Tekstit
"If life brings you to it, it will bring you trough it"
I find this to be both comforting and true. Except maybe when it comes to Montreal traffic. It's hard to come out of it alive. I'm strongly for sharpening the driver license test in this province. Not that I think this is a matter that is being discussed anywhere else than in my head, but if I could vote, it would definitely be a yes.
November is almost over. Time flies when you're having fun. Feels like my life mostly circles around Spanish homework and bachata. I love how music just flips things around all of a sudden. You can first listen to a genre of music and think that it all sounds the same. Like an ever lasting song. You don't know when and why it started or when and why it doesn't end. This was how I felt about my dearest Dominican's bachata music. I tried to be polite and let him listen to rhythms from his country. Now all of a sudden it is me who will ask for it when together in the car or hanging out at home. I basically bachata myself out of bed every morning, the thought of being able to listen to it when driving to work is the thing that makes me stop the snooze and get up. Montreal traffic is way calmer to bachata. At work, I can't wait to bachata myself home. Doing grocery shopping to a puppy voiced soft male latino artist just for some reason goes smoother and I end up buying more fruits and vegetables it seems. I even bench press at the gym to these seductive soft tunes. Before it was rock, the harder the better, to pump that needed force into my muscles. Now it's just aaah aaaah aaah aah aah aaaa... all the way back home.
It is Romeo Santos who has opened this new window into a magical bachata land, where traffic is smoother, seances clearer and dreams possible. He has a voice that first comes off as a bit too baby soft but later turns into a kinda addictive...hmm I don't want to say drug but something forbidden that you end up craving for. Maybe like that really, really good glass of wine, that just gently slinks into your body, mind and soul and takes away all worries and regrets and replaces them with pure,positive and possible images dancing around in your brain.
He is known for his great lyrics and as my Spanish is nothing but great yet, I find it very helpful to watch these videos with lyrics to the songs, that a kind stranger put up on YouTube. A different kind of Spanish lesson and a nice break from the homework that is given to me by my enthusiastic Bolivian teacher.
So life brought me to crazy Montreal traffic and it gave me bachata to help me get through it...at least for now.
