17 songs...Something I do every new year's eve is turn on my computer and let iTunes run into the new year. Call me crazy but I feel sometimes that whatever songs play within the first hour of the new year will give me an idea of how the year will run. It's been fairly accurate in past years. So this past new year's eve, the same procedure was carried out. Music has been one of the basic foundation of every event that's ever happened to many of us if we really think about it. Whether it be that pop tune with the repetitive rhymes or the gracious sounds of baroque classical from a Johann Sebastian Bach, these words or these notes will serve a memory that will affect the future decisions we make about such event...like a soundtrack...something we can associate with our lives. That is the beauty of human nature. As simple as some may think memory is, it's not just something you remember. It's the experience that re-defined the course of your destination, positively or negatively. Nietzsche once said that "many a man fails to become a thinker for the sole reason that his memory is too good". So memory would be the foundation for regression, no? We just remember what once happened, therefore we feel that this is the way things will develop again and again, so then we fail to evolve, we remain close-minded and we stay away or we try to bring down what we don't understand. Music may have that same effect on you. Wondering if you should break up with someone when suddenly, James Blunt's "Goodbye My Lover" comes on, is a ridiculous example. Or should you be wondering after several failures if you should keep going regarding an area of study or something of the sort, and then Heather Headley's "Proud" comes on...the lyrics will have that effect on you depending on what you're going through. What you need to decide now is how you interpret those lyrics, should you choose to ignore them or pay attention to them. Dr. Samuel Johnson, an English author from the 18th century once said about music that "it is the only sensual pleasure without vice"...Thinking about my analysis, I would disagree with this statement. The vice is that it being heard by human ears and interpreted by human minds. Then again, it can also be a quality and can drive you to feats we once thought unreachable.
So from 2008 into 2009, the year should go a little bit like this:
Closer by Ne-Yo
As Tears Go By by The Rolling Stones
Feel What I Feel by Kat DeLuna
What's It Feel Like to Be a Ghost? by Taking Back Sunday
Darkness Takes Over by Nicholas Hooper
Bleeding Love by Leona Lewis
Thunder by Nuttin' But Stringz
Rock This Party (Everybody Dance Now) by Bob Sinclar
Outrageous by Britney Spears
Hagrid the Professor John Williams
Bring Me Down by Brandy & Kanye West
Get Together By Madonna
Irreplaceable [Irreemplazable][Mix] by Beyoncé
Simple by Katy Perry
Bebot by Black Eyed Peas
Dead Wrong by The Fray
Hands Down by Dashboard Confessional
Interpretation is all up to you now, friend. I wish you a great and happy new year 2009.
"Music is all around us. All you have to do...is listen"
- August Rush
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