Behind every favourite song, there is an untold story.
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Hey guys,
Today’s post is kinda different. It’s not quite a quote, but more of food for thought.
I don’t know about you guys, but I really enjoy music. It has pretty much accompanied me through practically every stage of my life, from studying to long bus rides, from times when I’m celebrating to late nights when I can’t sleep.
The thing is that I believe that music is pretty much a universal language, even if you don’t understand the lyrics, you can still enjoy the melody. And there are so many times when the music describes my feelings better than I ever can, and somehow, these songs sort of become the ‘theme song’ of that season of my life. To be very honest, my personal opinion is that Mandopop is the best at this, especially if you’re looking for sad love songs.
In fact, music is something that I don’t anyhow recommend to people. If you ever get a song recommendation from me, chances are that there will be some trace of something I want to tell you in there. The reason I don’t just tell you directly is simply because I haven’t mustered up the courage to. So yes, my music recommendation can be very very cryptic.
But today, I want to get to know you guys better. Comment one song that is on your favourites list (yes I agree that we can have more than one favourite song) and if you feel comfortable enough to share, tell me the story behind that song.
I’ll start:)
The song that comes to mind is Faith, by Mitchell Fu. It can’t be found on youtube I think, I know Apple Music has it but I’m not too sure about Spotify. I’ll try to find the link to it and make it accessible to you guys if I can.
This song was recommended to me by someone who at one point in time was very important to me. It honestly is a very encouraging song, and I totally recommend that you guys give it a listen. But things happened and I had some rather unpleasant memories associated with the person who recommended it to me and because the recommendation came at a time when things were still going well, everytime I heard it I just became very sad and hurt. For a good 3 to 4 years, I stayed away from it because I didn’t want to be reminded of everything that happened. So for a while, this was that song that just sat in your music library but everytime it came up I’d skip it.
It recently came on again, when I was listening to music on shuffle, and somehow, I didn’t feel the need to skip it anymore. I guess this song will always be associated with a bittersweet memory, but it feels so good to be able to say that I’m no longer so affected by it, and hence the entire episode.
So that’s my story! What’s yours? I’m excited to listen to your favourite songs!
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