Love is the spirit, amd the spirit is love. Oh, why the tautological platitude, is that your question? Well, I was listening to "You belong with me" by Taylor Swift, a song she wrote and sang in the initial part of her career, when she was literally the sweetheart of the entire U.S., not to forget the whole jing-bang, the fans of English pop music.
It is a cute song. It describes the typical Veronica-Betty-Archie love triangle. The speaker in the song is the Betty type, the good, nice, clean, innocent girl next door, who is sweet but not sexy. Veronica, on the other hand, is the cheer girl to Betty's 'bleacher' sit-out. She is clearly the 'rich bitch' type, too.
The speaker has the spirit, the soul, the heart of the guy who has a crush on a girl who just is not his type, who does not understand him, and makes him sad and blighted! Well, in Bollywood, we have the "pehla nasha, pehla khumar, naya pyar hai", literally the love anthem, from "Jo jita wohi Sikander", right? This song captures the same spirit, but only from the perspective of Anjali, the character enacted by Ayesha Jhulka.
Well, it is a song full of yearning. It celebrates the 'you make me better/complete, but I hang out with her' addiction. It is written in very simple English. The presentation of the nerdy but nice Taylor Swift is sweet, too.
Yet, it does raise certain basic questions as well. Why is the "you" Taylor Swift is singing/talking to, the guy who repeatedly 're-turns' to her for soulful solace and sweet smiles, so insensitive and stupid that he is ready to lust after a hothead?
Why is he ready to throw away the pearl, the diamond in his hand, to slightly misquote Othello!?! Is he then the worthy guy at all? Is she misreading his thoughtless insensitivity as friendship? Useless questions actually 'coz heart has reasons the head knows nothing of!
Pratima@"I love you not only for what you are, but also for what I am when I am with you, when I think of you," the 'high' of 'romantic' love!
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