Thursday, July 22, 2010

My friend likes the songs on my blog! I duno where to start when talking about songs. For me, liking a song has to do with whether it gets in touch with your emotions. I love soulful songs, with nice soothing melodies and angelic voices. Most of these songs tend toward the romantic side, or RnB genre. She would use to just listen to the song's melody and not really take note of the lyrics; that's her, she can focus so much on one thing and be so good at it. And she would always pick songs that corresponded to her mood at that specific time, though she denies it.

A picture paints a thousand words, but songs give you that emotional link, and it creates the mood and atmosphere. Uplifting songs make you happy, emo songs make you sad; and the good thing about being emo is that you don't lose track of the past. Nostalgia is part of being emo, and I find that life has meaning only when we experience our fair share of sadness. Songs can also revive memories, reveal certain truths that we ourselves cannot see, help us dream or envision the future, and be used as a form of expression. I used to pick songs that fit the expression of love I wanted to give to her; I took note of the lyrics and what they were saying, and only when one is able to appreciate lyric and melody as a whole, can the entire meaning and impact of the song be felt.

I hadn't thought about this before, but there suddenly seems to be something in the order of songs on my blog. Though it's just a random arrangement, where I put the song i liked best in front, now it kinda seems to me like the order is telling me something: that all good things come to an end. The starting song is one of the saddest songs I know of, second only to Whiskey Lullaby maybe. It talks of love, longing, and loss. This degenerates (even though Bruno Mars's song is cheerful) to 'Count on Me', which talks about friends, and I can't help but cross-refer Nelly Furtado's song "All Good Things", which contains the chorus: "Flames to Dust, Lovers to Friends, Why do all good things come to an end?"

Gosh, blogging does seem to help My Brain keep active and ready for school in about a month's time!