I think it’s quite hard to choose just one song or an album which affected me as a child, because first of all I don’t really think songs like “bä bä vita lamm” can affect you so much and even if I take a song that I really loved, for example Spice Girls song “Stop” I don’t think lines like:
“Stop right now, thank you very much,
I need somebody with the human touch,
Hey you always on the run,
Gotta slow if down baby, gotta have some fun” can affect or change a girls life. I don’t mean that a person can’t say so, but honestly, if the lyrics is that simple and for me totally meaningless I think the reason why somebody claims that they have been affected by the song is because they have a memory to it. And when they hear the song played on the radio ten years later, they will remember that special memory and say that the song have made a big impact on them.
It’s a matter of a course that it’s often like that, not just when it comes to music but also different smells, special feelings and so on. If you had a perfume as a teenager which you used every day, of course you will feel strange if you smell that smell 30 years later.
I hope you’re getting my point. Anyway, if I have to make a summery of bands and artists I liked as a younger child it would look something like this: Spice Girls (of course, who didn’t like them?), All Saints, Backstreets Boys and Five. And I can say it again, these bands and their songs have not affected me because of their lyrics, I liked them at that time and that is the end of the story.
Me and my sisters did also have all those “absolute of” records, if you remember them. I think we had all CD’s from the time 1993 to 1999. Now, afterwards, I’m use to go in on the website: www.absolute.com and search for those old records that my little brother had an innocent habit of destroying and now years later download the song that we listened to. And I can say that some of it, was really good but some of it the opposite. But now, to the real point! I was told to write a few lines about a real music experience not babbling about absolute-CD’s and tying to make a point that really wasn’t a point just a thought I had that passed me by.
But now I’m realizing that I have written too much... So, I’m going to take this a little shorter: One day when I was looking on a TV show called “förkväll” a guy with a guitar came in and sang one of his songs called “let’s kill ourselves a son”. When he was done, I was in shock. I swear that was one of my best ”TV-experience”. When he sang and played his guitar, it sounded like a whole orchestra coming out of just one person. The guy’s name was Timo Räisänen and he had a new album coming out that you could order from his website. The first thing I did was to order the CD and I can just say that it wasn’t a disappointment. It’s my favorite album so far and this summer me and my friends went to see him on a festival in Helsingborg and that was absolute the best concert I have ever been on. So there you have it, an album that has affected me a lot and I know that in ten years I will still love the guy! In forty or fifty years I hope that I will not forget my Finnish hero Timo Räisänen.
I already know what the words “P.S I Loved you” means, it was an essay about Beatles. So I can’t write about that.
