Tuesday, July 27, 2010

A Song's Story

This piece of music reminds me of a gangster story like Reservoir Dogs or something like that. There is a peaceful conversation at first, but there is something underlying that you can't put your finger on. The conversation would be between leaders of rival gangs or mobs who are in some type of negotiations. As the song picks up, I feel like that is the point where negotiations go south and a fight or shoot out occurs. When I hear a piece of music like this my mind automatically jumps to juxtapositions between tone of music and tone of story, so whereas the song is upbeat and uptempo, I feel like it is hiding something dark and scary like a gang-related fight or massacre. At the end when the song becomes slow and peaceful again, the battle is over and the prevailing gang is picking up the pieces and walking slowly out of the place, which is probably an Italian restaurant or something like that. I feel that a song like this is so upbeat and optimistic that it just HAS to be hiding some sort of dark, scary secret. There is something sinister sounding about the lower portion of the melody that seems to be lying dormant behind the pretty, beautiful of the higher melody.

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