Reliving Moments
Edit: Too tired to post this last night.
It’s 1:14am and I have been trying to connect to the Internet for the last two hours or so. Dumb Streamyx.
Anyway, I actually had a topic that I wanted to talk about but I forgot it now. So goes my bad memory.
I decided to listen to some Mariah Carey songs while attempting to connect to the Internet and she still stuns me with her voice, she still wins me over and no doubt, her songs have been interlaced into my history, into my life. To untangle and unravel her music from my past would almost mean erasing my memories. I know I have talked about this before, how when I listen to certain Mariah songs I can chronicle my life and I can remember the feelings and the atmosphere I was in, almost like a quantam leap into the past. I can return to that time and relive the moment.
I am reminded of Debenhams Department Store and my relatively short stint there when I listen to “Don’t Forget About Us”… I remember my colleagues and their cheerfulness, their happy go lucky nature, their acceptance of this song… I will always treasure those moments… when I listen to “It’s Like That”, I am reminded of Astro, my journeys in the morning, bopping to that song, I can just smell the office… when I listen to “We Belong Together” I am always reminded that I had cried on my first listen of this track, it was right before cell and I had burst out crying because of the lyrics, the tone and the overall anticipation of listening to this new track.
Listening to Loverboy I am reminded of my time at Ridley College, my friends there… our idealistic look on life, our genuine excitement in starting something new… I remember my times sitting in the study rooms at Ridley College under the library where I would be studying with my friends and indeed, I feel like I am transported back in time…my memory is fading now, it is all a cloud… thank God for Glitter that it does bring back whiffs of a time and place that is lost forever…living only in our minds…
I think the Glitter album / OST is probably my favourite album from Mariah Carey even though I am not a particular fan of the electronic synthesizers of the 80s… It was at the height of change for me but aside from that, it does have good songs on it, catchy dance tracks that deserve more recognition. Its overall feel was way ahead of its time but that’s what I love about this album… it’s that, even now, 5 years later, it is still listenable, still current. Who can deny the absolute loveliness of Loverboy? It is fun, upbeat, easy to sing along and very addictive. If We with Ja Rule is definitely something that would sound good on the radio now… Reflections is such an introspective song of the character in Glitter, it is painful to listen, the emotions flowing so freely, the hurt so evident… Lead the Way with her extremely acrobatic note at 3minutes and 10seconds into the song, I have to say it was when her voice was at its best. I am astonished over her ability to run her voice so effortlessly over the valleys and mountains of the melody… indeed, it is an album to be cherished…
I listen to Music Box and All I Ever Wanted and I remember my puny B20 room at Ridley where I would sit in the dark, looking out my window to see the Ridley cafeteria and garden. I can almost imagine my neighbour in the room in front of me, doing her own things… I just remember putting these songs on repeat, revelling in her voice and melody… how interesting that my neighbour would seep into my memory when I listen to these songs… I guess she played an integral part of my first year, making an imprint that I am sure will last for some time.
Man… if I were to detach Mariah from my life, it would be robbing me of my experiences. Isn’t it amazing how music can inspire memories?
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My cousins from HK were over in our house today so we watched bits and pieces of High School Musical - such an awesome musical. The cheese tastes so good. I hope to talk more about it when I have time. There’s a sing-along session happening this weekend on Disney… please feel free to come over to my house to watch it with me…
I remember what I wanted to talk about now… one of the off-hand topics - THE HAZE - while watching High School Musical, the putrid air was just not good for breathing at all. It reeked of burnt wood and to be honest, it was just unhealthy. I wonder what our government is going to say. I wonder what the Indonesian government is going to say about this. The effects may not be evident now but 15 years down the line, you’ll hear of the Malaysian population having breathing problems or some awful health problem as a result of this haze… trust me… it sucks some times having to breathe in such healthy air and its worse when you have nowhere to run to and its an annual occurrence.
I am listening to “Can’t Take that Away” by Mariah Carey and I will always have awful memories of the time when I was co-erced into singing this in a talent show at Ridley…*buries face* I felt so ashamed because it wasn’t a particularly wonderful rendition… I kind of faltered in the middle … indeed, it was one of those, “I can’t sing onstage moments”… but this song also brought divine revelation in my first few weeks in Australia - “Certainly the Lord will guide me where I need to go”… I can remember when I first heard this song, it was on a real audio file and Mariah was premiering this song on a radio station even before her mom had listened to it and I have to say, it is one of my favourite tracks from Mariah… this was when I was still in the early stages of being woo-ed by Mariah… I broke down I am sure and fell in love with her even more… this could be one of the turning points, that made me go, “yes, she is the best.” This song ranks very high on my list… it is a very uplifting song… One of her better songs.
