if it wasn't apparent from my post on power pop ballads, it should be painfully apparent now: i am in love with top 40 pop. i do not know how this started, but i do know that every time i am the car i turn on the radio. tonight i actually listened to delilah. her breathy voice soothed my tattered little nerves and i sank into her tonally-imbalanced selection of love songs ("you're the one that i want" AND "everything i do i do it for you") with something that very closely resembled relief.
i have a suspicion that my top 40 love started out ironically (like my now very enthused love of the high five, the word "awesome," raising the roof, and shouting "woot woot" in reference to anything from california). it may also coincide with my increasingly frequent steps into the arena known as "middle aged interests" (no offense).
my love for jason mraz is deep, abiding, unironic, and unapologetic. and i am glad that he has made it to the commercially successful world of top 40 pop. like, truly, and selfishly. it means that he's on the radio a lot more. anyway, shortly after moving to iowa i became absolutely convinced that his new song would be on some station at any given moment of the day. my hunch was confirmed on countless drives. but sometime three weeks ago i stopped hearing the song on the radio. completely unacceptable. in retaliation, i started to listen to the radio even more and with a sort of unidentifiable desperation. sure, i could have just bought the song on iTunes but something more was at stake--sanity or something like that. i had become so convinced of my theory--that everything in the world would be okay if i could just hear this one silly song once a day while driving in the car--that it really did feel like a betrayal to find out that i was wrong.
so tonight, after being deterred on detour after detour trying to drive the single mile home, a miracle happened. i was at a stop light staring at all the trees with the christmas lights twinkling. it was dark and really, really cold and i heard the dulcet, cheesy intro of that dulcet, cheesy song and i just started to cry because, well, it was dark, cold, and the christmas lights were twinkling and deep down something unthawed and i was thankful. when i got home i bought the song and it felt oh so right. so this one goes out to jason mraz:
i mean, seriously, so cheesy and so lovely:
Look into your heart and you'll find love love love love
Listen to the music of the moment, maybe sing with me
All - ah peaceful melody
And it's our God-forsaken right to be loved love loved love loved
Monday, 17 November 2008
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