You hear a song, you stop what you were doing to close your eyes and let the song seep into you. You smile to yourself!
All of us have a list of such songs that never fail to give us goosebumps! Songs that make us remember that specific place, that special someone!
I, for one, have a playlist of these special songs saved on my phone! Well, what do you know, I even have songs attached to public transport!
My last post on Friendship day has completed a week and I haven’t since then come up with an other idea for my blog. Then this happens.
‘Sunta hai mera khuda’ from Pukar plays on my phone..
I close my eyes.. I’m no longer in the present. I’v been transported to the school auditorium. I’m waiting with bated breath for my turn to sing at the singing competition held for us tenth graders.
Finally it’s my turn! I turn the mike toward me, ready myself as I look around at all the faces. I see some grinning at me and I make a mental note to NOT look at them while I sing lest I end up grinning back at them like an idiot!
The song I chose for the competition – Sunta hai mera khuda.
It’s amazing how some songs get associated with a place or person and how each time they play, they successfully revive the memory!
Sad songs rank no. 1, at least for emotional fools(like ME!) 😀 Bless Bollywood for having an emotional track in every movie, so there’s never a shortage! Almost every sad song is certain to have a memory of a person attached to it! I’m the Queen when it comes to sad songs, given that I can shed tears at the drop of a hat! 😛
I won’t say happy songs have no such memory-refresh capabilities! Of course they do! Why else would I still do the chicken dance on the road when I listen to Nachle ve from Tara Rum Pum!? Even today, thanks to the best choreographer of our group, I can dance to Dil Dooba and Hum dono jaisa! Once again, these songs take me back to the place that has innumerable memories attached to it; SIWS, my school.
For me, that is what today’s songs lack. The ability to help people create memories. Songs come, songs go. Very few stay with us. Oh, they’re probably a smashing hit in the discos and weddings but they fail to touch, if you know what I mean!
I’m a person with a limited choice not without reason. I read into things unnecessarily, I over analyse. I’m actually a dissector! So unless a song strikes a chord with my heart, till it makes me cry or jump with joy, it gets trashed.
Talking of trash, that’s what most of the music directors produce lately. (Apparently, Honey Singh and Badshah weren’t enough!)
What else would you call these songs:
1) Main naachu aaj cham cham cham – Baaghi
2) Baby ko bass pasand hai – Sultan
– the list is endless, I just happened to think of these two.
If you’d be interested in adding trash to this list, please feel free to do so! We could set the dump on fire and help clean the world!
Kindly excuse me for the sudden jump from memory to reality. I’v been desperate for too long to abuse these torturous ‘songs’, so I just grabbed this chance! 😛
Ok, that’s enough of trash!
So readers, take some time out for yourself! Play those memory evoking songs and let them transport you to some place magical! 🙂
P.S. Dear school friends, if I were to list songs of those times and the memories attached to them, it would qualify for a novel!
C.A.: Confused Aquarian 