No Doubt the Mall has Music
For some reason, shopping at malls have a tendency to cause music to stick in my head. I'm not sure exactly why, but it has happened a number of times, such as here. Well, its happened again.
I'm not exactly the frequent mall patron, but I found myself in the mall several times over the past few weeks, including last week when I went to pick up a suit at the Men's Warehouse. The mall played No Doubt's “Don't Speak,” the chorus of which lodged itself in my head thereafter:
Don't speak
I know just what you're saying
So please stop explaining
Don't tell me cause it hurts
Don't speak
I know what you're thinking
I don't need your reasons
Don't tell me cause it hurts
I've never actually heard of No Doubt. I did hear that song sometime last decade when it was new, but I never paid attention to who it was from. Well, the next week, I was at Borders Books, Music and Cafe (which is an anchor tenant at the same mall) and another song lodged itself in my head, but this time, only the accompanying instruments — I couldn't recall the words, which was even more frustrating than having a song in my head to which I could recall the words. I happened to be on iTMS looking to see what No Doubt sounded like beyond “Don't Speak” and tried listening to a song called “Running.” As it turned out, that was the second song I heard in the mall.
Running, running
As fast as we can
I really hope we make it
(Do you think we'll make it?)
We're running
Keep holding my hand
It's so we don't get separated
If you're waiting for some kind of pithy conclusion, I confess I don't have any. I just found it interesting that (1) music seems more likely to be “sticky” to my brain at the mall and (2) in the last two or three weeks, I've heard multiple songs from the same band (which I was not familiar with) at the same mall that managed to get stuck in my head.
Anyone else have a song stuck in your noggin at the moment?
Do yourself a favor and check out their best CD, Tragic Kindom. Good Stuff. We saw the whole story a few years back on VH1 Behind the Music?? thing they used to do. We didn't know what the songs were about but my wife and I liked the CD. Then we saw the story on how Gwen the lead singer basically ripped into the guy on almost every song about how hurt she was. Once again proving that pain, and hardship make great music.
I will do that, Mark. Thanks for the suggestion. For the most part, I sort of stumble on to music. I don't listen closely enough to the radio to catch who sang what, unless it really catches my attention. These days, I'm getting better, since I can Google for a key phrase that I might recall, but before that… I'm not typically adventurous enough on music to find much new outside of hearing it on the radio or having it recommended to me. No Doubt I should have heard of 'em, though.
I believe Don't Speak comes from the album you mention, doesn't it? I'll have to listen to the rest of the samples on iTMS or Amazon…
You have a point about pain and hardship. Pain, hardship and musical talent. I could have all the hardship in the world, and I suspect I still wouldn't produce a good piece of music.