I've been spending way too long checking my tongue in the mirror
And bending over backwards just to try to see it clearer
But my breath fogged up the glass
And so i drew a new face and i laughed
it made me laugh too. this is one of the verses from the song "I'm yours" by Jason Mraz. Its a very catchy and happy tune, played on the guitar.. you listen to it and suddenly your heading is bobbing one side to the other, you are humming it yourself and you have a smile on your face. the song stayed in my head after a night's sleep and since i am very bad at understanding the accent i didn't know the words only the tune. and then when i started feeling guilty about not even knowing the lyrics, i spent the afternoon with this song on repeat mode till i am sure my housemates had had enough of it.
that reminds me. they gave me this song. so the scene plays out like this. i walk in from my sweaty exhausting Bikram Yoga workout ready to gobble down any food i can lay my eyes / hands on. the guys are watching fight-club on tv (not the movie) where the participants are enticing people to come and watch them, with this tune playing in the background. sweet happy tune not at all like the kicks they were landing on their opponents necks. i know i have heard it somewhere, i wonder aloud. and one of my housemates admits its his guilty pleasure. that led to a night of guilty pleasure songs being queued up on youtube. but that came later. i was curious about this concept of guilty pleasure. so they say coz its a cheesy song. now i am curious whats cheesy. so urbandictionary.com told us Celine Dion is cheesy. why because she has a fake emotions in her song, the lyrics don't evoke a softness in your heart, they make you go urgh with too much mellowness that doesn't seem genuine. fair enough. i didn't admit i only know 2 of her songs, both of which i like a lot. (aah - now i have my guilty pleasure too - i have been trying since then to find mine!)
so anyway. guilty pleasure is in this case a song that you like, coz it makes you feel happy, you find the tune very hummable, and yet admitting this would be embarrassing. i wonder since when did it become embarrassing to admit i am happy. oh no, its because you are not supposed to feel happy about that particular song, coz no one else does. oh! now i get it. so a supposedly cheesy song, which makes you feel happy but not everyone else is guilty pleasure. forget it - too complicated. we like something or we don't like something. but more than that we care about what people perceive us as based on our likes or dislikes. and didn't i just admit that i was embarrassed to admit i like Celine's songs?
its a pity we live our lives choosing our likes and dislikes based on others approval. what if each one of us is doing that? what if this song is a guilty pleasure of a lot of us? at least there are some people in amsterdam who dare to attend Jason's live concert and sing this song aloud with him. keep making those songs dude! way to go!
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