Music as a Global Golden Thread

I was going to write more about my coffee shop cruising in Colorado Springs yesterday, but my mind kept coming back to music.

Last night, while I was making chicken tacos and playing on Facebook, I noticed that a FB friend from Saudia Arabia was posting classic rock videos on his wall. It started with Ram Jam’s Black Betty and AC/DC with TNT, and I started to send requests for The Who, The Beatles, and The Doors. He was coming through with American Woman, Help!, LA Woman, Led Zeppelin, Elvis, and others.

As I listened, I re-posted them to my wall, clicked Like, and moved to the next video while in the kitchen dancing and making the chicken for my tacos. I started to watch the response of my videos…friends from Colorado, Wisconsin, Florida, and Italy started to click Like, comment, and share on their own walls. Monday Night Rocks! on Facebook started around 4 a.m. Saudi Arabia time, which is 7 p.m. Mountain Time.

I’m not sure which I enjoyed more – the classic rock or watching what a simple music video can do around the world. This morning I was delighted to see that another Facebook friend from Saudi Arabia picked up a couple videos. Abdulaziz’s Monday night (Tuesday morning for him) Video Jockey-ing went around the world and back to his home. How amazing is that?

I began to dig a little more into the archives of some of my Facebook friends for more videos. Piter posted Be Happy and this morning, Alaa sent me a Backstreet Boys music video to me with a note about how it was one of her videos as a child. I think it’s called “I Want It That Way,” but I’m not sure. One thing I love about the lyrics is “…we are two worlds apart…” I realize it’s a love song, but it made me think about how these friends are halfway around the world from me, yet we are all one, in one world.

Music….a global golden thread sewing us back together. It’s not “the” golden thread because literature, art, philosophy, etc….it brings us all together. I was using www.freetranslation.com to decipher some posts and found some beautiful conversations about Shakespeare’s work, love, and of course, politics.

My hat’s off to Abdulaziz for doing his part in helping to “sew” us back together, one music video at a time!

peace,

Kristy