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Have you ever experienced “love at the first sight?” I bet some of you maybe have, and some other maybe say “No way. I haven’t, and I won’t,” the rest maybe say “I don’t know. I don’t know when love exactly comes.”

Well, there’s no right or wrong when we are talking about love. But, let me tell you. If you ask me “have you ever experienced love at the first sight?” my answer will be “I have…a lot, for sure.”

I have experienced it a lot of time and it keeps happening. And the next possible question will be, “with whom?”

With those gorgeous creatures a.k.a handsome guys, “No!”

“but with songs, with music!”

How come?

If you ever loved somebody, you would know why.

This time I will tell you about Kiss the Rain, a song by Yiruma. I often say that music is music even if it has no lyrics, it will become music, no matter what. Try to listen to music or songs without deliberating its lyrics, if you do you’ll find out its real lustre beyond its so called lyrics. Lyrics are just an additional pseudo component in music. What is actually the real is what you can feel what’s in it, not by hearing it with your ears. It’s fake. Listen and feel it with your heart, and you can go beyond what your ears can hear, you will be able to find the soul, the core of it and definitely you’ll find out yourself in peace and harmonious backdrop.

Kiss the Rain by Yiruma is a classical music which was beautifully composed in 2003 for the Album “the Yellow Room.” It is one of Yiruma’s best pieces. Kiss the Rain is a kind of modern classical music or many call it as contemporary classical, why it is modern? Yiruma who was born in 1978, is someone who is of course years more modern than years of Mozart or Beethoven or even Frederic Chopin’s. Yiruma, with his style, brings his peculiarly pattern and movement in every single piece he arranges. he He has phased a New Age of the classical music era. He brings modernism in classical music along with his structure and pattern of every single piece he creates. His pieces are undeniably hearable even for those who are not classical music devotee.

Back to the “Kiss the Rain.”

Kiss the Rain has melodious lilting notes. Every single tone perfectly shapes it up. No lyrics or voice sounding in it, but it rhymes elegantly swelling the flow of every key’s tone played dramatically by the virtuoso Yiruma. I hardly verbalize what I’m feeling when listening to it, seriously. It melodiously hits my ears, and brain and eventually you feel it, you literally feel it. It’s so relaxing, yet it’s not a lullaby which you can listen and after a while you sleep. It is not, absolutely not. You can hardly let this go off your ears. You will just enjoy it and feel it. It will amazingly make you in a sort of peace.

A brief about Yiruma

Yiruma is the stage name of Lee Ru-ma (born February 15, 1978), an internationally-known pianist and composer from South Korea. Yiruma frequently performs at sold-out concerts in Asia, Europe and North America. His alma mater, King's College London, England helped him gain European popularity and recognition. Among his most popular pieces are "River Flows in You", "Kiss the Rain" and "May Be". Yiruma's most popular album, First Love, was released in 2001.

Yiruma has released nine albums, so far. Here are the following titles of his albums:

2001 Love Scene

2001 First Love

2003 From The Yellow Room

2004 Nocturnal Lights... They Scatter

2005 Destiny of Love

2005 Poemusic

2006 H.I.S. Monologue

2008 P.N.O.N.I

2012 Stay In Memory

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Unintended by Muse Review

by Oka - 04:46

I feel like I’ve just been triggered by something indescribable which suddenly coming rushing into my brain. But kinda like it.

Well, let’s get down to the business.

I'll start with a song sung by Muse, a rock band from Teighmouth, Devon, England. The title is called “unintended”. When first hearing this song, I melted. It was literally out of the world. The way Matthew Bellamy singing it is astonishingly breathtaking, seriously. I bet that many of you have ever experienced of hearing it, or even listening to it. In case you haven’t, give a try on it! Getting yourselves heard that one song is something that can’t easily verbalized. I loved it, I love it. Sure, so do you, don’t you?

“Unintended” is a song included in Showbiz album of Muse’s. It was in 1999, if I’m not mistaken. Well, since Muse carries kind of alternative rock genre, yet this song is just a lil bit influenced by that sort of alternative rock genre. It is slow, – I put it on my “slowmotion” playlist – and somehow rumbling plus the gloomy saddening sound that you will feel through this “unintended.” The intro part was amazingly composed and start from it you can directly “feel” it as well as if you listen to the whole part of the song. The lyrics were beautifully arranged by the vocalist, Matthew James Bellamy. In addition, the music is pretty melodic and I think it’s pretty different from any other songs in the Showbiz album, for example, like in sober. Differently from “Unintended,” “Sober” really got the sense of the alternative genre.

Now, move on to the lyrics itself…

Firstly, I want to talk about the title, “unintended.” At the first time I heard it, I thought the meaning referred to “intention.” I kept on searching for the real meaning of it but I ended up with no clues. Just about three years ago, I finally found what it exactly meant. I looked up my Cambridge, I started with the word “Intended” and came out the meaning that was “the person that you are going to marry,” I think it’s similar with fiancée or fiancé. So I come with the conclusion that referring to the meaning of “Intended,” “Unintended” means that it is to call someone you love but you, for some reasons, can’t marry him/her. You’ll find out why it is so later when you finish reading this whole post.

You could be the one I'll always love

You could be the one who listens to my deepest inquisitions

You could be the one I'll always love

I'll be there as soon as I can

So, why do I highlight some words above? The words “could be” shows probability, so he wishes that she could be the one he always loved, but the reality seems different. They can’t be together, they can’t get married, they can’t love each other for their entire lives. The man told in the lyrics is still trying to fix the broken-heart he got after breaking up with his previous lover. Instead of moving on, he still keeps on looking back to what he used to have when he was with her, yet, at the same time, he has found someone that he thought she could be his intended, not so long he knows that it can’t be. He knows he can’t just get rid of his previous memories, and he loves his new lover. He then realizes that the way he loves his previous lover is way too much than the way he loves his new lover. That is why “She could never be as good as you, you could be my unintended.”

You should be the one I'll always love

I'll be there as soon as I can

But I'm busy mending broken pieces of the life I had before

I'll be there as soon as I can

What a heartbreaking, right?

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