Jason Castro - Let's Just Fall in Love Again
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzoiTk6oSKw
Okay, now, before your roll your eyes, just relax. I agree that almost any music produced by former American Idol contestants is pretty much guaranteed to suck. Their music often comes across as a hurried, half-baked attempt to profit from their already fleeting fame set to an unbearably generic beat. However, sometimes a simply crafted, romantic pop song can slip thru the cracks and make you forget that it came from the terrible AI machine.
These lyrics are about as romantic as Wordsworth and hit on almost every principle that constructs ‘the Romantic.’ It’s a sweet and childlike song to his long-term love, telling her that even after all this time he wants to re-create every moment of the honeymoon period he still so deeply feels. It’s an innocent proposal to suspend reality for a moment and pretend to start the process of falling in love all over again. To ignore the fact that this could never happen and trick their bodies into reverting back to the nervousness and excitement of new love. While this is just another pop song, I think that the sentiment this song offers is surprisingly absent from music. We’re all about the delightful blush of first love, but not so much about keeping that spark alive. This song offers a way to do that, albeit impractical, but if the song works on you, by the end you could care less. If given the chance, I suspect that nobody would turn down the opportunity to fall in love with their significant other again.
Williams suggest that each generation lives and produces its own structure of feeling; that we have a set of common perceptions and shared values that construct the way we react to something. While I’m not sure if that is true, if this song is working on our generation, than I would conclude that we all have a common desire to break away from our often un-sentimental world and fall into an imaginary romantic one, if only for a few moments. This song pushes the position that the idealist notion of romantic love is still alive and well, and given that he’s proclaiming that he would happily repeat the process, it seems like it isn’t going away anytime soon.
I agree with you that the song is sweet and childlike. Also, I do like your idea that the song is an innocent proposal to suspend reality for a moment and start the process of falling in love all over again. The song, seemingly, offers hope for those who are searching to find love for the first time or find it in the first place. It is just another pop song, but it does get the point across. Watching the video also helps to convey the feelings. One can almost get lost in the idea of happiness because the video does such a great job or portraying it. Although a structure of feeling is not universal, those who do watch this are likely to feel the same thing, happiness and hope.
ReplyDeleteI truly believe the fact that music can change us by moving in a way that nothing else can do. I do agree that sometime actually often times, I get very nostalgic when I hear certain songs from the radio that I used to listen when I was young or when I was in trip somewhere else. It has happiness as well as hopes and fears.
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