Retro Rules!

I don't know if it's a weird thing for a girl like me, born in the 90's, that grew up in an all new generation filled with rebellious, ignorant teenagers, founds herself in love with mostly songs from the 80's. I bet none of my friends know who Stevie Wonder, Rod Stewart, and  James Taylor are. As I tell them they're really famous American singers back in the days, they would just give me the shortest response a person could reply when he/her is NOT interested in the topic that you're talking about, a typical "Oh". I'm really shocked and kind of disappointed to know that these famous icons are still not known to some people in my country, as well as others. I understand that kids are most likely to be influenced from their parents interests in music, or anything else like hobbies and the food they would usually go for. As for me, being mixed and having parents that totally dig English songs, I guess I somehow feel lucky because of the exposure I get from them on music that really makes sense in life.

To be quite honest with you, I totally hate songs playing on Lite FM when I was in my teens. I remember I had my Walkman with me in the car one day. I'd turned the volume up so high that whatever song that was on the radio I'd block them out my ears and just concentrate on the Green Day cassette playing on my Walkman. I really don't get why songs from back then, especially ones on love, had such a slow tempo and have cheesy lyrics to it. It just didn't work for me somehow.

All of that changed one day when my dad called me out of my room to watch a documentary tribute to John Lennon's birthday on October 9th. I went down to watch it because I LOVED The Beatles and the fact that I had some curiosity inside me on how he lived and finally died. Throughout the whole program something inside me was changing slowly and it did dramatically when the music video on John Lennon's Imagine came up. I didn't know what it did to me, but right after the show ended I headed straight to my room, opened my diary and started writing on how wonderful John Lennon's ideology of keeping peace and sustaining humanity. Shockingly, that was the night I started tuning to Lite FM, listening to John Denver, Phil Collins, Aretha Franklin and so much more. I realized the lyrics to their song were deep and inspiring to life.

I really have no idea what the future generation would think of John Lennon or any known artist that were once at their top some years back. Honestly if youngsters pick Lady Gaga or Nicki Minaj as an inspiration in their lives, they're missing out on something much better than them, icons that sang lovely tuned songs, giving insights on how genuinely life can be and how precious it is to each of us. I can say that John Lennon changed my views on music, who changed yours?

He's gorgeous *drools