There are those songs we listened to as kids and grew up to find them completely not the hot cross buns sorts(hahahahahaa) that we should have linked to childhood. I find myself confused as to why and how did my parents not revolt to my obviously promiscuous taste in music even as I was all of 25 inches( i know what you're thinking). Then there was the cartoon network and that episode on power puff girls when everyone turned into cats and finally when they save the world by turning everyone back to humans the mayor is licking a cat's kitty. The more I think back the more I find content that could have been hilarious if I was an adult but I wasn't- and I never thought the mayor was a horny guy. Now I'm all of 68 inches(now you know better) and my brain finds amusement in innocuous men holding hands on the pavement. Dirty is the new favorite word in my brain and mostly everything makes sense with that being the logic. Maybe the origin to this development stems from these affectations that I was afflicted with as a kid but that's a discussion for another time. I'm going to post my musical timeline that are identifiers to the different times I was a part of and you can laugh with me if you felt the same damn way. In fact, post your favorite tunes and obviously corresponding inches in case you want to feel stupid happy.
Infancy
Ya of course I remember that song. Mama's loudest decibel point and it was the same with you. I am surprised we mostly come out with decent hearing. Hmmm actually maybe we all had that expendable ears range but that screaming deafened us and leaves us as mere mortals :( Now we can't be Goerge or Fred Weasley.
25 inches
Boom Boom Boom,
I want you in my room
gonna spend the night together
together in my room.
Don't you lie to me, I know you loved that one too. I still don't know what to say. I loved everything sweet, boys traded scratches with me and I thought one day i'd fly on a cow to Pluto.
40 inches
Backstreet Boys. Blue eyes was my drug then and I dreamt of shipping off to the U.S. and marrying Nick. I can't believe i'm owning up to it. But well, every other boy smelled strange, I wore two plaids and my favorite instrument was my cool merry- go- round sharpener.
58 inches
Now it was time to finally grow up and I certainly did. System of a down and Slipknot teamed with some harmless vandalism helped make me feel normal and calmed me down. I could rap to Chopsuey with a sort of vigour the bloody nazis would never know since they already were grown men and I bet they had a nagging suspicion about Hitler( I'm guessing because of his choice of moustache and general fashion sense)
68 inches
This is Class 10 by the way-and i haven't grown since :/ I remember watching my juniors in school singing Avril's girlfriend tune to death and I was a little obsessed with mass murders due to this. Think about it- What is the most creative way to kill 10 or 12 class 6 girls and be called generous. I never found the answer- i mostly thought of stilettos but that's coz i couldn't walk in them without feeling slightly suicidal. Anyway I already had a couple of crushes, I belonged to ze coolest band- Deranged Angst and I wondered what my identity was and if this life meant anything- yup teens! I guess i am a late bloomer. Evanescence rocked my world and I could fake sing in my Amy Lee falsetto pretty well.
68 inches, 50 kgs
This is college and Stephens allowed me to sink my teeth into the world music scene and suddenly Porcupine Tree, Brahms, Jacqueline du pre, Sigur Ros, and the like became my retreat from bad days and that was mostly everyday. I had realized that now you had to study to score a 70 percent and that never sat too well on me. So I found my space, the delhi free bird. That entailed being a slacker; albeit a bindi wearing, cool music peddling, Murakami reading snob.
Now i'm 58 kgs and well I listen to all music including Katy Perry on that day when I know there will be more days. Right now i'm wondering about the future of mankind and that's why i went back to my childhood and the answer was clear- it's Rebecca Black and her groupies taking it over- Doomsday is close. We had Vengaboys and well ignore the lyrics but they had a good tune. Now it's hot problems (people please listen to it if you haven't because education is best off google- it's free!) and most music involves no real instrument (read edm, trance, dark dub step- dammit there are too many genres).
What I wonder is that will my kids be singing to 99 different orgy styles and will their Prince Charming be a Delhi boy. Oh I hate those deodrant stinking amplifier listening tight tee wearing breed. But that's coz I grooved to Celine Dion too.
I think my father did it for me with his Deep Purple records and evening guitar strumming sessions. Now I breathe air and I listen to music. What am i listening to right now?
Zara Zara Behekta Hain from RHTDM but in my defense that's not an everyday thing- I'm feeling sentimental and i don't trust men.
Infancy
Ya of course I remember that song. Mama's loudest decibel point and it was the same with you. I am surprised we mostly come out with decent hearing. Hmmm actually maybe we all had that expendable ears range but that screaming deafened us and leaves us as mere mortals :( Now we can't be Goerge or Fred Weasley.
25 inches
Boom Boom Boom,
I want you in my room
gonna spend the night together
together in my room.
Don't you lie to me, I know you loved that one too. I still don't know what to say. I loved everything sweet, boys traded scratches with me and I thought one day i'd fly on a cow to Pluto.
40 inches
Backstreet Boys. Blue eyes was my drug then and I dreamt of shipping off to the U.S. and marrying Nick. I can't believe i'm owning up to it. But well, every other boy smelled strange, I wore two plaids and my favorite instrument was my cool merry- go- round sharpener.
