This is such a great song, I can't listen to it!
I know this is weird, but a sign of a really GREAT song is one that I miss completely.
Y'see, it's an ADD thing.
Music is one of the few things that can turn my ADD off. The way it manifests is that I just can't stop thinking, I can't shut my brain off or put it in low gear...like, ever. Unless I have certain external stimuli, or unless I exhaust myself physically, my brain just keeps going and going, a constant internal litany of stuff. And while I'm sure this is true of a lot of peoples' brains, it's matter of degree and, um...how loud a voice your brain has. And how much control you have over it; in my case, none.
But the right song can...it's hard to describe...it can fill the gap that the perpetual thought is trying to occupy. I mean, that really is why my brain never shuts up: it can't stand silence, a lack of stimulus, so it makes its own. But when that lack is filled from an external source, suddenly the brain's attention span is sated and I can concentrate on other things.
Not just any stimulus will do, tho; most are okay, but there are some which are just perfect, fitting into the attention span like a jigsaw.
One such stimulus is "Fading Like a Flower", by Roxette. This song is so perfect, it fits into my brain's attention gap like nothing else. And its a beautiful song, too; my favorite song of all time, in fact. Especially the guitar part starting at about 3:13 on the video linked above...there'z just something about it that makes my heart swell.
Now here's the ironic part: when something fits that well into my brain...I don't hear it. Not unless I concentrate deliberately. It fits so well, feels so natural, that if I'm doing something else--working on my comic, maybe--I completely miss the song because suddenly I can focus my attention as I couldn't without the song. I simply don't notice it until I hear the song ending, and I'm like, "Fuck! I missed it!"
Seriously; I just rewound "Fading Like a Flower" about four times before I finally felt like I'd really heard it.
Maybe this doesn't make sense to anyone who doesn't have ADD, I d'know. Maybe it doesn't even make sense to people who DO have it. But, well...welcome to my world. Y'ever wondered why I'm so weird or why I seem to have a ready pun all the time...it's cuz my brain is composing, free-associating, during every waking moment I've got, and only certain things can make my brain shut the fuck up and let me concentrate...
Y'see, it's an ADD thing.
Music is one of the few things that can turn my ADD off. The way it manifests is that I just can't stop thinking, I can't shut my brain off or put it in low gear...like, ever. Unless I have certain external stimuli, or unless I exhaust myself physically, my brain just keeps going and going, a constant internal litany of stuff. And while I'm sure this is true of a lot of peoples' brains, it's matter of degree and, um...how loud a voice your brain has. And how much control you have over it; in my case, none.
But the right song can...it's hard to describe...it can fill the gap that the perpetual thought is trying to occupy. I mean, that really is why my brain never shuts up: it can't stand silence, a lack of stimulus, so it makes its own. But when that lack is filled from an external source, suddenly the brain's attention span is sated and I can concentrate on other things.
Not just any stimulus will do, tho; most are okay, but there are some which are just perfect, fitting into the attention span like a jigsaw.
One such stimulus is "Fading Like a Flower", by Roxette. This song is so perfect, it fits into my brain's attention gap like nothing else. And its a beautiful song, too; my favorite song of all time, in fact. Especially the guitar part starting at about 3:13 on the video linked above...there'z just something about it that makes my heart swell.
Now here's the ironic part: when something fits that well into my brain...I don't hear it. Not unless I concentrate deliberately. It fits so well, feels so natural, that if I'm doing something else--working on my comic, maybe--I completely miss the song because suddenly I can focus my attention as I couldn't without the song. I simply don't notice it until I hear the song ending, and I'm like, "Fuck! I missed it!"
Seriously; I just rewound "Fading Like a Flower" about four times before I finally felt like I'd really heard it.
Maybe this doesn't make sense to anyone who doesn't have ADD, I d'know. Maybe it doesn't even make sense to people who DO have it. But, well...welcome to my world. Y'ever wondered why I'm so weird or why I seem to have a ready pun all the time...it's cuz my brain is composing, free-associating, during every waking moment I've got, and only certain things can make my brain shut the fuck up and let me concentrate...