Can you really be nostalgic about a time that you didn’t live? The closest I can come to nostalgia is music from the 50’s such as: Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, and Tommy Dorsey. The music is so cheerful, reminiscent of better times when life was so much easier. It was a time when mental illness hardly existed, bacteria was nothing more than a thing of science, and it seemed like all the countries were getting along with each other. Sammy would sing, explaining why there’s nothing like a dame, Dean would tell you how to serenade you girl with Italian, and Frank telling us how it is “makin’ whoopee”. How could anyone argue against such songs that the times weren’t great, that everyone wasn’t happier back then than they are now?
Perhaps I’m nostalgic of a past life that has its ghost like memories floated in front of me when I listen to such music, or maybe the music simply does a profound job of portraying their feeling to the listener. I know that not everything was perfect back then, the great depression, world wars, Korea; but when I listen to the music all that disappears and there’s nothing but greatness.
3 comments:
I have the same feelings when I listen to that kind of music,especially Frank Sinatra.
Music for me brings back the memories I have long forgotten.
Oh I definitely know what you're talking about! I felt the strongest sense of nostalgia the first time I heard The Smiths, and I was a year old when they broke up. I also feel nostalgia when listening to Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald. I don't know why..it's like I can picture the time period perfectly; it's almost as if I was there. I know though, that what I'm picturing is only my interpretation of the time period and is nothing like how it was.
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