Not anymore...
Though CDs of adored singers can be bought
Though iPod can play and replay those favourite songs over and over again
I still love the radio
For the magic it weaves when a favourite tune is spinned, a favourite song is played.
While I can't decide on the playlist, stop the irritating commercials , or know what song is going to be played next, this unknown also creates an anticipation that heightens the enjoyment of the song when it's finally played. A jolt of delight and an appreciation of the song that hearing a song from a personalised playlist can't replicate.
Back in pri and sec sch days, there were no radio websites to display the songs being played. The happiness of hearing a nice song is very often accompanied by the agony of not catching the song title and not knowing wat song it is. What typically follows would be days of waiting, much hoping, some exasperation and a little guessing till the song is played on air again.
Today, a click on the radio website will tell of the song being played. And lyrics and mp3s are plentiful so that the song once discovered , can be downloaded and saved, looped and played repeatedly.
But the waiting makes hearing the song so much sweeter and relished, back then. The rush to grab a paper and pen. To jot down the lyrics as fast as possible. To retain as much of the melody as the brain can hold and the incessant humming after that to remember and memorise the song.
I miss that feeling.
In these days of instant gratification and excesses.
Where movies are most of the time, last minute affairs dulling the anticipation/elaborate planning and booking of tickets that used to be
Where one keeps dishing out rewards onto onself that they don't inspire nor empower like before
Where sales are so commonplace they fail to excite anymore
As i watched Charlie and the Chocolate Factory days ago, I wondered if chocolate would still taste as precious and heavenly to Charlie after that golden ticket that can now convert those rationed nibbles on the chocolates to indulgent munching and gorging...
posted by Cranberrymist at 1:26 AM
5 Comments:
hey girl.. i personally feel this surge of emotion when I hear a particular song... such that cannot be reenacted.. why are u feeling this way?
Doesnt the ephemeral play of a song trigger any emotion anymore?
muchlove, purplefreak
purplefreak: don't really get wat u r saying. Even had to clarify the meaning of a word on dictionary.com *blush*...
Songs do evoke those emotions in me, whether they r played once or many times.
Jus tt i feel that many times, ephemerality makes something/ someone seems more precious, and thus more treasured and appreciated. When gd things come in large doses, the magic is lost and things become merely a part of routine, normality.
Yep.. I share the same sentiments.. that's why i'm more a radio person then a iPod user..
This post just lets me know that i'm not alone in our now MP3 word of iPods & Zens Users.. people just dun understand the beauty of just listening to tunes not from a pre-picked playlist...
Yes dear..the radio's gd during those drives rite?:)
I totally feel the same way!!!!
Manz...yesterday i was deciding whether i should spend money on one of the CD that was pretty old and had heaps of songs that i like. But i was on a tight budget. I was on the fone with my fren when i was in the shop...and i said "I reckon i won't listen to the CD over and over again anyways. It's better to catch the song on the radio and feel REALLY happie that the timing is just right!" =)
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