Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts

Monday, February 20, 2012

love is (not) overrated

Valentine sudah lewat, tapi kata beberapa orang skeptis "tiap hari adalah hari kasih sayang, kenapa harus merayakan satu hari bernama valentine", walaupun realis akan menjawab "tiap hari sayang ibu, kenapa harus ada hari ibu?!" Yah.. apapun itu, tidak pernah ada kata terlambat untuk mengucapkan happy valentine!

Berkaitan dengan valentine, saya sedikit terganggu dengan jawaban-jawaban semacam "ga ngerayain valentine". that's a bit insulting. Valentine kan bukan kepercayaan, its just a moment to show more of love and care to others. Sama halnya seperti tanggal hari jadian, dimana pada hari itu kamu dan pasangan akan menunjukan hal-hal yang lebih romantis. Dan dengan merayakan hari jadi kalian bukan berarti di hari-hari lain kalian tidak menunjukan sayang satu sama lain kan?! So get over it people. valentine is only a date peoples pick to celebrate love, if you have love, you'll respect it. What's with love is getting thicker in the air for a day? Thats a really nice thing in this fucked up world.

Maaf ya saya sedikit terbawa emosi..

Yaa, emosi saya bisa dibilang cukup labil dalam beberapa hari terakhir.. kalau kata seseorang yang saya kenal, setelah putus saya jadi meledak-ledak. Am I? Maybe, idk. Menurut saya, satu minggu merupakan minggu yang sangat berbeda, kenapa?

1. Being Single
Mulai dari tanggal 12 februari, saya officially single. I dont know what to explain about this state of mine, yang jelas cepat atau lambat hal ini akan terjadi, i only need to push the button. So yeah, i'm single. For a week, i carry this new status of mine with a big grin and happy heart, but i dont know from now onward whats gonna happen, for a young woman who never singles for the past four years, am i gonna miss something?

2. Social life
If i am a sims, my social life bar would be a really buzzing with bright green now. Since i broke up, this week full of meet up with different peer of mine. From an accidental bumped with junior high school besties, to a well-planned college gathering, even i need to put some dates on hold. Also family is happen to be in town, so i actually never feel alone.

one of the picture


3. Feist
Yeah baby, Feist was not just happened to be in town. I bought the tickets month ago, planning to go with my boyfriend. But hence the break-up, all plan was ruin, including this. Kebetulan sekali salah satu sahabat saya pernah bilang "Nad, kalo lo tiba-tiba berantem ato putus sama ciko, puhlease tiketnya buat gue" So, lucky bitch was lucky, she tagged along, and I'm more than thankful having her beside me. Hmmm... what can i say about this gig, well, i was so awe by her performances. Leslie Feist is so pretty dengan vokal yang jernih dan tebal. she didnt put that much effort tapi berhasil menghipnotis penonton (oii penontonnn!!!). Yang saya tahu sebelumnya, tidak ada opening act malam itu, tetapi secara tiba-tiba, tepat pukul 8pm Erlend Oye from Kings of Convenience, naik ke panggung dan mulai memetik gitarnya. He sang some songs i dont even know (but i bet no one there knows ;)) up until he sang close to you from The Carpenter. it was hypnotic. And he closed his performance with the famous Cayman Island. Pretty Cool Erlend.
              Pada tepat pukul 9 malam, Leslie Feist muncul, dan dia menyanyikan beberapa lagu dari album terbarunya Metals. Saya yakin saya pernah dengar lagunya sebelumnya tetapi tidak begitu faham. Kecuali untuk beberapa lagu seperti the bad in each other, the circle married the line, graveyard, dan how come we never go there. Selebihnya saya mencoba menikmati.. Namun, Feist juga menyanyikan beberapa lagu dari album lamanya Let It Die, seperti Mushaboom, So Sorry, My Moon My Man, Sealion, Honey Honey, When I was a Young Girl, dan lain-lain. Tapi tapi tapi, bagi saya gong nya tetap ketika Feist masuk ke backstage dan keluar lagi bersama Erlend Oye, dan mereka menyanyikan lagu favorit saya: THE BUILD UP. and i was so happy i wanna cry. --> lame.

Feist with the Mountain Man



The Duet
I surely have more numbers to say about that previous week, but i kinda lost words here. and i need some beauty sleep. Jadi cukup sekian dan Terimakasih.

ps. Sorry for the mixed of using bahasa dan English. pfft.. Indonesian.

Thursday, February 9, 2012

#Lovegarage

Have I told you that i was attending an annual gig in my town? not that i annually come to this hype, but apparently i came to this one this year.  and It was quite a blast! Lovegarage was an event brought by Ismaya live and Dimension Events, and held on February 5th and 8th, a celebration of love, live and music. For someone who claimed herself as a beat-less girl -Yes, i thought i didn't have a beat in my blood- i can say i moved pretty good and i had a good time. HA!

Blame my stupidity for left my wallet and my tickets at home, so i was come a bit late, and missed several performance, but i just in time for Bag Raiders!! so that was still a yayyer. Initially I was only wait for a shooting star. But this two-headed succeed to pump the crowd with all their songs. including moi.

Bag Raiders, a duo from Sydney, NSW

After Bag Raiders, there was Rory Phillips on stage but I spent time during his performance to explore the venue, the night market, where you can find booths from local designer like a mini brightspot market.

When clock strike 10pm Royksopp ruled the stage, actually I'm not hipster enough to know all their singles, but since they were the main artist in this event, nothings wrong to catched up. They were playing remind me and several other songs until what else is there? the song i was rooting for but didn't expect to be played that night. The point is that song was a good closing for me. then i left. :) 

Royksopp, Norwegian electronic music duo.

I took some liberty to took pictures with my iphone, but not a show-off material. Unless it's okay with you.. here they are:






And on next wednesday: Feist!

