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sometimes, when i listen to a particular song, a certain feeling or memory would come back to me. just like how i used to listen to mizuki nana's heaven knows and crystal letter when i was playing the game perfect world. at that time, i only had that few nana-chan's songs, and that's why the music kept looping. the 2 songs were at the top of my playlist, among other japanese songs.
anyway, my point is, sometimes when we do the things we used to do in the past, it brings back memories.
my friends would probably know, i usually only listen to japanese songs. i don't listen to english or chinese. i used to, though, but nowadays the music evolved to a state that i no longer like it.
i scrolled back my ipod to the playlist where i have my westlife, backstreet boys songs. yar, you guessed it, they are old. it brought back memories to when i was a teenager. up until the early 2000s, perhaps 2002 or 2003, the boybands were quite famous. but it was around 2004 onwards that their decline was obvious and fast, and before long bands like greenday and busted, and some individuals like akon came out. at that point in time, the songs had already evolved to a new kind of music. i still listened to it though, but after a while, i switched to japanese, and listened up till today.
i remembered the first boyband i liked was westlife. in fact i still kind of like them now. the first song that attracted me to them was 'coast to coast', and 'if i let you go' became my favorite at that time. 'larger than life' made me realized the existence of backstreet boys, and among their songs i like 'shape of my heart' the most. m2m was also one of my favorite bands, above backstreet boys and below westlife. 'pretty boy' got me hooked for a long long time. michael learns to rock, blue, n'sync, plus one, a1 and bands/singers of that 'era', well i suppossed you know them, they were really quite famous. i loved their songs. not all, but they always had that trademark songs which defined their success. sleeping child, 25 minutes, it's gonna be me, best in me, last flight out, learn to fly, caught in the middle.... etc. i am sure, you know them too.
as i listened to each of these songs, it brought back memories to which i had usually forgotten unless something happened which reminded me of them. the time when i fell in love for the first time, the time when everybody in school were using those cool songs for our drama production, when we sang along and memorized the lyrics, when i would envy my friend because he got a poster signed by westlife. actually i still envy him now.
the songs, at that time, were awfully like chinese songs, which talked mostly about failed relationships, one-sided love, and everything except a happy romantic relationship. although it was more to the sad side, i still kind of like it. it was just too bad that the the boybands had to disband, m2m had to split up...etc. the current cool songs now, be it chinese or english, did not really attract me. i seriously do not like them that much.
it is the same for chinese songs. i would rather listen to songs in the 1990s and the early 2000s than songs now. songs of current era, give me the japanese. haax.
for now, i would probably start compiling a list of the old songs i used to have but for some reason lost it, be it chinese or english. and probably for a while, i will stop listening to japanese. i wonder, how the future will change the way music is produced, and what i will listen to in a few year's time.
listen to one old chinese song. it used to be my favorite when i was in primary school. the first song i really really got addicted to. i was 10 at that time. although the lyrics did not apply to me then. hahahaha.
