* FarawaySoClose * ([email protected])
Tue, 11 Aug 1998 13:37:46 PDT
Im 19. Im young (naive and foolish). But I *DID* grow up with
60's/70's bands like The Beatles, Led Zepplin, Split Enz..etc etc etc.
Thats cause my parents played that kind of music. So its kinda arrogant
to assume that just because we youngin's didnt LIVE in the 60s/70s that
we didnt have a similar experience with the music. You guys were
listening to Led Zepplin when you were teenagers.....me too. Just a
coupla decades later. True music is timeless anyways. It speaks to ALL
time, ALL ages.
I've always been attracted to "old" music. Thats cause "new" music
bloody sux! (exceptions, of course). So what your saying is that as a
young person (I, incidentally have always been "10 going on 30") can
only understand "new" music (and I use the word new lightly cause not
much that comes out today musically is actually new.....recycling to the
extreme). Hmmmmm thats interesting cuase I wouldnt have a god damned
clue about what Hanson are trying to say....or the Spice Girls.
This idea that you are "bonded" with U2 because of your ages is also
ridiculous. Im not denying that you are bonded with U2......we all are.
But it isnt a result of our ages. Its a result of that song that always
makes you cry......or the song that calms your nerves.....or the song
that stops you from doing irrational things.......or the one that makes
you sublimely happy. Its about the song that always makes you wanna
dance.....or sits you down so you can have a long hard think. The song
that keeps you company on that long train ride to work/where ever (or in
the car)......the song that reminds you who you are. We all have
different songs.....and that *might* be in part attributed to ur
ages......but its such a small part.
You dont have to have held something in your hand to know what it is.
You dont have to have lived through a war to know that it sux(not to
trivialise it in any way)....and you dont have to believe in god to know
how OTHERS feel about Him. You dont have to have been 20 in 1980 to know
U2. I was 1 in 1980....and I know *MY* U2 better than anyone else in the
entire world. Thats cause they are my U2....and your U2 is an entirely
different thing. Everyones U2 is different. We each bring to the
appreciation and interpretation of art peices of ourselves.My age is
only a tiny, tiny part of who I am.
One of my best friends is 29....and while we dont agree on which song
is *THE BEST* or which album is *THE BEST* or whatever....we havent had
an argument over the interpretation of a song yet. She has 10 years life
experience on me and we both see the *SAME* things in U2s music. Age is
irrelevant.
Ok so hands up classical fans. Hmmm well none of you can understand,
identify, bond with that music cause it was written like 400 years ago
(or more or less but you get the point). Does that stop it moving me to
tears. No.
Scream without raising your voice,
Keira
P.S. I felt physically sick the first time I heard Puff Daddy's "I'll Be
Missing You" (origionally "Every Breath You Take" -The Police). Talk
about taking one of the all time great songs and turning it into CRAP!
Then again I was only 4 when that song was released (1983?? maybe??) so
I cant experience it fully. My mistake.
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