So we came up with this one. We both list the songs that we have been listening to, and explain why they are the songs of the moment. She designed the album art below. (And put up her own playlist here.) Behold, the songs I have had on repeat for the past few weeks:
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| art by www.grewlegs.com |
Two Words, by Ms. Lea Salonga
Nope, can't relate to this song.
But doesn't the purity of that singing voice make you want to believe that there exists a person to whom you can say: No trace of sadness / Always with gladness / I do?
And since there will never be another venue for me to say it anyway, let me put it out here for the record: Lea Salonga slays at being patolera online. I don't mean this sarcastically, ha. I think it's honest, and whatever she says inevitably makes sense. So why the hell not? I wish she had a YouTube channel.
Maybe I'm Amazed, by Dave Grohl and Norah Jones
Nope, can't relate to this song either. Well, I have been amazed with a certain person all too often, who just won't get amazed in return. Let's not talk about it.
Maybe we can just talk about people who post these videos of singers. Who are they? How come I can find pages and pages of these people posting this song, and Norah and Dave aren't among them?
I Shall Be Released, by Nina Simone
Thank God I can't relate to this song. The chill in this melody is completely at odds with the lyrics, isn't it? But it makes for cathartic listening. Just you wait, you thesis. I shall be released.
Ashitta Ni Mukatte, from the YYH OST
This is a song that plays at particularly tender moments of Yu Yu Hakusho. When I sent my list of songs to April, I kept asking her if the song was not familiar at all (I hadn't told her from where I got it). I just can't imagine any 90s kid in the Philippines not watching Yu Yu Hakusho (or Ghostfighter, which is what the series was called here). When the anime aired in the Philippines, cable TV wasn't a thing yet, so most kids were stuck between two channels. (Hah! I sound old.) So there's just no way this song wouldn't be familiar.
And for the record, she said it wasn't, the filthy liar. Anyway, I kept listening to this song because I would put it on and voila, I'm a kid again. My stress falls away, like an involuntary reflex. I can't explain how it happens, it just does.
I tried looking up the meaning of the song, and the closest I got was, "thinking about the future," Good God, I don't want to relate to that just right now.
Marvin Gaye, by Charlie Puth and Meghan Trainor
Ahahaha, bakit ba, bastos eh. Aaaand still can't relate. Fuck this shit.
