ahm - so it's called Community." The small crowd laughed out loud when the brand new no. 1 sweetheart of nowadays feature writers Scott Matthew introduced the second song of his Leipzig set on May 15th. I laughed, too even though I was a bit surprised and irritated, not to say offended by two facts that were revealed when this sentence left the artists mouth.
First: Scott Matthew is a funny guy. He seems to enjoy his life - which might be indeed pretty enjoyable at the moment - he smiles all the time and cracks at least one joke in the very short break between to songs. (So beware! He only claims to be sad and depressed in order to make you love him.)
Second: "Community" is a song about togetherness. As far as I understood it listening to it via headphones sitting on the window board of my living room on the 5th floor at night drowning in self-pity it was about the opposite: loneliness.
This impression put the whole show in a different light for me. I couldn't stop to doubt the fact that fifty people sitting closely together in front of a very small stage were seriously being touched by the way the artist very close in front of them sang sings about - and that's the weird thing: loneliness.
For a second I earnestly considered to disturb the show to suggest, that everybody should enjoy the rest of it being hugged by their neighbour. But then a sentence came up to my mind, that I must have read in a novel by Erich Maria Remarque a few years ago. Loosely translated it says: Loneliness is not about lack of community.
But without community you'll never reach togetherness.
So: Who are you guys?
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"Frendschaft ist eine Kunst", says philosopher Harald Lemke in an interview in last edition of Neon. He is always surprised how little people do for their frienships. "Freundschaft ist nicht nur ain Gefühl, sondern Arbeit".
ReplyDeleteI just came across this platform and what I already like about it is the readiness to give without without calculating the return and its construtivist aspect.
Thanks for sharing the beautiful song!
Thanks a lot for your inspiring comment. "Freundschaft ist nicht nur ain Gefühl, sondern Arbeit." I think that is a very true sentence that many people do not consider when planning their time. A main aspect causing this increasing distance between people are in my opinion social networks. Collecting friends, contacts and telephone numbers won't keep you from feeling lonely. But it became more difficult to concentrate on a bunch of people since you can meet dozens of new ones that seem more interesting than the ones you already know each day. Social networks brought SPAM to real life.
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