Monday, January 11, 2010
Negative Music
I try to not be very negative to music, but it happens. For instances, I really do not like Mariah Carey for reasons I’m not going to discuss right now. What I will write about instead is two songs that I have equal strong negative feelings towards, making it hard to just pick one of them. It’s not a genre, because they are from separate ones. The songs are “You’re Beautiful” by James Blunt and “Every Breath You Take” by The Police. The James Blunt song was very popular a couple years ago, it is difficult to try and avoid the song when every single girl within 5 yards had the song as a ringtone. Initially, the first 5 seconds of the song are good, nice beat, an almost pleasurable sound, but then he opens his mouth. His voice is like nails on a chalk board for me, all whiney, scratchy, irritating, and really just annoying. The lyrics have some potential, if they were rewritten. Singing a song for a random girl, telling her how beautiful she is, that’s a bit weird. Now for The Police, really it is just the lyrics that bother me. I don’t have a problem with The Police, I’m partial to Roxanne. But “Every Breath You Take” is often played at weddings, romantic events, etc… If you look at the lyrics, however, it’s a lot creepy and a lot stalker-ish. It is not at least bit romantic in my opinion. It really annoys me that it is perceived as a romantic song.
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Harsh! I enjoy your'e beautiful by James Blunt. Thats the beauty in music and something i posted about earlier. It doesn't work for you but it can work for another.
ReplyDeleteoh I LOVE you're beautiful. The situation described in the song is beautiful and sad at the same time. I guess i'm just the kind of person who loves to love. I hear this song and it just seems so amazing that he has seen this girl who we know he knows nothing about, but he's got this image of who she is in his head and he knows she's amazingly beautiful. He knows she isn't necessarily who he thinks she might be, but it's sad 'cuz he'll never know because he'll never see her again. She was just a beautiful face in the crowd that he would've given anything to know more about...makes me a little emotional just thinking about it. I even had a very similar dream once where I saw this girl in a store and then again on a subway, and then again when she was driving in the car beside me, but I never got the opportunity to talk to her. I woke up pretty sad the next day. That's probably way more than u asked for, but that song is just great
ReplyDeletei don't really like too much james blunt due to that song being overplayed, so i can relate to your negative feelings on that. yeah i agree that police song is quite stalker-esque.
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