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Music has grown and matured and has integrated itself into our modern-day society. It’s just a simple fact that everyone needs music. Then, when television came along, it became a social event. Television is the visual equivalent to music, in the sense of the feelings it inspires within us. But music was, and is, such an important part of ourselves, that television felt empty without it. So we threw music into our shows, our sitcoms, our “ dramadies”, our soap operas. Yesterday, I was enjoying a competition show, and I was surprised by how uninspired I was by it. Then it hit me: This is a battle, and there is no music. The music thrown into it adds another element, another feeling. It piques our interest; we get into the program when the intense orchestral music begins to build up at the climax of the battle scene. Slow, melancholy music plays as a character dies, which makes us as the viewers feel as if we were close to the character. In more adult situations, they play romantic music, which implies a scene that they can’t play in mixed company. Music is necessary to add intrest and feeling to our visual entertainment.