Today
after church my family and I decided to go to dinner. It was a new place we’ve
heard about but had never been. I was having a perfectly enjoyable time,
laughing with the family when the first few beats of the Pharell Williams Happy
came on over the radio speakers. I immediately dropped my head to my chest
disgusted. My family on the other hand had zero idea of what was going on. Mom
thought there was something wrong with my food, Dad thought someone came in the
door that I didn’t want to see. If only it could have been those things, or an
alien ship landing on the roof, anything other than what it was I’d have been
happy. That song ruined for me a perfectly enjoyable time and it was ALL I
could hear, I know…I know don’t give it the power… just don’t listen…but that’s
not possible. I know it’s on it’s being played around me and there’s nothing I can
do. I can’t temporarily go deaf -- oh my god that would be a fantastic superpower
-- if you could turn it on and off like a light switch.
As
you can tell… I HATE that song. I was told I just didn’t understand it which is
basically a giant middle finger waved in my face. So I gave it a chance, I read the lyrics, I listened to the song several times. I even sat through the video more than once. I have watched perfectly
intelligent people enjoy the song and dance around with their kids to it all laughing
and having a perfectly wonderful time … I just don’t get it. At best it sounds
like we are listening to a dude on the bus having a phone conversation and we
only hear his side of it making him sound even more schizophrenic than a
businessman in terminal 3 talking on a blue tooth device.
I
hold music in high regard, musicians are these amazing poets who see the world
differently that most and should be respected but I just…that song…I can’t. It
just eats away at my soul and makes me want to scream! If a brand new artist
walked into his first meeting with a record company with this song he’d have been
laughed out of the room and his contract ripped up and thrown away right in
front of him/her.
However
all that aside what really gets me about this song, and most pop type songs, is
that days from now I’ll still be singing that damn hook in my head. Just randomly
in some meeting or driving to work it will pop up and I’ll start singing it in
my head and start looking for a blunt instrument to hit myself with. That
happens yet I can’t remember important things like pick up milk two minutes
after I leave the house to get milk. I hate that effect music can have on people,
especially since there’s nothing I can do about it. I guess I just wish if a
subliminal message were going to be implanted into my brain that it’s be
something useful in everyday life… I don’t know like the name of the 7 dwarfs
or the quantities of ingredients from say cups to quarts or even birthdays of
family and friends, hell the digits of Pi, anything remotely useful in life would
be great but no…that’s not what I get…what I get is … “Cause I’m happy!” over
and over in my head…and now dear reader you have it too and thus I’m no longer
alone, so thanks for reading and thanks for listening. Rant is now over resume
your Sunday activities.
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