Nik
May-12-2005, 11:44 GMT
IP:
Australia
 | this is such a fantastic topic for discussion. first of all, i´m 16, female, i guess i´ve had a good education, i Love literature (but poetry would actually perhaps be my least favourite), intelligence... well without meaning to sound arrogant yes i suppose in an academic way, especially with my humanities, rebellious? inwardly I suppose and to use Eileen?s words, ?in a very individual sense?. I disagree with a lot of things around me and I guess what I mean by rebellion is not to conform, to be who I am and so in that sense it?s a very individual rebellion. (no Eileen for me the music isn?t a way to calm myself from a need to rebel).
Going on, yes I am introverted... but i think the main thing is that i know my tastes are very different from those of other people my age. the ´yuppie´ image you guys brought up - well i guess it kind of defines what i would eventually hope to be. See the reason I found coming across this discussion so coincidental was because just today, I was making a second attempt on converting my friends into Paul Simon fans, and it didn?t work. One of them said, he sounds like Elvis. Then the others said he just sounds Old. And all of a sudden I realised that Paul?s music epitomises so intrinsically my tastes and just generally who I am. And I realised that for someone to understand me, I think one of the first criteria would be to share a love for this guy and his music. Do any of you feel that? That your interest in Paul?s music is a very defining factor of your personality?
Anyway, yes I agree with what the other younger people said in this discussion, the fact that so much of the pop music today is just crap ? it has no merit it has no meaning it?s just the lines I love you and I miss you over and over again. I can?t pinpoint exactly what I love about Paul?s music. Lyrics, sound, his voice everything, Paul himself, everything. There?s simply something very magical about it. In response of Eileen?s question about what you do when you listen to Paul?s music ? well, with some of the songs I sing along in my head ? because I want to sing along but don?t want my voice to drone out his. The other thing is I much prefer listening to his music with headphones, because somehow it?s a very exclusively private experience for me. I don?t like S&G though ? it?s too sweet for me ? but I don?t mind if Paul sings the S&G songs solo.
And I know I?m rambling here and this is getting way too long, but I thought it might be interesting to tell you guys about how I came across Paul?s music. Basically my science teacher (late fifties, male, physicist, a very mysterious interesting person, seems to care a lot about global issues) mentioned him one day. We were studying how fingerprints are all unique and stuff like that. My teacher then said ?but there?s this guy called paul simon. You probably haven?t heard of him but your grandparents might have. I quite like him. Anyway, he says in one of his songs ?Fingerprints I?ve seen them all and man they?re all the same? ? so I went home, looked up paul simon just to find out what kind of music this strange teacher would like, and got hooked myself. Strange story huh?
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Beth
May-12-2005, 21:36 GMT
IP:
USA - United Staates America
 | I have been fascinated with this thread since Eileen posed the questions a week ago.....Why I listen?...What I am like?...How I respond to his music?...Is there a prototype?.....and I have come to the conclusion that although we are different, we are pretty much the same...... |
