Music Mondays: Cry (Kelly Clarkson)

If you knew love at all, then you’ve probably had a fair share of the pain that accompanies a love that ended because it had failed to grow one way or another.

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Last week, I featured a song that described the beauty of at least having experienced love in the first place rather than not having known it at all. This week, let’s tackle the dark side of it, the side where you just want to curl into yourself and close yourself against the world. Because if you knew love at all, you know how a heartbreak can be literally, as much as figuratively, felt to the point of want to strike at your heart just to numb the pain away.

This week’s song would be about that. Of trying to cope with a heartbreak and Kelly Clarkson couldn’t have sung a more fitting song than this.

If you want a video of Kelly Clarkson singing it live, you can click here.

Music Mondays: If I Die Young (The Band Perry)

No one is an expert in death. Whatever the manner or the circumstances, it always comes as a shock. Reality becomes a bad dream that everyone wishes to wake up from. It’s just a matter of living the nightmare or accepting it for what it is.

It’s hardest to those closest to the person who passed. It’s similarly hard to the people who care about those who experienced the lost a loved one. We can only hope to get through it safe, sane, and sound, even though the scars of loss remain.

A single life snuffed out of existence is like a single drop of water in a calm lake. It creates ripples affecting everyone’s lives. It distorts and shakes what we have become accustomed to. And the effect it has on our being is small at first, but gradually growing, and there is a struggle to keep afloat against the waves of emotion each time reality hits.

Today’s Music Monday is dedicated to everyone who’s lost a loved one and to those who’ve witnessed what this loss does to their own loved ones. It’s never easy, no matter which perspective. One thing I know for sure, we should never shut down or close everyone else off. It’s their struggle as much as our struggle to continue, but we all continue together.

The experience changes us. Be it for better or worse, it changes us for good.

If I Die Young by The Band Perry

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Have you suffered or know someone who’ve suffered a loss? What advice would you give in such situations?

Music Mondays: Say Something I’m Giving Up on You (A Great Big World & Christina Aguilera)

So I watched The Amazing Spiderman 2. Oddly enough, the first thing I did after seeing the movie was to open my computer and search the song captioned above. It was the first song in my head. Although I’ve known and liked the song since I first heard it on the radio months ago, it was only until after I’ve seen the movie that I watched the music video.

You see, I’m the type of person who likes listening to music. I especially like listening to the lyrics. Once a melody catches my attention, I go to the lyrics. It’s the same with this song. Why not? The first verse in the song was already the song title: “Say something I’m giving up on you”. Who wouldn’t want to listen to the rest of the song and know why?

To Gwen Stacy dying, I say it had to happen. Maybe so that Peter Parker would meet Mary Jane Watson and for as long as Gwen lives, there wouldn’t be a chance for Peter Parker and Mary Jane. Maybe it’s to teach Peter Parker a lesson. (Maybe it’s what the creator wanted). But for whatever it is, real life or not, be it fate or destiny, it had to happen.

But enough about The Amazing Spiderman 2. This is Music Mondays, not Movie Mondays. But kudos to the movie for triggering this Monday’s selection: Say Something I’m Giving Up on You by A Great Big World and Christina Aguilera.

Don’t you find Christina Aguilera’s poses and movements in this music video a bit off considering the atmosphere of the song? Anyway, what’s your Monday Music?