Stuff i think abt in free time

November 27, 2006

U remind me of a song that I once knew

Modern music, not referring to those without vocals, is a way to express how you feel at a certain time, or how you want to feel in a time of your life, or just to hint on your deepest fantasies, even fetishes.
Asian artists are still much more conservative on lyrics where love is still the main topic with wonderful songs that most of the time are of different topics, unlike the International English music scene.
In the past, songs only hint of sex and more on the lovely thoughts of being with that beloved someone. Nowadays, they openly come up with titles like 'I wanna fuck you', or hint in lyrics that how badly they wanna intercourse with someone. As a hot blooded male, I have on problem with it. For the gals, guess these songs make them feel sexy. Yet again, this culture only proves one thing - sex sells.
There was a time when drugs, sex, gambling, and all other sins were not added into music, where you only listen to the BeeGees asking 'How Deep Is Your Love', Air Supply telling everyone that I can't live, if living is without you, and Kenny Rogers is so sure that 'She Belives in Me'.
R&B, Hip Hop and Rap are the mainstream for sex sounds, what type of drugs makes you high and how would it feel to be killing someone or getting killed.
I have no problem with the artists creating such music as i am also a fan of the genre (i still like other types except for house music though). I do have a problem with the young, stupid, or naive minds listening to them.
Admit that when you listen to a song, you want to feel what they're singing and want the song relate to you somehow, anyhow and I would agree that you're just about as normal as the person beside you in the bus or the train, irregardless of race and age.
If you've do understand tamil, and you listen to their songs, their lyrics, you'll laugh your head off! It does nor make any practical sense at all, which sometimes tells alot about them, no offense though. A good song doesn't need over the top lyrics, but if they do have it, it'll be a plus point.
I've always thought of how would it feel if the person my favourite artist was referring to was me while singing it in the car, while bathing, while walking, in the karaoke cantre when i was young. Nowadays, i just sing, and sometimes a sentence in a song would jolt you back to reality fater than you can say bananarama. Jacky Cheung has a song called 'She came to listen to my concert'. I started to pay attention to that song after listening to it in my colleague's car back home. A sentence hit me like an apple on a tree while listening to it a few weeks later. If you do know the song, it is more about a girl who listens to his concert at different stages of her life. My sentence was 'Her boyfriend gave a rose to someone without her knowledge'. Made me think of what the hell i was doing!
All i know is that you shouldn't try to put yourself in a situation to relate to a certain song, a certain song will relate to you, if you are really listening to the lyrics, not just stuffing something to ward off all other noises around you.

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