How To Obsess Over Bands

There'a world out there, bigger than us all. A world where people come together loving all types of genres, a world where people don't base each other on gender, or grades, or outfits. This world involves people of all ages but (mostly between ages of 14 and 19). In this world bandoms are created, and obsessions are growing by the second. I was one of those kids that enjoyed music before I discovered this world, but now I live and breath music. Band feelings have ruined my life, and this is how it happens.

Step One: Discovery,

This step is the beginning, the one that eventually leads into your doom. You can choose not to live this life during this step yet most people don't even see it coming.

Step Two: Like 
You decide that you like whatever band you have just discovered, next you are buying albums, and watching interviews. You now start knowing the members, and start to feel a connection to them. You feel as if this will be a good thing.


Step Three: Attachment
This step utterly leads unto your downfall. At this point you have bought band merch, looked for concerts, replayed songs, and you have grown to love the band members and freak out every time they announce a new tour, album, song, or just update their twitter. This step is falling into your obsession.



Step Four: Feelings
This step is full of emotion, you love them, you hate them. You cry, you scream, you laugh. You feel every single emotion all at once. You are both happy and depressed at the same time.


Step Five: Loneliness

At this point, you are still in denial about your obsession. You say things like, "I didn't choose this life, it chose me." You try to get people around you to understand, and yet they never will. Not everyone can understand ones love for their favorite band. In this step you start shipping the members, traveling hours to concerts, having extreme feelings about the members. You realize you are utterly alone in this step and the only thing to help you in life is bands.


There is no excaping the bandom life, and everyone around you will see it. You are a shell of the band that you obsess with. It's a good life, but many people will never understand.

-Corie D.

p.s Merry Christ(band merch)mas to me :D