Saturday 22 October 2011

Something You Already Know About Love Songs

Sometimes, when you’re done with studying for Mathematics paper one and two, you just want to listen to some music and… feel emotion, as opposed to the logic you’ve been forcing on your brain for the past ten hours.

For example, when I was at maths tuition today, I heard this song blaring out of some random gangster (Reservoir Hills gangster, it’s an Indian thing) – it’s called Pee Loon Hoto Ki Sargam. Yes, I do enjoy the odd Hindi song – but it kinda has to be amazing for me to love it. Anyway, I heard a single verse during the extent of the gangster’s revving and speeding past the road. It struck me as quite sweet, so I used that nifty Google button and found it. Wow. It’s beautiful…and I’m currently listening to it for the 20th time while typing this. I almost cried.

And that’s when it struck me. A good love song doesn’t necessarily make you think of one particular person and invoke emotion as a result of that person – a good love song basically makes you feel love by listening to merely the words and rhythms. It catalyses emotional change unto itself, not through the vector of someone’s predetermined crush.

I think that when a song truly speaks to you, when a song invokes true emotion… that’s when some great cosmic relationship is formed between the singer and your tympanic membrane. And the beating of the membrane…is amazing.