At the moment I keep getting stuck on a single song that I
feel the need to play over and over again. The other day it was 'Total Eclipse of the Heart' by Bonnie Tyler-I just kept playing it on repeat and singing
along ALL DAY. Then came the turn of 'Let’s Fall In Love' by Ella
Fitzgerald-again it got put on repeat and I couldn't stop singing it. More
recently when I was feeling miserable it was Poison's 'Every Rose Has Its Thorn'* because it has words that I can relate to almost too well. I don't know why I keep getting taken over with the urge to listen to only one song for an entire day, but it keeps happening, so I just go with it.
I love singing, I've always sung things-whether it's
bursting into song because someone said a phrase that's also a song lyric or
just generally singing along to my music late at night so my parents come and
tell me off because they can hear me downstairs. It's probably annoying as hell
if you're one of my friends and I interrupt our conversation with random music,
but I love it. It always makes me sad when I have a cold because I can't sing
all the time. I'm not really a very musical person-I don't have (as my bass
tutor put it) an internal metronome and I couldn't tell you what a note was if
someone played it to me if I tried. But song lyrics stay with me forever-once I've
learned them, whether it was for a show or just by listening to them on repeat
hundreds of times, I know them for good. I might not get the tune spot on but I
will know the words!
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I am someone who connects to songs completely-there's so
many songs that speak to me, and have done throughout my life. Whatever the
situation, whether I'm feeling happy or sad, there's a song lyric that reflects
this. Songs that make me cry, songs that make me happy, songs that just make me
go “YES. This person understands.” I love them all! In a way I collect them-I
remember | all the songs that have held
significance to me over the years, even if they don't any more. There's songs
that will always remind me of people and will invoke memories in me, both happy
and sad. There's songs that I can't listen to any more without giggling because
me and a friend have either turned them into a personal joke, or misheard the
lyrics, or just had a good time whilst they was playing. Similarly, there's
songs which I actively avoid listening to because I know they'll just make me
feel upset. I guess I have a kind of Pavlovian response to songs-they will
always make me feel the same emotions that I have subconsciously attached to
them as when I first discovered them. I wouldn't change it though, wouldn't go
back and have those lyrics mean nothing to me again, because they're all
significant for so many reasons, so many events in my life. My songs are
important to me, and always will have a hold over me, and I wouldn't be without
that for anything.
-Jenni-
*My music taste is nothing if not eclectic!
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Stopping by from Lisa-Jo's! Glad it's not just me that music has such a hold on. Glad you posted today!
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I love that you were honest about your five minutes! I have a friend that is a speech therapist. She tells me some of her elderly patients that can no longer talk can still sing.
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I love to sing... I am always singing! In fact, I MIGHT drive my co-workers crazy because I sing off and on for the entire 8 hours! HA! But I love it!! Like you though, I couldn't tell you what note is what. I sang in choirs & performed in voice competitions, but am clueless on music theory! But songs keep me going... I love music :)
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