"And at once I knew, I was not magnificent."
If you want to know someone, really know someone, listen to the songs they talk to you about. Watch them listen to these songs and notice their faces and their bodies change with the music. People might go really quiet and close their eyes and just sway. Or get on top of the nearest table and sing into a hairbrush. Watch them. You'll learn a part of them they wouldn't be able to outrightly display. People come to terms with themselves through their favourite music. Whether it's Carly Rae Jepsen or Sufjan Stevens, they find something in the melody, or in the words, or in the memory it provokes. Don't disregard their love for a song you can't stand; it made them feel something they probably can't even really explain to you.
Which is why I fucking hate music. (saying this only for dramatic effect)
Recently, Bon Iver made me stay up till 6 am and cry for reasons I'm entirely unsure of. How the hell are you supposed to go about with your day when you hear a sound that makes you sit up for a second and notice the goosebumps running down your back? And how is it that the new Coldplay song, in one play, had got stuck into the very recesses of my brain and refused to leave for the entire week? I'm humming it all the time. A screen capture from the video is my desktop wallpaper. You don't get it. It's a disease.
Hey Chaos, stay around.
Love,
Kanika
If you want to know someone, really know someone, listen to the songs they talk to you about. Watch them listen to these songs and notice their faces and their bodies change with the music. People might go really quiet and close their eyes and just sway. Or get on top of the nearest table and sing into a hairbrush. Watch them. You'll learn a part of them they wouldn't be able to outrightly display. People come to terms with themselves through their favourite music. Whether it's Carly Rae Jepsen or Sufjan Stevens, they find something in the melody, or in the words, or in the memory it provokes. Don't disregard their love for a song you can't stand; it made them feel something they probably can't even really explain to you.
Which is why I fucking hate music. (saying this only for dramatic effect)
Recently, Bon Iver made me stay up till 6 am and cry for reasons I'm entirely unsure of. How the hell are you supposed to go about with your day when you hear a sound that makes you sit up for a second and notice the goosebumps running down your back? And how is it that the new Coldplay song, in one play, had got stuck into the very recesses of my brain and refused to leave for the entire week? I'm humming it all the time. A screen capture from the video is my desktop wallpaper. You don't get it. It's a disease.
Hey Chaos, stay around.
Love,
Kanika
I know what you talk of. But, this disease soon subsides, if you overdo it.
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Blasphemous Aesthete
too much of anything is bad for you!
DeleteThis post reminds me of the Greys Anatomy soundtrack. And the Coldplay bit? Every Coldplay fan gets it. :)
ReplyDeleteOh man, the sound guys for GA are just pure geniuses.
DeleteAnd coldplay-hug to you <3
When I got to know that they're making a song for the HG's soundtrack, I was so excited! LOVE it when fandoms collide. Sigh :')
ReplyDeleteHaha yes! Best fandom collaboration :)
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