The name of a song, before it starts, invokes a reaction in us. We instantly decide whether or not to listen to it. We think we already know the song, as we have listened to it a few times before. We know the kind of feeling it invokes inside us. So if that feeling is good, we continue to listen, if the feeling is sour, we skip the song, we think we don’t really like the start of that song, “maybe the next one will start better”.
I’m of course assuming we are listening to music like we listen to nowadays. From our iPod nano/classic/Touch or from our computers (iTunes/wmp/xyz) or even from our home theater system when we insert our old favourite cd (we rarely buy the new ones, do we?!) I still like my Nirvana Nevermind CD or my Best of Bon Jovi CD.
But I noticed when I listen to music from an iPod nano, i tend to see the music that is about to be played, the band, the song name, everything is visible so i skip music more, a lot more.
But if I’m listening from an iPod shuffle, i tend to not notice sometimes that the song is over and another song has started and I’ve accidently listened to a 2 minutes of that song already, and if I’d known that song was gonna play, I would’ve skipped it, for sure. But now I’m inside that song, there is space in it, maybe a brief time-space wrap, where the song shows it’s true potential, which you hardly guess from the name. But once you are inside the guitar vocal strings, and have gotten the beat, the atmosphere, and the feel, the song shows it’s colors.
Maybe that is why music sounds better on radio (not clear channel), where you really don’t know what will turn up next, it’s a surprise….this song was so damn good, you’ll feel why didn’t you have it in your iPod, why?? but once you go to download or buy it, it was not so good that you wanna really do that…. If Madonna’s “Rain” sounded good suddenly, on the radio, it might not later, when you actually get it from a ‘discography’ torrent of hers. Or even a song like Haddaways “what is love?” will really sound cool on the car radio…..but do you have it in your iPod? Do you plan to?? never.
I guess it is the same with relationships. In a speed date/blind date/online date, you cannot really fall in love, but in an office, or college, when after a few months/years of being in close proximity together, you get to go in the inside of the person, the time-space of his/her being. Then love can happen, you know that person. You didn’t just read the name tag and liked/disliked that person, you went in, and saw it for yourself.
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