Just An Expression
As I sit here in my room sifting through LP's and mp3's for an upcoming Valentine's Night DJ set, I realized that throughout the ages people have been singing songs about love. After all, music is just an expression/interpretation of the world we live in, and the questions people have about true love, and finding it and keeping it are on-going and never ending. Love is a central obsession in many parts of our world, and especially in developed nations where people have little to worry about other than those silly feeling of theirs. The concept of love finds it's way into just about every aspect of popular culture, and we learn to except it. For example, in film even the most violent of action heroes can find a scene or two to make-out/get-it-on with the vulnerable love interest, which is absurd and disgusting when you think about it.
The thing is, love is not something that happens to you, it's something that happens within you. Introspection combined with consideration for others are the keys to unlocking that mysterious magic called love, which is why guys like Flavor Flav, Brett Michaels, and Ray J could go ten seasons on VH1 and still never find someone to love.
When a person is capable of love, and finds love, then it comes down to the hardest part, keeping it. Since love is about sharing, and not about possession, the only way for two people to possibly stay in love is through communication, which brings me back to where I started with this post; music as an expression.
In 1971, one of soul music's great survivors, Bobby Womack released an album titled Communication, that yielded the solid "That's the Way I Feel About 'Cha". I feel that this song represents a realistic outlook on the communication between two people that are in love. Also, I'm just a huge fan of the nonchalant half-singing parts he drops during the first verse.
The thing is, love is not something that happens to you, it's something that happens within you. Introspection combined with consideration for others are the keys to unlocking that mysterious magic called love, which is why guys like Flavor Flav, Brett Michaels, and Ray J could go ten seasons on VH1 and still never find someone to love.
When a person is capable of love, and finds love, then it comes down to the hardest part, keeping it. Since love is about sharing, and not about possession, the only way for two people to possibly stay in love is through communication, which brings me back to where I started with this post; music as an expression.
In 1971, one of soul music's great survivors, Bobby Womack released an album titled Communication, that yielded the solid "That's the Way I Feel About 'Cha". I feel that this song represents a realistic outlook on the communication between two people that are in love. Also, I'm just a huge fan of the nonchalant half-singing parts he drops during the first verse.
posted by Jared Thiele at
2:37 AM
5 Comments:
Don't know this one... will check it when I get home!
For your night, try to DL such other sweetsoul as J.R.Bailey, if you've never heard it.
Also, I've been loving Curtis' "Never Stop Loving You" recently--written by Keni Burke.
Love isn't meant to be permanent. It only exists to influence us to let our guard down long enough to have uninhibited, hot sex with our special lady friends, thus passing on our genes. The desire to make it permanent is the result of the pride in ownership. Oscar Wilde said that there are many things that we would throw away if we weren’t afraid someone else would pick them up. Friendship can last, but love, as most people understand it, is just a passing emotion... or something.
Of course, the above depends on your own definition of the word. But one thing is for sure: there's no VH1 show about love. Those shows are just about jack-off material for teenagers and, perhaps, America’s gross infatuation with stupidity.
Like I said in my post, it's all silly feelings anyway, but enough people seem to put love on a pedestal as if it's the greatest thing in the world.
btw, i'm hooked toi that guitar part that plays over pretty much this whole song
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