I've always wondered how much fun life would be with background music. Imagine....you walk into a crowded cafeteria, the fan blows on your face, the air sings, your hair flies, you laugh delicately.....and then there's this soft tune in the background and everyone turns to look at you. Or you're feeling incredibly smart and important, there's a kind of jump in your stride, you look around smartly, smile flashing your dimples, wave like a cool dude [and there's stayin' alive playing in the background]...or you turn around and he's staring at you with brown eyes and messy hair [and there's a heartbeat tune in the background as you smile]
but....this could get incredibly messy! does the tune play according to you or others? because you make be a villian to some and a sweetheart to others. so you walk in, and think some mean thoughts to yourself about a particular girl you just cannot stand [and there's the traditional vamp title track from a cheap b-grade serial playing in the background. uh-oh]. Or you're stealing a glance at someone during a rather important seminar [and a loud, raunchy love song plays in the background accompanied with occasional heavy breathing, while you tried so hard to conceal your horny sentiments].
and if everyone has background music, everyday may seem like a major rowdy, loud festival.....and we'll get so used to the noise of overlapping tracks that it'll cease to be special....
since whatever you feel plays as background music, you can't talk to yourself anymore and you won't have to make an effort to understand people anymore. for example, slow, melancholic music will play while a friend, who looks happy, but is actually sad walks by. before this system of background music, you'd make an effort to go to her, understand her. with everything so direct now, you'll just go to her and ask her what the matter is and if she refuses to tell you, her background music will! everything will be so direct, so blatant! perhaps we'll become better human beings who think only good thoughts all the time [which would be really boring], or we'd be smart and change the settings and language of the background music. if a kanada song is playing in my background and I speak loudly enough to conceal the tune, who's going to understand what it means? right!
while it would be crazy fun during romantic moments [yes! rain dances will become more common], by the end of it we'd be deaf, blatantly direct and honest [killing a few people and losing a few friends], and the magic would be lost since we take it for granted. yes! i have decided! its more fun when background music plays in my head! that way you'll never know what I'm thinking....yes, if you're not sure of your audience, suspence and spontaneity is way better!
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