Every time I write something about songs, an IAS stops talking to me. Hope this time is different. Remember
that phase of your life when you actually like listening to those tacky, cheesy,
“Aashiqui 2” type senti songs? Then comes the R&B songs and if
no-one helps you out and you are in the final grips of depression, the heavy death
metal blasts (You agree PINTS?).
Though,
there are some songs that stay with you forever … The Classics !! The "Summers
of 69s" and the "We will Rock Yous".
Two such
songs that I’m writing about are:
-“You’re Beautiful” by James Blunt
and
-“So Beautiful” by Pete Murray
Before you make any pre-emptive
judgements, know, that except the names, none other aspect of these two songs are
similar, in any way.
You’re Beautiful, by our very own James
Blunt, is an old El Classico which I guess everyone must have listened to, in their
adolescent life.
You know she’s beautiful, she’s an angel
and your love for her is pure. (All that crap)
On the other hand, you have “So Beautiful”,
by Pete Murray.
This guy may be no legend, but this song sure would've earned him a rapport with his ex’s friends, the way he feels about her in
this song.
Everyone knows how Taylor Swift &
Adele rip off their ex after they’re dumped. They’ll actually seem like little
girls in middle school after you hear how this guy blasted her ex to pieces, in all its subtlety.
While James Blunt reminds you of that
first girlfriend you broke up with or that one girl that got away whom you definitely
know, IS THE ONE,
Pete Murray reminds you of that one
irritating ex-girlfriend whom you wish, had actually gotten away.
(Ironically, I might have both of those
girls in my life reading this blog post)
To write this post further, I am actually
listening to these songs and while James Blunt strikes a chord deep down,
waking up that long buried nostalgia, Pete Murray makes my fingers roll up into
fists thinking of those crazy anger and frustration filled days.
In both of the songs, the guy is thinking
about a girl but while one has his girl portrayed as an angel on a heavenly
pedestal, the other one ridicules her dressing sense, how that fool thinks
so high of herself, her hair color and how he wishes he could bring her down and
plant her feet back on the ground.
You do feel pity for both of the guys
though.
James Blunt loves his girl so very much
and wants nothing but to be at her side but can’t and Pete Murray spent those awful
moments with his Ex and how his fingers actually seem to burn when he even as
much as thinks of touching her hair.
Is it just me, the boring, all the time in
front of my laptop/book geek with a non-existent social life (You
termed that, BAGAI) or do you think this is normal and you actually like Murray’s version of Beautiful over Blunt’s?
