Always A Tape Girl

I am recently hooked on to Gotye’s music. Can’t stop listening to him since the weekend. It’s what has kept me going through the drilling week. The man is seriously talented. He’s different, which makes his music so very interesting. And he’s a great musician, a great songwriter, and an average singer all at once. I have also seen some of his interviews and he comes across as a very intelligent person, who really understands music and is genuinely passionate about it. And…ahem…not too bad looking either ;)

I sound like I have a mini-crush on this guy but I swear that’s not true…I do confess though that I have a crush on his music. People may be faking their image but music is real, and it’s out there for you to interpret it your own way. I do admire his talent. Only a thinking musician can come up with stuff like this.  

Which takes me to what I came here to write about. I knew the ‘Somebody’ song since it’s been such a big hit. But the rest of his music I discovered on Youtube. And it occurred to me how the music was worth buying the album for. You know, I don’t have any albums now. Whenever I need to listen to some music, I just go to the internet. Youtube has all you need. But good music deserves a better way to be heard. Or atleast that’s the way I felt after listening to this music.

I remember my teen years …those were the days of the tape or ‘cassette’ players. The CD was in its infancy in India. I had a huge tape collection back then. Even though the tapes were so inconvenient (can’t believe we had the time back then to actually rewind/forward the tape till we got to the actual song we needed to listen to), we still used them and were quite content with them. My parents had a huge collection too. We always had music playing in our house on the weekends during the day.

Back then, if a guy had a crush on you, he would give you a tape-mix…it usually had the aerosmiths and the bon jovis on it. He would put in all this effort to record each song meticulously on the tape. Yeah, I had added a few mix-tapes to my collection too.

This one time in the very early days of the start of my engineering course…there was this guy who was carrying a portable cd player with him, and was showing it off to all the girls (including me). I had hated how he was so proud of it, and I remember thinking to myself, how I would always remain a tape-girl. J