I've been a bathroom singer since I was about ten, you know the type, the kind of kid who gets transformed into this glamorous pop diva (it used to be pop, then metamorphosized into an RnB singer, a grunge goddess, a wannabe Sunidhi Chauhan...) once the bathroom door is shut safe behind her. So my parents have heard me wailing through the door all my growing up years, but I always refused to sing in public. My dad would call on me to sing in almost EVERY family function we've had (and there have been many), and I would refuse every time, which would lead to this little staring contest between us till he gave up. But anyway, I digress.
I finally screwed up my courage and decided to go on-stage in a little intra-school competition last year, and then one thing led to another and then I was part of a BAND! This was amazingly exciting to me because it felt like all my bathroom-pop-diva dreams had come true and I might actually get to do a stage dive sometime in my life.
Well, we're really not good enough for me to do a stage dive yet (or ever), but as soon as I joined, the role of lyricist was thrust upon me.
Now we're a rock band, right, and upon research of rock bands I realized that the ingredients of a good rock song more often than not fell into the categories of:
- Heartbreak (E.g. - Broken - Seether, Right Here Waiting - Staind)
- Unresolved father-daughter issues (Hurt - Christina Aguilera)
- Sex, drugs, booze. (Under the Bridge - RHCP, Animals - Nickelback)
- Unintelligible, yet genius (Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana, Toxicity - SOAD)
- Really deep emotional things (Lithium - Evanescence, Epiphany - Staind)
Here's the thing - I'm 17. I haven't done drugs, booze or had sex. My father and I have a completely unremarkable boring relationship - nothing song-worthy. And okay, I'll just say this out loud. I'm NOT deep. I do not really spend nights looking at the stars wondering how insignificant our tiny planet is in comparison to the vast vast galaxy. Or about world peace. Or anything beyond my life and my friends actually. I'm quite self-absorbed you might say.
And heartbreaks? Sure I've had them, which girl hasn't? But I'm not about to write a song showing the entire world (or okay, my band and the ten or so people who've actually heard us) how I felt about him, or him, or him either! I like my privacy, thanks.
So as I chew my pencil for inspiration for the next legendary rock song, ladies and gentlemen, I present to you my first blogpost in over a year.
Love :)
Oh and Bassist wanted me to mention that he was cool.
ReplyDeleteSo you get a comment mention Ashwin :P
I didn't ask you to, you did it yourself!
ReplyDeleteStop thinking about it as a song instead just write what you feel exactly the way you feel it let every tear,every heartbreak,every sad thought become words and eventually with a little correction here and there you will end up with a song which will show the world who you are and also you will feel better...happiness is the not the only thing people should share...
ReplyDeleteYou should just sing out your blogs dude! :P
ReplyDeleteThey're really entertaining. :D
and so true right , all these generic topics people sing about , how do they find so much drama/misery to suit them :O
nice loooooooooooong blog/story i guess its sorta interestin if ppl took time to read it :)
ReplyDeleteAshwin - sure you didn't ;)
ReplyDeleteAnonymous - yeah I know, but it scares me a little to bare my soul for everyone to see/hear. also I want to try writing happy songs :)
Trisha - haha thank youuu for the comments :D <3
And yeah, but like Spad said, sadness is generally easier to write about than happiness somehow.
Sid (this is our awesome drummer peepz) - thanks, I guess?? :D
UPdate woman, tell people about all the awesome songs you've managed to write now!
ReplyDeleteI like the colours :)
Atuu, you actually still check this space? Haha, well I haven't written too many still - just the same ol' two. Desperately need to come up with a couple more, and SOON, though.
ReplyDeleteAnd thanks, spent like an hour on the layout :)