Don't fret I ain't going to list kazillion of songs I had which I don't even listen to. But these are 3 songs I that I played back to back and if you're my housemate these songs will stick to your head for days. I really mean it.
1. Katy Perry - The One That Got Away
This song and the lyric somehow bring me back to high school days. Even though I never had a lover back then but somehow I can picture myself just like the lyric. When I listen to this song, I feel young, innocent and naive. Indeed when we were young at that ages we always plan the future. I remember one day, my bestfriend Fathin and his then-boyfriend Muaazam made a pact, if they are not married when they turn 28, they were going to marry each other even if they were no longer together by then. Now they both 29 years old, Fathin married another man and Muaazam (his wife actually) happily popping up babies, he had a son and just recently the blessed with a daughter.
You see my point, when we were young we were so naive. We thought the world going to be how we want it to be. But being an adult is not how it crack up to be. Sucks . Katy Perry really teleports me back to time. God knows how many time I repeat this song. Thanks god I got earphone and no one sit next to me in the office else someone would've kill me with a blunt pencil.
Another reason, herm I can't really write this on but all I can tell I'm the one that got away and I think I no longer their muse so before I start to listen to the "music" of which definitely not an ear candy, it's like a perfect timing for me to leave. Unlike the song, I won't expect for another life to make that person ask me to stay. It's just enough. It's been bland for a year despite my many attempts to spice it up. You got the picture.
2. Mumford and Sons - Little Lion Man
This song by the English band fits many categories why I'm obsessed and can't have enough of it. One of the obvious reason, their tunes sounded Irish-y. Maybe the fiddle. Some people knows how obsess I am with Irish and Ireland. Who can I blame? The media. Grown up with The Corrs, Boyzone, Westlife and watching Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog (even though it's actually American TV series shot in Ireland), all these (media) exposure shape the Irish and Ireland in my head. Like a euphoric. Few friends told me about Irish and the Ireland (government) and how fucked they were but I refused to listen. I have to be there to hate but for now let me have some Irish fetish in my head, I told them.
The other reason is, the lyric.
Weep for yourself, my man,
You'll never be what is in your heart
Weep Little Lion Man,
You're not as brave as you were at the start
Rate yourself and rake yourself,
Take all the courage you have left
Wasted on fixing all the problems
That you made in your own head
I'm born a Leo The Lion. I used to be so brave before with Just Do It as my motto. Now it's like the lion has been domesticated into a pussy cat. I have about 40 plus days before going back to Malaysia but I constantly doubt my decision. Whether will it the best ever I made made or will it be the end of my heyday. I have no idea why I feel that way. At the age of 24 I left the country without thinking much and look where it got me- everywhere. But right now as I'm approaching 30 I became a very analytic person constantly asking myself the "what if" situation- the negative way. I serious hate my head now. I wish I could replace it with my 24 year-old head. Much simpler and a risk taker. Perhaps that's what I should do. Drop everything here just like how I dropped a promising career as a PR Executive back in 2007. Plus I got nothing to loose in here. I got no baggage. I serious need to put my head to one thing- which is to commercialise Kuih Sarang Semut (for Raya 2011) rather constantly making plans (like if plan A doesn't work better have plan B to Z. See, all it got me just a negative ones) as what the lyric said, wasted on fixing all the problems that you made in your own head.
Unlike the song, they have fucked it up but it's not too late for me. I still got time to NOT fuck it up. That's why I constantly play this song in my iTunes- to motivate me, to remind me who I was before. The Little Lion Man from Asia.
3. Sugarland - Stuck Like Glue
This country band, I never heard of it before. Just because they are not world famous (not until last night) they weren't good. They got awesome tunes. Last night I watched American Idol result show and this band played this song. I was like, this is really catchy. I missed when Ryan S introduced the band. At first I thought they were Lady Antebellum. But after they finished performing Ryan said some like Sugar blalala. I missed it again. So I thought sugar ray. Then I googled. Nay, wrong one. Hurm, I typed new keywords sugar + american idol. I scrolled down the list and voila, I found it on a country music website. Don't you just love Google? Best invention ever.
Immediately I downloaded them on iTunes. Since I got over 30 dollar iTunes credit (thanks to ASB Bank). Since then and now, which is 12 hours from the first time that song debuted in my head I have listen to it over 20 times! Yes, I'm obsessed. It's so catchy I want to keep dancing and moving and it just make me happy. Like a drug for me.
That's all for now, enjoy the rest of the weekend.
xoxo,
Ed
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