Today I woke up with Love Story by Taylor Swift on the speakers of our neighbor’s radio.
I turned on the TV and spotted Love Story by Taylor Swift on the boob tube.
I took the bus and heard Fall For You by Secondhand Serenade reverberating over and over the commute.
I took the Jeep and heard Thinking of You by Katy Perry.
I stood beside a building with Moment of Truth rumbling.
I was in line at Mang Inasal about to say my order when Love Story by Taylor Swift played. AGAIN!
Grrrr! I hate mainstream songs.
I don’t mean to say that Taylor Swift, Secondhand Serenade and Katy Perry are downright crap artists. I love them.
But it's like, when Love Story was first released last year December, I fell in love with it. I remember so plagued by it. And it seemed so magical to me. It felt like it was MY song, you know? Like mine and nobody else's.
Then it got really whopping, and everyone started listening to it. And now when I listen to Love Story, I just can't love it anymore because it seems so cold and impersonal Overused.
Am I the only one that feels this way?
It doesn’t just apply to Love Story but all the other unheard turned mainstream songs.
Like Paramore. They used to be among the supreme in modern punk rock music scene. They were looked up, praised for making amazing melodies and wicked tunes along the great the vocals of Hayley.They became famous, wanted to attract more people. Now, they're terrible. Especially, now that all their videos are Twilight-ish. Their last songs are boring and they lost their magical touch. I don't hate them because more people like them, I hate them 'cause their music became generic. Mainstream. It is the same thing, over, over and over. You hear the freaking song about 30 times a day on the radio, about the same amount on TV. You get sick of it.
Sometimes I love a song, but then EVERYBODY starts listening to it, or starts singing it, and it just becomes annoying. Jaded.
Am I selfish?
It’s just that when less people know the song and you listen to it, it feels so much more intimate and magical and personal. When only a little people listen to the song, the song becomes more tasteful, more impervious, more magnetic, and more lustrous.
I still like the songs when they become really popular. I still listen to them. They're still good songs, but they just don't feel as special and warm anymore.
That’s why I do ‘underground’ songs.
Because when you came across them - it becomes sensational. It's like unearthing a treasure chest beneath the layers of the ground. There still a lot of underrated bands out there. Not commercial, just quintessential.
