Music

hi,

been listening to a lot of music recently....
i always believe that the kind of music a person likes or enjoy depicts the persons personality and character...

my dad's fav song is green green grass of home, ...haha, but i dont have an all time favourite song...

i listen to lots of different kinds of music...pop, rnb, cabaret, opera (especially b4 exam, can release tension), musicals, pop rock etc...can be in english, mandarin or malay...but canto seldom lar..

my current favourite songs are take a bow from rihanna and leavin' from jesse mcchartney..

but that's not the point of this post...the point i wanna bring is......

the power of art...

some people like to read novels because they totally throw themselves into the story that they are reading using their imagination...to the point that they totally feel for the character of the story....until it totally affect their mood and thinking in real life...

now, i believe that this kind of 'power' can also be translated through music...certain messages can be literated through the lyrics and emotions can be reflected through the melody and rhythm of a song....

last night, quynh and I were having a mini 'karaoke' session...haha, and we were like showing each other songs that we like on 'youtube'.....and she did intro me some songs that was kinda nice.....but there was this particular song that stuck on my mind up till now....which is this particular song....

'Gloomy Sunday'....now, this song is also known as the Hungarian Suicide song....apparently, many suicides have been linked to this song as it is a really depressing song...i wiki'ed this song and found out that this song has been re sung many times...and it was made popular by billie holiday...both the original composer and the singer commited suicide,,,and long long time ago, during the world war 2, this song was banned in Hungary as it was said to have been linked to many suicide cases....even in the US, it had been banned from it being played on radios and clubs...but now no more lar..many people have resung this song.....

but quynh insisted that there's actually nothing wrong with this song....and everything was a mere coincidence...but i think no lor...there must be something with this song that made its listeners sad...but in my opinion, different ppl hav different interpretations...
but to tell u the truth, i dare not listen finish the whole song...i've just heard like 10 seconds into the song, and i got a bit freaked out when i heard about the background of this song...this song is ranked as one of the saddest song ever...but many singers have resung this song and they are totally fine and embracing life...so it's ok lar..but still...
so ppl, if u r scared, then pls dont listen to this song...i m not responsible for your mental wellbeing..thank you...

but like i said, i totally believe in the power of music...and i find this incident very spooky....just like the curse of the eyptian mummy tombs...

i m scared, that's why i only listen to happy songs...=) like the Barney song....