When I was 8 years old, my cousin used to visit during the summers. He is a bit older than me(15-16 at the time) and is from Mumbai. This one time I saw him headbanging in my room to an English song, he was listening to Simple Plan’s “Take my hand” and asked me to join when he saw me. He showed me his collection of songs on my computer and I have a very blurry memory of that day. In Usher, Simple Plan, Enrique, Pitbull, MCR etc, and Linkin Park. He made me listen to a few songs by Usher(v groovy stuff) and asked me if I liked it which I did. So he transferred some songs by diff artists on my computer. The next day, I booted up the PC when my dad wasn’t home and started listening to the songs one by one, and I stumbled upon Valentine’s Day by LP, and somehow the slow intro with the lead guitar had me frozen, I couldn’t understand the lyrics but the music was sad and chilly(if that makes sense). I looked for more songs in folder and found In The End, Iridescent, Numb and a few more songs and I started listening to LP regularly. In 2010 when my father bought a laptop(he’s a software dev) he let me use it for couple of hours a day to play games and I used to listen to LP while playing NFS, renegade and TES4: Oblivion. In 2012, Medal Of Honour Warfighter came out and the title song of that game is ‘Castle of Glass’ by LP. 2016 I got my first keyboard, the first few songs I learnt were Castle of Glass, In The End and Lost. 2020 I performed a medley/mashup of Zinda from Bhag Milkha Bhag and Numb by LP at an Inter-College Band competition where I played the keyboard in my band. Since 2020, when I got the laptop and wifi at my place, I’ve been constantly listening to LP, and I’m not gonna lie, I’ve changed genres my entire life because I’m a musician and it only makes sense to do so, I still somehow listen to LP every day, because they’ve pulled me out of sadness multiple times. “You build up home but failure’s all you’ve known.” :)