Journey of a Song

It's about a song. Many songs. 

Listen to it just for the sake of listening,

or understand the song. See the bigger picture. 

If you're into Bollywood music you'll understand this even better because in these movies the songs find their context, fit perfectly into the story. And that's quite exactly what a song does to our lives as well.

I mean who doesn't want to believe that their life is a movie?

But coming back to the original idea of the journey of a song...

Phase 1-Love at first hearing:

So this amazing journey begins right from the time you hear for the song for the first time when it strikes the right chords of your heart. You might hear it on the radio or YouTube. And then? Magic it is. Like almost suddenly you fall for that song. But obviously there are reasons behind this. We fall for these songs because they quite simply express our hearts' unexplained emotions.

The entire music industry works on the fact that we are more lovesick  than we believe ourselves to be.

"Subhanallah...Jo ho raha hai pehli dafah hai woh love, aisa hua..." Oh hell yeah.

 Even they help us to deal with the heart breaks pretty well. Kabira and Channa Mereya are the biggest examples. I think one of the main reason that Channa Mereya became such a hit was that at some point in our life, we all have faced this one sided love and we want to believe that we are dealing with it gracefully like the singer says...and that song feeds on the emotions of heart break just Like Ayan did in Ae Dil Hai Mushkil. And of course Kabira rocks because it gives us the hope that in spite of all our dissimilarities and commitments in life, we can always have a not-so-tragic ending.

And who doesn't wanna believe that they are some freaking Ranbir Kapoor in this filmy life?

The entire human civilization stands sane and progressive just because of our irrational fantasies.

We would end up living really depressed lives, let alone boring if we would stop believing that we could have a happy ending. And like I said earlier, we look upto these songs to make us feel like we're living a movie. 

Each song is like our right brain speaking to us.
"Ae dil hai mushkil" 
"Yeah, buddy I know."
 And may be that's the main reason we reach the next part.

Phase 2-Memories Suck:

Okay so quite frequently there are heartbreaks. The person we love doesn't love us back or they don't like us as we do. Or we have a break up or maybe that person just goes away from us. And from that moment, this song, that had been on the repeat for a million times, ends up in the 'skip' list. Because it was that song that reminds you of that person. That song brings back the memories of that person...you bet it does. So you don't wanna listen to it. You pretty much hate it now. 

Some of us delete it like we end up deleting that person from our life, while some of these songs are just kicked out of your playlist. They end up in some corner of your phone. They're there but you wanna ignore them. Maybe it relates to our feelings about that person. Deep down we still know they're right there but we try as hell to avoid them. " Don't screw me up more"

And then time brings us to last stage:

Phase 3-Song Reunion:

After the song has gone out of your mind and you have practically 'moved on', out of nowhere silently, this phase kicks in. You're listening to the songs on shuffle or over the radio and suddenly you hear a familiar tune. That forgotten song...

Of course it might bring some memories back but this time there's this slight smile on your face. Maybe a reminder that time passes anyway, or maybe how things change without us realizing or you forget everything about everything else in your life and experience the beauty of that song...

The lyrics, the music, the instruments played in the background and you fall in love with that song all over again. Not because it relates to someone but genuinely you enjoy it like a child.

And of course same happens with that person...you meet him or her suddenly and you get the same realizations. You both realize how the situation has changed. And at the end only one thing remains constant...

That lovesick forgotten song...