Sunday, December 13, 2009

Misheard lyrics

There are some very interesting things about misheard lyrics.First of all, you never know when you create a whole new song. Yes! the music does resemble that of the original one, but still sometimes the lyrics can totally change the mood associated with a song. For example, when I heard "Late goodbye" by Poets of The Fall for the first time [It was included in the game Max Payne, and after I finished the game, I somehow liked the song], now at that age, I was not aware of the fact that the lyrics of songs are available over the internet, and neither had I an access to the net. So, I had to guess the lyrics. Okay! It was full of minor and major grammatical mistakes, and after I became familiar with the original lyrics, I forgot the misheard one, but still I can remember that it completely changed the mood of the song, turning it from a gloomy song to a much jollier one. As far as I can remember that the misheard one started with a line something like " It's a sunny day" or something like that.

Another good thing is, if you are confused of your state of mind, I mean to say how actually are you feeling, then the misheard ones sometimes help you to know yourself.When I heard "Fade to Black" for the first time, I reckon I heard Jamie Hetfield saying, "You pissed me off, now I'll just say goodbye." I liked that attitude. Now when I think about the reason behind me hearing so, I reckon I was really in a rebel mood then. xD. A few days back, I saw a video of a misheard lyrics of "Immigrant song" by Led Zepp. It was saying "Fight the whore" instead of "Fight the horde." So, you decide how was the guy actually feeling while hearing the song. :P

This problem [??] doesn't arise when you are listening to a music instead of a song.But even there is an awkward problem. I dunno whether it occurs with everybody out there or its only me, but I tend to associate a particular mood with a particular music. "Comfortably numb pulse- guitar solo" has always been a pull up music for me. I remember, when I first suggested the music to one of my friends, he said, " Its good". I was so shocked by his expression that the following words came out of my mouth spontaneously, " What?? its heavenly.Are you deaf moron?". Now, I realise that, I was wrong, Because musics carry different meanings to different listeners. So what appeared to be a heavenly pull up music to me, may not appear to be the same to another one.

But, one positive point of associating different moods with different musics is that I can listen to that particular music which I need at a particular moment. For example, whenever I listen to "Nottingham Lace" by Buckethead, it tells me that sorrow is always followed by joy,whereas " Night of slunk" by the same, has always been a party music for me.xD

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