58 inches
Now it was time to finally grow up and I certainly did. System of a down and Slipknot teamed with some harmless vandalism helped make me feel normal and calmed me down. I could rap to Chopsuey with a sort of vigour the bloody nazis would never know since they already were grown men and I bet they had a nagging suspicion about Hitler( I'm guessing because of his choice of moustache and general fashion sense)
68 inches
This is Class 10 by the way-and i haven't grown since :/ I remember watching my juniors in school singing Avril's girlfriend tune to death and I was a little obsessed with mass murders due to this. Think about it- What is the most creative way to kill 10 or 12 class 6 girls and be called generous. I never found the answer- i mostly thought of stilettos but that's coz i couldn't walk in them without feeling slightly suicidal. Anyway I already had a couple of crushes, I belonged to ze coolest band- Deranged Angst and I wondered what my identity was and if this life meant anything- yup teens! I guess i am a late bloomer. Evanescence rocked my world and I could fake sing in my Amy Lee falsetto pretty well.
68 inches, 50 kgs
This is college and Stephens allowed me to sink my teeth into the world music scene and suddenly Porcupine Tree, Brahms, Jacqueline du pre, Sigur Ros, and the like became my retreat from bad days and that was mostly everyday. I had realized that now you had to study to score a 70 percent and that never sat too well on me. So I found my space, the delhi free bird. That entailed being a slacker; albeit a bindi wearing, cool music peddling, Murakami reading snob.
Now i'm 58 kgs and well I listen to all music including Katy Perry on that day when I know there will be more days. Right now i'm wondering about the future of mankind and that's why i went back to my childhood and the answer was clear- it's Rebecca Black and her groupies taking it over- Doomsday is close. We had Vengaboys and well ignore the lyrics but they had a good tune. Now it's hot problems (people please listen to it if you haven't because education is best off google- it's free!) and most music involves no real instrument (read edm, trance, dark dub step- dammit there are too many genres).
What I wonder is that will my kids be singing to 99 different orgy styles and will their Prince Charming be a Delhi boy. Oh I hate those deodrant stinking amplifier listening tight tee wearing breed. But that's coz I grooved to Celine Dion too.
I think my father did it for me with his Deep Purple records and evening guitar strumming sessions. Now I breathe air and I listen to music. What am i listening to right now?
Zara Zara Behekta Hain from RHTDM but in my defense that's not an everyday thing- I'm feeling sentimental and i don't trust men.
NO! What you're doing is referring to and probably also listening to popular music. When I say popular it doesn't indicate the 'Pop' genre as such, although they're essentially one and the same. I won't use the word mainstream music here cuz then I'd be just urging you to dive into the stereotypical realms of le Hipsters.
ReplyDeleteYes you had the usual course through the ocean of music as you grew and with each increment in height you found better music, or so you thought and also reflected the recent past as naive and frivolous. It was just you then, such as you now.
What is most important and what reflects through your piece of writing here is the sense that you have been taken aback by the music that is getting all the attention today while neglecting all the more beautiful and amazing music that is also exploding alongside but not getting as much acclaim, which I think is always the case. There still is the music you like that is being created all the time and that should give you a reason not to worry about the future as much. It'll be just the same as your journey.
The elder sibling will introduce the younger to amazing music. The younger will get influenced but eventually develop his/her taste. The elder will then discover new and amazing music through the younger at a later stage and will love it because it's roots lie in what he gave the younger to begin with. Same in case of friends. you have an attachment to Deep Purple; your kids shall have an attachment to Katy Perry.. or not. hope not. God NO.
l listen to soley, hungry ghosts, celia cruz, list, aurora borealis, mogwai, explosions in the sky, the penguin cafe orchestra. . . but I also listen to gaga and Katy Perry and La Roux for what she's worth. Soley has 140,000 views Katy Perry has 47,000,000 views. That wasnt the point of the piece anyway. What is the newest development in music- its synthetic sound and no lyrical prose. independent music will exist as the jews did in Germany. But that doesn't change the sound of the future- displacement and disenfranchisement. That's basically me- dd! im just horsing around, but im glad i got you riled up. Its some sort of recognition.
ReplyDeleteRiled up? No. Disenfranchisement? I doubt they teach that word anywhere other than Stephens'.
ReplyDeleteSynthetic sound and no lyrical prose is just an ushering into the new and an acceptance of the time we're living in. The electric guitar and amps were the same in the 60s. There is nothing wrong with it, apart from the fact that it can sound full of crap at times. Then too there are those who use the most uncanny of sounds and beat patterns, thing our ears aren't even tuned to comprehend in the first few listen but are essentially the mastering of the art of electronic music. (Ref. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVuqB2PbhwU&feature=related)
As for no lyrical prose; it has always been a lyricist playing fiddle with the gullible. Some lyrics are made to fascinate millions and while others are only there too fill in the gaps of the melody and rhythm. Lyrics have no meaning, only interpretations, which of course in itself is the best thing about them. (Ref. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iFrC-8BjZY)