke so much in US yes  

absolutely right I agree I was excited we're  answering a listener question today you guys  

and I loved reading it because I love music  I always have and noran Muhammad commented on  

our YouTube video for the episode when we shared  our TV recommendations oh and said would love to  

hear your recommendations for different types  of singers too I'm excited because I have so  

many bands so many singers that I would love to  recommend yeah guys don't forget this episode if  

you're listening on the podcast it's also over  on YouTube so go to YouTube hit subscribe on our  

Channel and check it out now did we talk about  music anywhere else on other than the well we  

talked about TV what about music yes I was able  to interview Tommy with um learn English with  

Tommy if you missed it this was over on the IELTS  energy podcast but it was really interesting he  

gave a lot of recommendations that would be good  for anyone on how to use music books and film to  

learn English so great for students studying  for IELTS but for everyone listening it's so  

smart to be engaged to increase engagement right  listen to what you love that's our first tip for  

why why should you learn English through reading  music lyrics and listening to songs yeah and I  

think broadly speaking of music you know as  the connection skill to get to know someone  

people do kind of not in a negative way but they  judge you they size you up based on what you say  

who you say your favorite bands are I like that  expression what does that mean kind of determine  

something about your personality or what type of  person you are it's true our music tastes do kind  

of say something about us right and it also helps  us see what we have in common with others it is a  

bridge for connection when you ask someone what  type of music they listen to you find out a band  

that you both love it's such a fun bonding moment  it's also kind of a generational bonding moment  

because I know there's some a friend of mine here  a family friend here in Denver is about my age  

I think she's just a year older than me and she  loves Pearl Jam but people in our Circle who are  

10 years younger than us they don't like Pearl Jam  because they're just it's just another generation  

so kind of we share that as a laugh kind of  oh yeah Pearl Jam like it makes me feel like  

I connect with her on an age basis do you know  what I mean yes and then together you could maybe  

um have a little jab at like the new yeah or Rock  strap that you're like boy bands or whatever it  

was then and what it is now right exactly exactly  yes I agree so this is just going to be fun we're  

going to for first giving you three reasons that  you should be learning English through music the  

first I just shared like this is such a good way  to increase engagement right you want to enjoy  

learning English and we've talked about how that  means choosing books and TV shows that you love  

and find interesting same for music if you can  find music in English that's your type of music  

you're going to enjoy listening to those songs  reading the lyrics it keeps your brain engaged  

oh my gosh it's huge it's huge and then the  second reason Aubry is because we get idioms we  

get Expressions right exactly slaying interesting  freezes metaphors idioms songs are full of this  

where musicians are trying to be a little poetic  a little interesting in the way they're you know  

bringing across their message so you learn so much  great vocab yeah I remember when I taught in New  

York City I used to use uh Hotel California a lot  in my classes like we would print out the lyrics  

and I used to use Ironic Alanis Morissette  to try to talk about irony and that's always  

it's always a hard thing to teach even with the  song right and I did the same in French where I  

would get like French rap or interesting  French songs and my high school students  

were so engaged because they loved music they  were excited to listen to some music in French  

and so the same thing yeah like your your  English students it's such an interesting  

way to learn new vocab and it's just fun we  just like hearing music it just feels good to  

the ears you know absolutely and so the third  thing is pronunciation singing along reading  

the lyrics hearing the musician sing it can also  help with your pronunciation so not only is it  

fun but you're getting these great pronunciation  classes just by singing along to music alright  

so in today's episode you guys are going to get  some of our personal recommendations right so  

you can size us up and understand who we are  as people um so Aubry give it to us what is  

your number one recommendation my number one is  the Avett Brothers it's spelled a-v-e-t-t okay  

two brothers and that's a very much Bluegrass  folk type of sound which is a little bit like  

American country but sort of older sounding  and really quick just to talk about those  

types of music you're going to hear classical  traditional instruments right there's a lot of  

um banjo ukulele harmonica sometimes they  play the saw where it's just like I saw you  

would cut a tree and they're playing it like an  instrument so it's this sort of older sounding  

classical acoustic type sound yeah thinking about  the differences between Bluegrass and Country in  

my mind for some reason Bluegrass is a little  cooler that might be because I'm not a country  

music listener but it's got some it's got some  Appalachia to it it makes me think a little bit of  

Nashville although of course country music comes  from Nashville but it makes me think of cool um  

kind of Backwoods but also cool at the same time  hip but also sort of I don't know what how would  

you describe is an interesting native expression  I will say it just has a certain something when  

we don't quite know how to put our finger on  something exactly I agree it has this cool unique  

sound so I feel like country music all originated  from the same sound like what you're talking about  

that kind of Backwoods with just these very basic  instruments and then it sort of splintered off to  

become folk music Bluegrass or that country  American country from that we think of more  

with like the south in the United States yeah and  they each have a very distinct sound now we hear  

a sound and you'd say like okay that's country  western or that's Bluegrass Bluegrass right but  

it's a little hard to describe because they're  sort of using the same instruments but the lyrics  

sort of change and the style has changed well I  was gonna say could could some of it be a little  

less twangy number one and also but country music  has also become a little less twangy but I wonder  

if some of it is the lyrics the focus of the story  because a lot of country music is really just  

um it's about like kind of tragedy sort of  sometimes or like a truck and this and my dog  

and this this kind of thing doesn't seem to have  certain themes right so I feel like Bluegrass is  

a little less like that oh yes I agree and it's  interesting to see how some of them merge right  

some bands will pull in aspects of all of it  because no one is really pigeonholed like we  

say no one is really stuck in a certain genre  or a certain style so sometimes they experiment  

and one album will sound more country and then the  next one will sound more folk or Bluegrass so it's  

interesting but Avett Brothers is very much indie  folk okay some people would call it Bluegrass that  

