Can't fight this feeling anymore
I don't have standard music tastes. I can't stand most popular music, even the classics. A lot of the "oldies" I hate because, like Christmas music, they've been played to - and beyond - death; played so many times I want to strangle people who play them. And a lot of classics are mediocre music anyway. And modern popular music is mostly crap, with a few exceptions (like Adele, who isn't even pop or rock or pop rock anyway).
But I'm here right now to talk about one song in particular, one that's tormenting me by going through my head ad nauseum: "I Can't Fight This Feeling Anymore." I have always detested this song, and I never understood why. It's so upbeat, and it's a love song! It made no sense why I hate it. Until today, when I finally figured out why: because the lyrics make it into a very vague song. The assumption is that it's a love song, right? Now, I don't have the whole lyrics laid out before me, as I'm writing this entry from home and I have no Internet there anymore, but the parts I remember are:
"I can't fight this feeling anymore... I've forgotten what I started fighting for... (blah blah) bring my ship into the shore, throw away the oar, forever."
So, with lyrics like that... take away the music, and is it still a love song? Or, as it seems to me, is it a song about a depressed man who has given up on life and is going to commit suicide now? That's the thing, it could go either way. And even the upbeat music doesn't decide it, not when there are traditions in some parts of the world (like a lot of Slavic regions) of putting extremely depressing lyrics to upbeat music. So yeah, I've pinned down why I hate that song.
This was cross-posted from http://fayanora.dreamwidth.org/1062265.html
You can comment either here or there.
But I'm here right now to talk about one song in particular, one that's tormenting me by going through my head ad nauseum: "I Can't Fight This Feeling Anymore." I have always detested this song, and I never understood why. It's so upbeat, and it's a love song! It made no sense why I hate it. Until today, when I finally figured out why: because the lyrics make it into a very vague song. The assumption is that it's a love song, right? Now, I don't have the whole lyrics laid out before me, as I'm writing this entry from home and I have no Internet there anymore, but the parts I remember are:
"I can't fight this feeling anymore... I've forgotten what I started fighting for... (blah blah) bring my ship into the shore, throw away the oar, forever."
So, with lyrics like that... take away the music, and is it still a love song? Or, as it seems to me, is it a song about a depressed man who has given up on life and is going to commit suicide now? That's the thing, it could go either way. And even the upbeat music doesn't decide it, not when there are traditions in some parts of the world (like a lot of Slavic regions) of putting extremely depressing lyrics to upbeat music. So yeah, I've pinned down why I hate that song.
This was cross-posted from http://fayanora.dreamwidth.org/1062265.html
You can comment either here or there.