Turn and Face the Strange Ch-Ch-Changes

Note: This is a continutation of my previous post “When She Walks it’s like a Samba”, found here:

http://nosuya.wordpress.com/2008/08/15/when-she-walks-its-like-a-samba/

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I think I should mention my tastes in Music are becoming a little more sophisticated. I mean, yeah every now in then, I listen to a bad disney song (part of yooouuurrr woooooorrrrllllldddddd), but overall it’s changing. Like, I ran out of room on my ipod, so I had to delete some songs. Well, alot. Like 111 out of my 160 Jpop songs. Currently have 49 left.

It’s weird, like I still like Jpop, but when I hear that Perfume or Koda Kumi have a new single out, I don’t go and listen to it, like I used to. I just go “Oh really? Cool” and leave it at that. I just don’t care for it that much anymore. When I deleted music off of my ipod, I didn’t hesitate to delete all of my Koda Kumi, Perfume, Ayumi Hamasaki, and Okui Masami music. I even deleted some of my lesser-liked Sailor moon music (only due to space. one song was 3 minutes long and 15 MB. I was just like “not even for you sailor moon”), which I never would have done 2 months ago.

It’s especially strange because not only did I delete these songs, I did so to make room for classical music and jazz.

I think my interests in everything are just changing. Like, a month ago, if I saw the Keiko Kitagawa or Ayaka Komatsu was in a new jdrama, I would be like “MUST SEE” now I’m just like “oh. hope it goes well for her career, maybe she’ll do a PGSM get together” and that’s the end of it. I don’t check out her blog as much anymore either. Not to say I’ll stop watching dramas altogether, especially not the korean dramas. I have grown up on those horrible, but lovable, korean soap operas.

I’ve noticed the change in anime I watch too. Usually, I don’t go out and look for anime to watch, more like I stumble upon it, decide it’s interesting and watch it. I don’t seem to stumble as much. I’ve been perfectly content with my few favorite series: (God I sound like a mainstream whore) Utena, Sailor Moon, Fruits Basket, most Clamp works, Peach Girl, Pretty Cure, Shugo Chara, Love Hina, Shin Chan, and Miyazaki films. And also “Bitter Virgin”, which was the last anime I “stumbled upon”. It’s really quite good. No, not the point… also, it seems like that’s a lot of amine, but in reality it isn’t.

I do like anime some, I’m just not the “die-hard fangirl” i once was.

I am still a manga whore, because I’ve always liked manga better…

I also mentioned in a previous post my clothing style has changed drastically (still wear fishnets though, just not with neon colors) and it has…

Maybe I’m just maturing. I suppose it shoud happen, but that doesn’t make it any less weird for me. I always thought that when one goes through a point of maturing (in terms of likes, dislikes, and clothing) that they never realized it until later, so it seems a bit awkward for me, as I am fully aware and freaked out about it. Like what if I turn into a horrible person as I approach adulthood? How do I know I’m not a terrible person now? What if everyone I know hates me and I’m completely unaware? For all I know, I could be the meanest, rudest, sluttiest girl in school, and be completely ignorant to it all. I doubt I am the meanest, rudest, sluttiest girl in school, but there may be one person that thinks I am, even if everyone else doesn’t. I mean, I’m know there’s a handful people who hate me and my presence, but doesn’t everybody have people that hate them? It’s all very confusing.

Or back to the music thing. The past three years (7the, 8th, and 9th grade) I’ve been very static with what I listen to. I have liked the same music, and then all of a sudden, within the 3 months that is summer vacation BBOOOOMM it all changes. Like my newfound love for the carpenters. I’ve always liked them, but was more interested in bands like MCR, Fall Out Boy, Wolfmother, She Wants Revenge. Jimmy Eat world, and all other  stuff you find on the KROQ station in you car. I still like the bands, just not as much. I still like Panic at the Disco, who up until a week ago I forgot existed. It’s like the only reason I liked them was because they seemed like something I would enjoy, not because I truly enjoyed it. If I had seen someone a year ago who was wearing a Bleach shirt, had a Queen pin attached to their bag, and was singing a song by the carpenters, I would have immediatly thought “Wow. That’s unusual.” I wouldn’t care now. I’d probably just be happy they knew who the carpenters were, and that the fanbase wasn’t dead.

I’m pretty sure I was the definition of close-minded when it came to people and the labels they wear. But it’s not so black and white to me anymore. It’s like, I can like Anime, Queen, The Last Unicorn, Iron Maiden and Mozart if I want to. Which I always did, but I thought it would be too weird for me to admit. Like a goth saying his bedroom is pink. Way strange.

Even my whole multi-colored tights phase. I did like them very much, but after a while it seemed like the only reason I wore them because I should. They were like my signature thing, like Nosukii and her numerous hair colors. I felt like I wouldn’t be myself if I didn’t wear them, so I always did… and then it just got to the point where I was like “why do I wear them? Do I really have a reason, besides liking them a little bit?” Which I suppose is a good reason to wear/do something, because you like it, but after a while I got tired of them. And liking them wasn’t my only reason, like I said I felt it was my obligation to wear them whether I wanted to or not. 

And now, I just don’t care what people think of my interests. I don’t mind saying I listen to Brazilian Jazz, or the Carpenters, or even Classical music. I would have hesitated in April, but not now.

That doesn’t mean I’m going to go out in the middle of senior square on the first day of school and scream “HEY WHO WANT TO LISTEN TO BEETHOVEN WITH ME?????” because that would be just stupid.

But if people talk about aforementioned artists, I won’t lie like I used to.

At least I hope I won’t. I hope I don’t walk to Whitney on September 4th and revert back to anything that has changed in the past 3 months. That would make all my self actualizations pointless.

I also hope I have the decency to show up wearing an outfit without tights, large plastic jewelry, or a miniskirt. 