Saturday, October 22, 2011

True Affection

Saya adalah orang yang selalu mencari lagu yang tepat untuk saat yang tepat. Saat saya sedang jatuh cinta, playlist saya yang berjudul "lovesick" tidak pernah berhenti berputar. Begitu pun saat saya sedang sangat bersemangat berapi-api, maka "dont stop me now" dari Queen pun membahana baik di rumah maupun sekedar menemani perjalanan saya di mobil. Itulah mengapa saat mendengarkan suatu lagu, saya selalu mencermati liriknya, mendengarkan dengan seksama, dan menganalisa makna di balik lagu tersebut, bukan hanya sekedar mendengarkan lagu tersebut untuk memperoleh moodnya apakah itu senang atau sedih. Saya akan mengkotak-kotak kan suatu lagu bukan berdasarkan genre-nya, tapi berdasarkan makna dan mood yang dapat saya peroleh dari lagu tersebut.

Namun ada saat dimana saya mendengarkan suatu lagu dan saya menganalisa lirik dan makna di balik lagu tersebut, namun saya tetap tidak memahami pesan apa yang tersirat dari lagu tersebut. Sampai saat dimana saya mengalami suatu masalah dan secara kebetulan lagu tersebut berputar dan Dang! dan saya pun mengerti maksudnya, like, man i really got it. Karena lagu tersebut berhasil menggambarkan secara sempurna situasi yang sedang saya alami, dan sebaliknya, situasi yang saya alami menjelaskan secara gamblang makna dari lagu tersebut. It happened to me before, and it hit me again now. 

Lagu pertama yang selalu membuat saya bertanya-tanya apa maksud dibaliknya adalah "Ordinary people" dari John Legend. Mungkin seluruh dunia tau pesan apa dibalik lagu ini, tapi tidak saya. Saya tidak pernah tau sebanyak apapun saya memutar lagu ini, sampai di saat saya sedang ada masalah dengan pacar saya pada saat itu. Dan ini dia lagu yang tepat. Well, kira-kira begini penggalan-penggalan liriknya:

Girl im in love with you
This ain't the honeymoon
Past the infatuation phase
Right in the thick of love
At times we get sick of love
It seems like we argue everyday
 ...
This ain't a movie no
No fairy tale conclusion ya'll
It gets more confusing everyday
Sometimes it's heaven sent
Then we head back to hel
l again
We kiss then we make up on the way
...
Maybe we'll live and learn
Maybe we'll crash and burn
Maybe you'll stay, maybe you'll leave,
maybe you'll return
Maybe another fight
Maybe we won't survive
But maybe we'll grow
We never know baby youuuu and I
Lagu ini jadi lagu yang begitu mudah dipahami. Bahwa betapa dua orang yang sedang jatuh cinta dan melewati fase honeymoon dan kemudian berada di ujung dari hubungan mereka. Bahwa bagaimana mereka harus menyikapi hubungan yang istilah kekiniannya adalah "udah mulai garing" and get too comfortable at each other so fighting and arguing at each other is inevitable.

But well, thats an old stuff. what I'm trying to say now is.. saya sedang mengalami memaknai lagu yang selama ini saya tidak memahami maksud dibalik lirik-liriknya, untuk yang kedua kalinya. Lagu berikutnya adalah "True Affection" by. The Blow. Ini merupakan lagu favorit saya yang selalu saya putar kapan pun di mana pun sampai saya bosan, tanpa saya bisa mengartikan maksud dari lagu ini. Beginilah lirik lagu oleh duo Khaela Maricich and Jona Bechtolt dari album Paper Television:

I was out of your league
And you were 20,000 underneath the sea
Waiving affections
You were out of my league
At a distance that I didn't wanna see
Down to the bottom 
I wanted a junction and often there was one
You'd surface face first and we'd share our thought bubbles
And I still believe in the phrases that we breathed
But I know the distance isn't fair to cross 
I was out of your league
And you were 20,000 underneath the sea
Waiving affections
You were out of my league
At a distance that I didn't wanna see
Wanted you nearer 
Your depths made a pressure that punctured my works 
and all your fluids couldn't tolerate the force of my thirst
I love the place where we shared our tiny grace
But just because it's real don't mean it's gonna work 
And true affection floats
True affections sinks like a stone
I never felt so close
I never felt so all alone

See, this song is not an easy one. Butuh waktu cukup lama bagi saya untuk akhirnya memahami lagu ini setidaknya dengan interpretasi saya sendiri. Salah satu hal yang sangat menarik dari musik adalah memberikan kesempatan kepada pendengarnya untuk menginterpretasikan secara bebas makna dari lagu tersebut. Dan bagi saya, makna dari lagu True Affection ini adalah mengenai laki-laki dan perempuan yang berasal dari dua dunia yang berbeda dan entah bagaimana cara nya, dengan mengesampingkan perbedaan mereka, mereka seolah made for each other. Mereka begitu cocok dan 'nyambung', namun disaat terdapat kemungkinan untuk bertemu dan menjalin suatu hal yang lebih serius, terdapat banyak hal yang menghalangi mereka selain dari 'perbedaan' yang mereka hadapi tersebut. Sehingga akhirnya salah satu pihak pun menyerah, mengalah, dan mengesampingkan perasaan cintanya dan meninggalkan suatu hubungan ini tanpa mengalami suatu klimaks. Finished just before it even start.

Sebenarnya post ini hanya untuk memfasilitasi curahan hati saya. Ya ya, saya tau saya harus sabar, saya tau saya harus mengalah, saya tau saya harus menyerah. Setidaknya, i can keep in mind that what we're having was real.

But then again, just because it's real don't mean it's gonna work
*mewek lagi*

Thursday, January 13, 2011

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