Saturday, July 09, 2005

Karaoke 2: Pain

Follow this little line of reasoning.

Songwriters don't just sit down and pen lyrics. Often, they write the very best songs when they are in the midst of an emotional maelstrom - the sorrow, the joy, the anger, the frustration, the elation in them seethes and bubbles over, finding eventual release in the birth of a song.

Now, if you sat in a KBox suite and bombarded yourself with the most stirring songs for hours on end, can you imagine just how intense an experience it can be? To be subject to all the raw emotions embedded in every song, feeling almost as if the stories and memories in the songs weren't second-hand, but your own?

The worst part? Feeling your own memories stir up from forgotten depths, resonating to some unstoppable Siren's Call. For when we encounter the woes of others, we cannot help but identify, and think of our own similar problems.

Yes, ironic as it may sound, every karaoke sessions hurts.

How can they possibly not?

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