Found Without Translation

Music speaks to me.

Always has.

The greatest thing about music, like laughter, it has the inherent ability to cross all language barriers and, like beauty, is open to individual interpretation.

Take the following two songs for example:

Buena Vista Social Club - Chan Chan



Pharcyde - Jealousy



Completely different genres with completely different messages. And, while one was clearly influenced by the other in the form of a chorus sample, the stories each song tells are entirely unique.

Not many mediums can pull off that trick so smoothly, dear readers.

That's probably the reason why music and I have had such a successful relationship over the years: it always understands me and, more importantly, it never tells me what to do.

Unless I listen to it backwards, of course.