I’m struggling to feel inspired at the moment.
I can do the regulars – Snapshots, Namesakes, Songs For Dead
People – but while I have a bunch of other post ideas… I really can’t be
bothered to write them up. New Year blues, I guess.
Here’s a new series which might get forgotten after its
first post, or might just turn into a list of HMHB tunes. Songs that have made
me Laugh. Out. Loud.
If I do write further posts, maybe I’ll discuss the thorny
issue of why certain members of the musical cognoscenti believe there’s no
place for humour in a serious pop song.
Or maybe I’ll examine why I find it so hard to laugh these
days. I remember in my youth, laughing till the tears rolled down my face…
nowadays the most I manage is a “tut of amusement”.
Maybe I’ll even find something to ponder about the
incredibly subjective nature of humour – how it divides our tastes even more
than music.
In the meantime, here’s a song that did make me laugh out loud the
first time I heard it, earlier this week. The general theme of the lyrics
provoked a recurring “tut of amusement”, though my liberal / snowflake /
prudish tendencies weren’t sure about the repeated references to the dog biting
his Mum’s bits. However, what raised this song to a genuine guffaw level was
the twist in the middle, when he takes the dog to the vets.
Subjectively, this may not work for you at all. However, if
it makes one other person laugh the way I did, if I can share out the
endorphins, dopamine, serotonin etc… if only for a moment… then this will have
been a good post.