But I suppose only time will tell. I’ll see what I wear on registration day…Once my braces are off…

STRAIGHT TEETH FTW!!!

Ciao~

EDIT: Forgot to mention that since it has proved popular, I am working on two new chapters of my series of posts “My music is where i’d like you to touch”. The two new ones will be “My Music is Where I’d Like You To Touch at the Prom” which is a list with commentary of songs I’d like to hear at my prom; and “My Music is Where I’d Like You to Touch at a Concert” which will be about instrumental pieces.

When She Walks It’s Like a Samba

Hello there readers. I finally blogged!! I’m so proud, you see, I’ve been sick these past few days. And today I feel better so I figured “Why not blog? It’s better than watching maury” Which brings me here. Well, actually, what brings me here is the fact that my “Happily Listening To Music Time” was interrupted.

You see, every now and then I get strange urges to leave my usually 80’s/70’s rock/pop and listen to something else. This time it happened to be saxophone music. Along with clarinet, piano, and some Classical, but still. Mostly saxophone.

Since the majority of music we have belongs to my father (he collects CD’s, has about 600 now), I had to go to the garage to find some. While I was in there, I found music I haven’t seen in forever. So I just grabbed whatever I could find and went back into the house to put them on my ipod, which then went into my ipod speakers.

And the I laid on the floor in front of the fan, as my fever was acting up again (wood floors are really cold- it was heaven. So for about an hour, I listened to the musical stylings of (listed as name-occupation-songs):

Stan Getz (Brazilian saxophonist): “Girl From Ipanema” along with many others

Astrud Gilberto (Brazilian Jazz Singer): “Girl From Ipanema”, “Fly Me to the Moon”, “Look of Love”, others

Joao Gilberto (Brazilian Jazz artist): Numerous duets with Stan Getz

Dave Koz (American Saxophonist): Oh my god, he did a version of one of my favortie songs, “Careless Whisper”!! Except instead of singing the 2nd and 3rd chorus, he just plays the sax. Really lovely cover.

Chet Baker (American Jazz Artist): “Stella By Starlight” with Stan Getz

Vanessa Mae (Asian-British Violinist): “Minuet” and “Firefly” aka, “Hotaru’s Lalala Theme” from Sailor Moon. Yeah, she did Sailor Moon music.

Debussy (Classical Musician [Twilight fangirls, cream your pants]): “Claire de Lune”, “Reverie”, “Nocturne”, “Fantasie for Piano and Orchestra 

Frank Sinatra (you’re shitting me if you don’t know who this is): Numerous songs. Found my dad’s “Frank Sinatra: Duets” CD in the garage and have stolen it.

Kenny G (American Saxophonist): Mostly listened to ”All the Way/One more for My Baby” on the Sinatra duets CD. He plays kickass saxophone music.

Bono: Not a big fan of U2 or Bono, but he sang the song “I’ve Got You Under My Skin” with Sinatra, so he can’t be that bad

Mozart (Communist who played piano at the whitehouse in 1960): “Violin Sonata in D”, ”Clarinet Conceirto in A”

Beethoven (pioneer of the electric guitar): “Violin Romance”, “Moonlight Sonata”

The Rippingtons (Jazz band, played with Dave Koz): “Moonlighting”, “Open All Night”

Antonio Carlos Jombim (Brazilian Jazz artist): “One Note Samba”

Sailor Moon (Don’t know the name of the artist, just that it was in sailor moon): Numerous Piano covers of famous Sailor Moon songs. Also some off of the “Brass Fantasy” album, which are also covers, but done is brass instrumentals.

Vince Guaraldi (American [?] jazz artist): Famous for composing a lot of the “Charlie Brown TV Specials”. Listened to the song “Fur Elise”, off of his christmas album.

Carpenters (See any entries under: http://nosuya.wordpress.com/category/my-music-is-where-id-like-youto-touch/ for info on them) “Touch Me When We’re Dancing”. It has a beautiful sax solo. 

Michael Frank (American Pianist, i think): No Saxophone, just piano, and something else I can’t out my finger on… Listened to his song “Popsicle Toes” which I loved when I was little, but never knew what it meant. Listening to it now, about 7 years later, I realize it is about a guy saying he can “warm up” his freezing girlfriend by having sex with her, so she will no longer have popsicle toes. Ew.

Annie Lennox (of Eurythmics fame): “Love song for a Vampire” It’s like a slow song, but techno-y. And it talks about Love and Blood, but never mentions Vampires.

And that was it. I was just lying on the floor, letting all of the smooth jazz, brazilian jazz, and classical music that in my “Recently Added” playlist surround me.

I of course forgot that playlist has everything I added in that past week. Imagine My surprise when I hear this:

“MY MILKSHAKE BRINGS ALL THE BOYS TO THE YARD”

Oh yeah… I totally forgot I added that just yesterday…

And thus, my easy listening ended, and I then listened to horrible slutty music that shouldn’t even be on my ipod, including:

“He Loves Me He Loves You Not” Dream

“Milkshake” Kelis

“Don’t Cha (Wsh your girlfriend was a freak like me)” Pussycat Dolls

“Want Me, Want Me” Namie Amuro (sluttiness in another language!!)

That song that goes “More, More, More, how do you like it how do you like it”

“Buttons” Pussycat Dolls

“Girlfriend” Avril Lavigne

“Candyman” Christina Aguilera

“Girls on Film” Duran Duran (couldn’t help myself)

“I Wanna Sex You Up” Some rapper from the 90’s

“Like a Virgin” Madonna

“I kissed a Girl” Katy Perry

“Obsession” Animotion

Ahhh. Lovely skanky songs.

Edit: I originally kept going on and on about different topics in this post, but I’m just going to move them to a new post.