The Chainsmokers - #SELFIE

I remember in Grade 3 going to my best friend's birthday party. I don't remember the circumstances leading up to it; possibly I'd been so excited the night before that I couldn't sleep and was as a result quite grumpy, but I did not have a fun time. Maybe I just lost one of the party games and cracked the sads; I could be a shit of a kid at times. There is a photo of me from this party in one of my photo albums and I'm smiling (or forcing a smile) in that, so I can't have been in a terrible mood all the way through. But I do recall that there was crystallised sugar around the tops of all the drinking glasses. This was probably meant to be a fun thing for the kids of the party but I hated it. I hated the feel of the hardened sugar on my lips every time I wanted a drink, and bits kept falling off into my drink and I hated seeing them float around in my drink and I hated even more if I got a clump of it in my mouth when drinking. I also didn't know most of the other kids there aside from his siblings so I kind of felt awkward, but that didn't stop me having a massive sook before the end of the party and leaving and going outside which was really quite rude. His mother had to come out looking for me and they had a large property. She was quite nice about it, and convinced me to come back inside. Either the party was about to end anyway or she called my mum to come and pick me up. I even remember that before we'd left the driveway I was complaining to my mum about everything at the party (especially the sugared glasses) and blaming my friend's mother for the horrible party and my mum was probably thinking what a brat I was and just said "She tried her best". This is probably one of my most shameful and awkward memories to think about even though I have a lot of them. Because it's one of the ones where I can see now that I was so far in the wrong that I don't like thinking about it. There's little I can do about it now but I can't forget it which I don't like. We moved away the next year and I changed schools and lost contact with my friend and probably wouldn't recognise him or his family anymore, but they'll stick with me for that.

As for Selfie, I don't know how to take it. At first I was horrified with the vocals, lyrics and beat, and I still don't like it at all. I don't find it funny, or enjoyable, or to be anything resembling good music. The lyrics are vapid and shallow, but I guess if I were in a restaurant or something and overheard this conversation, I might eavesdrop for a few minutes just for the wtf nature of it, and that's the same feeling I get here really. I do hate the beat drop but now that I've heard this song in full a few times it does seem less irritating than I initially thought. I probably wouldn't be able to bear hearing this much more but the main thing that saves it from being completely and utterly unbearable for me is that it's at least something somewhat different for a dance/club track in a period where most of them seem to have the same boring sound to me. And for that I shall give it a second star.
Zuletzt editiert: 02.04.2014 13:48