Today I read on twitter that the Theme Song of one of my Shows is going to return and that got me thinking about the time when I started watching that Show and what the song meant to me, especially the lyrics and all.
To lift the suspense now I am talking about One Tree Hill, a show I started watching in 06 a little under a year after my diagnosis, kinda at the same time I finally got around to accept my illness. Some of you may know the song that was sort of a synonym for the show for four years and then suddenly disappeared when the fifth season started.
Gavin DeGraw’s I don’t want to be is an awesome song.
Listen closely to the chorus and then you can probably understand why this song was so important to me back then.
A little hint …. I don’t want to be anything other than ME! [I don't want to be ---Lyrics]
And like Lindsay Wolfington, the musical advisor on OTH tweeted this morning (for me at least) the theme song and the opening credits are back but with a special music every week an artists covers the song and his or her version will be used for the opening sequence but Gavin kicks off the party. I might have to get back to watching OTH and if it is only for the music. (or i could wait and buy the versions? or someone could send them to me, please?!) btw for those of you who don’t know it Lindsay is also the music supervisor for Ghost Whisperer, so you know she is fantastic at her job.
Anyway like I said through OTH and Gavin DeGraw I discovered the power of music and the way lyrics can influence you. This is probably why I identified so much with Peyton even though I am not all that artistic. In school I sang in the choir (not show choir aka Glee) normal traditional without competition just for fun! We sang Musical classics and Disney and stuff. Later on the more talented did Anatevka and we wrote our own version of Shakespeares Midsummernights Dream called Nightfever. And yes you guessed it it was a musical which borrowed from Saturday Nightfever! I am still singing but only on parties and only karaoke and I am in no way claiming that I can sing. I do that for fun and for my lungs, because my doctors think my lung function is too weak…. Hey I am working as a lifeguard in the summer so how can that be?
Another song that deeply influences my life is Christina Aguilera’s Beautiful.(starts at 0:30)
She reminds us all that we are beautiful and shouldn’t let anyone tell us different. This song is so true and raw and touching I can’t even put it in words.
Tell me about your theme songs? Which songs touch you and influence you or is music not your thing?
I am open to discussion.
And to finish a beautiful quote
Music is what feelings sound like. ~Author Unknown
