PARADOXICAL

Two 'twisted' songs

In the course of my uneventful work in community and with high school and college kids (where I teach - in the most subtle way, I hope, that competition is bad), I have met wonderful people from CYA, Lingkod, ALNP and IPD.

Among them is the bright dude with that weird name, Melmarx M., a former scholar and teacher at the Ateneo; Jun C. (brother to singer Jamie Rivera); and the reserved Mondie M.; among others. These are enviably gifted individuals, able to do a lot of different things that I can't. They are good at multitasking. They have years and years of experience behind them, and that can only mean wisdom for all of us asking for advice. (They are too humble to claim they know the secret, though.)

I reproduce below two ice-breaker songs I find jaw-dropping:

Take all of me

(This latter portion of the song is sung in the most kindergarten-ly manner…)

Take all of me

Take all of me

In a world that's lost

Help me count the cost

Take all of me

All my life

Be my symphony

Take all you can

Take everything (?)

Take all of me.

(…But the subject - total submission - is more suitable to some old man nearing death.)

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(A song from Maui)

(This one is simplistic. It's the accompanying action that's funny….)

Baby shark dada-da-dada (2x)

Mama shark dada-da-dada (2x)

Papa shark dada-da-dada (2x)

Grandma shark dada-da-dada (2x)

Grandpa shark dada-da-dada (2x)

Go to swim dada-da-dada (2x)

Saw a shark dada-da-dada (2x)

Swimming fast dada-da-dada (2x)

Lost one arm dada-da-dada (2x)

C-P-R dada-da-dada (2x)

Go to heaven dada-da-dada(2x)

(…But the message is something else: What we see as tragic may not be so tragic after all, if only we look at things from the perspective of the eternal. Wow, to think that this is sung ever-so-casually, as though nothing earth-shaking is being said.)

posted by Resty Odon  # 9:23 PM