I want to recommend it to you guys because first  of all it's just beautiful the two songs I would  

recommend listening to First are I and Love and  You is the song and the second one is head full of  

doubt the lyrics are very easy to understand right  because it's more of an acoustic sound with the  

music it's beautiful with the instruments but you  can understand the lyrics so you do want to it's  

always good to follow along with the lyrics that  you can find online but most of these songs you  

are going to understand the lyrics as they sing  it's a little more of like a talking Style with  

the singing a little more approachable a lot  of people say the reason they love country  

music and maybe Bluegrass too is that they can  relate to the lyrics right they feel like it's  

talking about their own lives you know yes and  I think you're going to find that with these  

songs right it is about love and these two songs  and about doubting yourself and things that it's  

The Human Experience everything experiences  these yeah exactly okay what else Aubry so my  

second recommendation is a band that I've loved  since I was very young my first CD was Weezer I  

talked about that new song A Little Bit of Love  they're a very prolific band which means they  

come out with so much music multiple albums each  year and they've done so since 1992 they have so  

many albums my two top recommendations are two of  their newest songs that one a little bit of love  

and the second one's called all my favorite songs  which that continues and it says all my favorite  

songs are slow and sad which I love because it's  like a rock song and it's pretty poppy but the  

message is like all my favorite songs are really  slow and sad but it's such a irony right it's  

really funny I don't think I know Weezer but  that doesn't mean anything my music knowledge  

is very very shallow it's I'm ashamed sometimes  people ask me what do you like to listen to like  

oh here's a few bands you know I'm not a huge  music person to be honest and I should be I  

listen to podcasts when I'm walking not so much  music but I should are you usually listening to  

music or podcast or nothing when you're I think  I think a pretty even blend right okay if I'm  

running for sure music with a beat that keeps  me going um I do like a a stationary bike the  

Peloton and also music well the good the teacher  but if I'm just on a kind of a leisurely stroll  

I'm gonna put on a podcast or if I'm driving I'm  going to listen to a podcast so I get a pretty  

even blend of both interesting okay good to know  good to know well these are good recommendations  

so you're number one it's Avett Brothers right  not Avid leave it okay Avett Brothers and then  

Weezer oh exactly and that one's definitely rock  and roll right Weezer's kind of pop rock I don't  

like but it just says Rock when I looked it up  online so I have a feeling Weezer would not call  

themselves pop at all it's definitely more just  like classic rock and roll but also really great  

Melodies and beats because I don't love all rock  and roll but I love a Weezer I love it all right  

well I could make a recommendation here Aubrey  should I go ahead and throw it out this I want  

to hear two from you as well Lindsay I think we  should share too okay so one band that I really  

love is Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers so I just  saw a special on him last night on the news how  

they I think he passed away a few years ago yes um  but their last tour uh happened in San Francisco  

and just the way they were interviewed and what  they the band said about playing it feels like  

their music is very pure and that they love it for  the music not so much for the fans or for being  

rock stars on tour they actually love the music  itself I get that feeling when I listen to Tom  

Petty I feel like yeah and the band Tom Petty and  the Heartbreakers I always loved them it's very  

melodic and a lot of emotion right I feel I feel  the feels that they're feeling when they sing so  

that makes sense to me exactly and for me a big  part of why I love Tom Petty is more the time in  

my life when I was really listening to him heavily  and that was in high school when I got my first  

car right and he has all these fun songs that kind  of make you want to drive driving music road trip  

music and so many times with my friends being  the first driver among all my friends and just  

going out there on the open road and getting that  freedom so for me Tom Petty is freedom yeah oh I  

love that I love the word Heartbreakers in their  title which is kind of a very idiomatic word right  

to talk about someone being a heartbreaker really  just means that they're very good looking and like  

people like them like they easily right be like  oh she's gonna be a heartbreaker we say that  

about kids that are like cute or whatever and you  know they're gonna grow up and like break a lot of  

Hearts meaning they're gonna probably like date a  lot of people and then leave them by the wayside  

exactly and and the lyrics are thoughtful yeah  it's just pure music in some way for me yeah I  

would say that and then the second recommendation  Aubry is Credence Clearwater Revival all the names  

of the Bands I like are kind of long names but  interesting names CR we call them CCR and they've  

done some songs like Fortunate Son Grapevine Heard  it Through the Grapevine I'm not sure if they were  

the original creators of that one that was a cover  I don't know if it was a cover but check them out  

so I would put them into the classic rock category  I've had people try to tell me it's country but I  

don't buy that I agree it's classic rock because  my dad hates country and he listened to CCR it's  

a very classic rock so it sounds like you and  I both connected with our dads over CCR same  

with me I remember being in the car listening to  CCR with my dad coming back from skiing so again  

music goes back to our connections with people  actually and that's something you guys could  

tie into your conversations with native speakers  around music absolutely right music especially  

what you listen to when you were younger brings  up so much Nostalgia I'm the same I think about  

hanging out with my dad listening to CCR  because he had it on all the time and that  

is such a great thing to ask people about what  kind of music did you listen to as a kid has it  

changed what do you listen to now this is such an  interesting topic of conversation yeah this is so