fads

[fpb]

For some reason, I've just developped a fad for George Harrison's I've got my mind set on you. Well, of course it's one heck of a good song. But does it happen to you too, to suddenly awaken to the beauty of this or that work of art and, for a week or two, to keep playing it/ reading it/ looking at it more often than anything else?

Comments

Darn...

[sevenorora.livejournal.com]

Now it is stuck in my head as well...

And yes, sometimes it happens to me as well. More with books than music.

Re: Darn...

[starshipcat.livejournal.com]

Except for me it's Weird Al Yankovik's "(This Song is Just) Six Words Long," the parody of the George Harrison song.

But then I've got a weird sense of humor. There are a number of songs for which I know the Weird Al parody better than the original.

Re: Darn...

[theswordmaiden.livejournal.com]

Exactly, same here. I think Weird Al often takes songs with good music and gives them better lyrics.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Yes, very much so.

[guarani]

Yes, especially with music. And it may last more than two weeks. The annoying side of this is when the alienating song is a piece of s**t (such as in an ad).

[bufo-viridis.livejournal.com]

Sure. A new good book I can read few times in a row and to an album which "has caught" me I can listen even for couple of weeks - maybe not all the time, but v. often :)

[privatemaladict.livejournal.com]

Yes, with music. It happens all the time. There's a real magic to music.

[camillofan.livejournal.com]

Hey, it happened to me with a movie (Roman Holiday, as you might remember) at the end of last year, and it lasted over two months!

And I get shorter-term things for songs and books, too. "The Windmills of Your Mind," for instance, grabbed me not too long ago.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

It did that to me, too. It is quite a grabby song - there is something about its circular yet passionate melody that really does catch the attention.

[camillofan.livejournal.com]

The repetitiveness is hypnotic-- it draws you in.

[super-pan.livejournal.com]

I love it when that happen! You have the pleasure of enjoying a familiar thing with the enthusiasm of experiencing something new. That happened with me with reading the Lord of the Rings.


And that's a catchy tune.