[Haven’t Met You Yet – Michael Buble]
Day 07: Write about the arts (music, art, dancing).
Well, the very idea of writing about something is the arts, isn’t it?
And seeing as how I am studying the Arts, you’d think I’d have a lot of things to write about.
Look, I don’t like it when Arts make themselves more pompous and contrived than everyone else. I don’t like it when, to be considered High Class, you have to go see an opera, understand the hell they’re singing, get the deeper message, and come out of it complaining that the soprano was actually better suited as an alto.
To me, music, art, dancing, whatever, it’s just something that should be enjoyed. And if you happen to enjoy slightly ‘trashy’ music, or you would rather pump your fists to a steady beat than to draw out some complicated rhythm with your damn shoulder-blade, or your idea of art is to draw a funny stick figure comic rather than sweeping swatches of emotions, then that’s great for you, and if it gives you good feelings, then that’s all I care about.
And if you happen to like shoulder-blade dancing and fancy paintings, and that makes you happy too, then go for it!
The one thing I do not like about studying Arts is the expectation of what kind of person I should be. I am an Arts student, therefore I must understand and have an opinion on Marxism, and smoke a pack before lunch, and slowly but surely grow a terrible haircut.
But if that’s what makes you happy. I can’t care less.
Alex.
the life and laughs of me 