Music Motive

I'm gonna try something new here. Well, new to me anyhow. I know others have been doing this for a long time, but I always have a hard time with the coding format of this blog. Getting things to appear in the post box is a tough job for me.

This one is about a music video I watched online. It is a song I like by an artist I think is interesting. The name is Sigur Ros for those that might recognize it. The song is called Hoppipola which I honestly don't understand, but then I really don't think that the song is in English so the title most likely isn't either. Songs like this reach down into a person and (if you can connect with the music style) find a specific emotion to grab. I have a hard time figuring out what emotion this one grabs. Maybe it is a form of nostalgia, it kind of feels that way. Maybe it brings a childlike wonder as I watch the contents of the video. Maybe it's just creativity in what it shows. A reversal of the norm, a peak into something unexpected and (most importantly) very believable.

We, or I, often naturally look at age in a basic way unless something forces us to break the mold. I see birth followed by a middle and then it's all downhill so to speak. (I mean this in a general way and not a guarantee of course of how a life is lived.) Let's be honest I don't see many people acting as these do in the video, but that is why it is so striking to me. This video (and the song that drives it) break that mold and reveal a new world that was hiding inside of it. A place where the elderly act like children, valuing and enacting the times once forgotten to them. Battles over "turf", which I remember having. Creating makeshift weapons and armor, which I also did. Knocking on a door and running, which everyone has done before. Even jumping in puddles and flirting openly within their groups. These are not the things I think of when I think elderly, but the song does an amazing job of reaching in and searching for that spot where the inner child lives. Once poked and awakened (and in combination with the video) it is hard not to smile and giggle with appreciation of the events unfolding. Or at least it was for me...