When you finally listen to THAT song
Now it’s stuck in your heaaad, in your heaaad.
Everyone who enjoys music can relate to the situation where you heard a song somewhere — perhaps in a movie or TV series — and it captured your attention. But for one reason or another, you never went out of your way to find it and listen to it properly.
Months, perhaps years pass by and that memory is lost to the subconscious. However, fate had other plans and one day you stumble upon it while perusing Spotify or YouTube.
In an instant, your neurons rack up a lightning storm casting a light on that moment forgotten in time and bringing it back to the present. Joy becomes overwhelming as you simply listen to it, forgetting everything else.
You don’t know why you never tried to find it. Regret rears its ugly head, diminutive as it may be, and as quickly, it vanishes because happiness still reverberates throughout your being.
Such a small thing yet packing so much energy.
You listen to it a few more times, maybe bringing up the lyrics, and then put this piece of bliss behind you in an endless ocean of moments.
However, the song is not done with you. Not yet! You wake up the next day humming it. You go about your day and the song is still playing in your head.
It’s an awesome song so you accept it. You put it on some more. The cycle repeats until you’re mind is finally tired of it.
Zombie by The Cranberries did just that to me. I first heard it in Army of the Dead (2021). The movie was shit but the scene towards the end where the song played stayed with me for a while. That was 3 years ago.
It has been a week since the YouTube algorithm gods blessed me with the recommendation and the song is stuck in my head still. It’s also so fucking amazing that I keep listening to it daily.
The timeless message of the collateral damage of political unrest and war, the same old theme we are currently witnessing, alongside the phenomenal vocals of Dolores O’Riordan (Rest in Peace) moves me to tears.
To top it off, the comment section pointed me towards the famous cover by Bad Wolves and it’s also tagging along because it’s also so fucking amazing. A beautiful tribute from one amazing artist to another.
How curious and amazing it is that mere sound vibration arranged in a pattern and delivered by people can elicit such a strong emotional response.
Which Song did that to you most recently?
