Music; It is A Destiny

Susan Boyle, Paul Potts …. What images occur from these names? There are many figures that could be attached to those people such as overcoming hardships and prejudice, achieving own dream. In addition to this, they have a feature that both of them are inspired by music in common. In other words, they defeat their own adversities by music. Today, I want to cover about a poor boy who was hopeless and would not accomplish a great achievement during his life if he did not run in to music.

Back to last summer, there was an audition show which benchmarked one of the successful audition programs: Britain’s Got Talent in South Korea (It is called Korean’s Got Talent). There were lots of outstanding participants in the audition but there was a boy who attracted attention at once not by his talent but for his a growth process. As an orphan, he had harsh childhood without necessary support from family. It is hard to imagine that a young little boy went through such a rough life so the audiences fully attracted to him just listening his life story. In addition to his dramatic story, he brought impressive performance like the ones of Paul Potts or Susan Boyle. Combined with his story, the song did things to the audience. I do not know the final results of the audition but I heard that he ranked in the top 10. A piece of music that he heard at the club changed his life for whole.

Like his example, sometimes, the music changes somebody’s whole life. Nobody knows what things would happen to him if he did not have a chance to sink into the music. Music is the driving force keeping his life continues despite of his harsh childhood. For me, not as impressive as his example, I do have a song that makes me fascinated by singing. I sang the song for my cousin’s wedding in 2008 and it changed me a person who knows the excitement of singing and appearing on the stage. After that, my life cannot go on without music. I would like to ask- Is there any particular moment or the music that change your life? And if you do have, what did you get from that experience?

Secret

If you are interested in beautiful piano pieces, I strongly recommend watching this movie: Secret (2007). All of the music played in this movie is worth of listening. You will find yourself wanting to play the piano after watching this movie.

The movie is about a love story between two students. While a boy transferring to arts high school is looking around the school, meet a girl playing the piano in school’s old chamber. He is attracted by her beautiful playing. They fall in love while sharing their interests in the piano and spending time together. The boy makes a promise that he plays for her at the graduation ceremony, the day of tearing down the old chamber where they met each other for the first time. However, she suddenly disappeared and he cannot find her for a while, but while he is playing the music at the graduation, he comes to realize that she is watching his performance and right after he recognizes that, he runs after her.

There is a secret about their love story like the title says but I would not reveal that secret. It is good for you to find that secret by watching this movie !

Instead of the movie’s story itself, there is lots of beautiful piano music in the movie. One of the most popular scenes in the movie is the piano battle (I uploaded the video at the bottom. You will regret if you do not watch that video!!). It is hard to think that the movie’s main characters actually played that piece but they really played that for the movie.

I am sure that you are gonna enjoy this movie not only because of the movie itself but also because of the beautiful scenes and music and I recommend you to play one of the music covered in the movie if you are capable of playing the piano ! (I tried to play ‘the secret’, the movie’s main theme song).

Music with Movie

This week, I want to introduce not music or musician itself but the movie’s music that attracted me. The movie that I want to cover is “Once” released in 2008. I am a person enjoying watching movies but I did not watch the movie when it was first released because its genre is not one of my favorites. However, by accidentally, I saw a performance by a Korean singer singing ‘Falling Slowly’. After I listened to the music, I found myself sitting in front of a chair and looking for what the music is. The reason I was attracted by the music at once, the guitar’s sound and singers’harmony were so powerful and taking.

The movie, it is about a couple’s love story how they met each other, fell in love and so on. In the movie, a man who has wound in his mind about love met a woman while he is performing on the street. Thanks to her support for him and his music, he tried to make his album in London. By making the album and doing performances together, they fall in love and sing together with his guitar and her piano. ‘Falling slowly’ is one of those songs that is covered in the movie. The song is generally talking about love but its lyrics mainly tell main character’s love story. One of the facts that make the song more attractive is that those main characters actually become a couple (though they broke up later).

I think this song is one of the examples that a person’s life melts into the song though it is about the movie story. Therefore, by this song, I become more assured than before, that when the music which is combined with people’s lives and experiences, it could be more attractive. I strongly recommend this movie because I am sure that you would be moved at the movie, its story and music and you could also find yourself in film music covered in the movie.

Falling Slowly

Bruno Mars

         This week, I am going to introduce one of my favorite singers Bruno Mars. I know he is well-known and popular musician so someone could think why he is needed to be treated, but I really want to cover about him because these days, I totally get in the swing of his music and lyrics so by sharing my thoughts and reflections I think you could find some other attractions that you did not realized before.

Back to 2010 summer, I downloaded music unconsciously from pop chart. When I listened to the music randomly, there was a music that dragged me at once by its rhythms and lyrics. It was ‘Nothing on You’ that sung by B.o.B and featured by Bruno Mars. Before I listened to that music, I didn’t’ know who the Bruno Mars is and at first, I thought that song was sung by a single singer not featured by another singer. However, after I listened to the song, I tried to find who the singer is and other songs of him. By doing that, I came to realize that I was attracted by Bruno Mars, not B.o.B. (This does not mean that B.o.B. is a bad musician!! :) ) The first song except Nothing on you, that I listened was ‘Just the Way You Are’ which was released in 2010.

As its title shows, in this song, Bruno Mars keep saying to his lover that she is perfect enough the way she is. I love this song because of its lyrics. I really hope there is someone that I could sing this song (and also someone who do not care about my musical skill) because this song’s lyrics are so beautiful and all of the lyrics consists of words that I wanted to say to my lover.

By listening to this song, I considered what the real love is. For me, the real love is something that loving and trying to understand partner no matter what happened between your partner and you. I really hope you could also consider about what the real love is by this song though it is little cheesy.

I also uploaded another version of the song covered by Korean artist Standing Egg enjoy it ~

Covered by Standing Egg Original version of the Just the Way You Are