Aight so, 

What’s up with the hate for slowww music? I give a song suggestion . . .

BAM! Shot down faster than the tempo of the songs they listen to. 

I’m all about being open-minded. After all, life is just an adventure. To try new things. Experience new things. Those are just the rules I live by and I’m always welcoming of people who want to hop on the ride with me.

But that’s kinda hard when people just abhor any of my preferences and are all closed up.

Few days back, I get passed the AUX. Full ride in the Toyota CRV, I had to show them the real deal. So what do I do? First open up Spotify (No spons by the way). Click on the search icon. Search for “Wonderful Tonight” by Eric Clapton. 

Simple.

I knew I would get them with this but when the music started playing they started shouting . . .

“C’mon what’s up with the Elvis?” Wrong artist there bud.

“Thanks I needed to sleep anyways” I guess I corroborate.

“Is this what you listen to in your free time?” Oh heck yeah!

Then my man.  My best friend who’s always got my back says, “I guess I like it” when I could see straight through his head absolutely brutalizing it. 

I just didn’t get it.

I’m a very logical person. To me, this song is pure perfection in terms of mechanics.

Romantic, full step glissandos. Triplet eight rest triplet bass pattern . Ingeniously beautiful descending melody. And of course the singing electric guitar as the icy on the darn cake. It ain’t get any better than this. Also steel string guitar version isn’t all that bad either.

But I’m also pretty emotional (I don’t show it often) and emotionally speaking, this song is the mother of them all. The heartwarming lyrics blending in with the tropical-sunset-esque backdrop creates for an extremely relaxing, romantic, rejuvenating record. It makes you imagine something like this:

I guess I am a little biased as I pretty much grew up listening to the 60s and 70s. And what’s the common denominator between them? They are melodic and slow.

Isn’t to say I don’t like fast music either. I just feel as though music becomes more enjoyable the slower it is. And to be completely honest–though Wonderful Tonight is the end all be all song for me now–I actually didn’t like it the first hearing. I much preferred his other hit song “Tears in Heaven” but the more I listened to it, the more I started to pick up on the genius of it.

And that song alone single-handedly convinced me to start playing the guitar again after having to put it down in my earlier years. Now I’m so attached to my guitar I have to limit myself to 10 minutes of guitar for every 50 minutes of studying.

So I suggest yall take a few listens to it with the link below. For me I would say my life has changed pretty drastically after listening to this, so hey! As I said before, life is an adventure. There’s no real harm in it and I’d say it’s 100% worthwhile.

For those who decide to try it out or have known of it before, please comment!

Click here to listen to Wonderful Tonight by Eric Clapton.