Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Songs are Skyscrapers

Think of how it feels when you try to look at the Empire State Building from the windshield of your car as you cross 34th Street.  You need to squeeze over the wheel, and peer up. . narrowly avoiding the taxi that just cut you off while you were staring google eyed at only 2/3 of the building because it's so tall.  If you have a sun roof you can look through that and you'll be able to catch almost 100% of it.

But you need to stay with the flow of traffic, so you keep going before you actually get an opportunity to view the whole thing.  Next time you drive by, you'll have to look again.  And again.

That's what a great song can do to you.  You listen all the way through, and you know you love it before it's even over.  But by the time it's over you can't figure out just why you loved it, so you have to listen again.  Even the second listen won't do it justice.  So you listen to Use Somebody repeatedly.  You turn it up every time you catch it on the radio.  You stay a minute longer wherever you are to hear it.

Songs are Skyscrapers.  Just keep looking.

Peace Love and Vocal Harmonies

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