Me and Musics

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim

This entry will be in English insyaAllah. About ummi and musics.

Growing up normally as any other teenagers, me too are fond of music.

The different is, either fanatic or not. And I’m obviously not. It’s just I have to listen to something during study and do stuff like washing a full sink of dishes. And one more different is, I did not memorized details of the singer. For example, I know that Backstreets Boys have five members, but I did not remember the name. Same goes for N’Sync, although most of their song that time I memorized (hihi).

My favorite’s song/band? Quite a lot but I can name some that I still remembered. My genres of interest are on love song and nasyeed. Previously, I like BSB, N'Sync, Richard marx, Scorpions, Bryan Adam, Raihan, Hijjaz, Linkin Park, and quite a lot more. Before I like a song, I’ll go through the lyrics first.

And yes, it is quite weird why linkin’ park is listed. Truthfully, I don’t know. Maybe because of the lyrics. They have message, and the music is not so bad (I can’t listen to Limpbizkit for example). The second latest album of linkin park is the best for me, because it is a bit slow (other fan said it is the worst hihi).

It is quite weird people knowing me, people say I’m a bit religious, during high school my favourite class is Pendidikan Islam, wearing big hijab during my matriculation till now, but listen to linkin park? I have no firm answer. As long as it didn’t apart me from what I believe, didn’t change my attitude, I think it is fine. Because I just like to hear the song and study the lyrics, I don’t go and buy all LP’s stuff, going concert, yelling to parents, or become fanatic of them. In fact I could guarantee, if any of their members happen to pass me by, I Won’t go and ask for autograph because I know it won’t bring me any good, here or at the hereafter.

Love song. I love love song. I like Richard Marx, Bryan Adam, Mariah carey and a lot of old school songs. But Alhamdulillah, my high school’s record is clean without any monkey-love stories.

What I like to do is analyze the lyrics. Believe it or not, during my secondary school, matriculation and USM studies, I was often being a free-translator for song’s lyrics. I explained what exactly the lyrics mean, line by line, or the whole story of a song (according to my thought). Come to think of it, it is quite meaningless act, but it somehow improves my English. Alhamdulillah.

Phenomenon nowadays in liking music, is somehow scary.

First of all, along with the Only-God-knows-what-you-cannot-find-on the Internet, gadget technologies everything, teenagers, or even kids can obsessed to things in the way that we couldn’t understand. If let say they like Justin Bieber, then all of their stuff must be related to it. In short, it will be a financial burden to the parent.

There’s one precious thing that I’d learned from one of my friend, she said (me rephrase), “Muhammad Al-Fatih is the great conqueror of Constantinople. We all know that. One thing we should know more is, during his childhood, his parent decorate his room with the map of Constantinople!”

His parent clearly knows the direction of life of their son. What about us?

Trend that I see is a room full of Ben10, Princess and what not. I’m not up to that yet, so I’m quite afraid to say more. But InsyaAllah will do the best to counter the influences. This saying is a reminder to me too.

Am I out of topic now, hehe?

The reason I write about music basically is because I am cleaning off my music folder. And I intend to delete all the songs that are not beneficial to my soul. Leaving only Quran folder, love song (since now I have my lovely husband beside), nasyeed and my LP(huh?).

In this holy ramadhan, I hope this small act will lead to something.

Ameenn…