Paula Abdul: Rush Rush (Music Video)

While I claim to be no fan of Paula Abdul, or Keanu Reeves, for that matter, I can’t help but like this song.

Released in 1991, the song features Paula Abdul, flagging off a drag race between a twenty-something, chocolate-faced Keanu Reeves and a local toughie. Dunno why, but each time I hear this song (and I have been known to listen to it more times than I can remember), an inordinate feeling of sadness and emptiness engulfs me, especially when Abdul and Reeves ask each other if they have been in love, and whether it is “terrible.”

Ironically, this song still features in my top five favorite songs of all times.

Strange, you’d say. But I guess that’s what I am. A bundle of contradictions.....

See the video here.

Nothing Else Matters

I was introduced to this Metallica song when I was in post grad.

By someone who I loved.

Tremendously.

But it wasn't meant to be, I s'pose. It left me numb, mute, in agonizing trauma, restless, a deep sense of betrayal and endless sweat-inducing insomnia overwhelming me like a shadow that had decided to never part. An overpowering inability to never trust or worse, LOVE anyone else, theatened me, making me teeter dangerously, swinging between bitter resentfulness and ironically, fond nostalgia, that ran a painful shaft through my throbbing chest.

And of course, with a number of unanswered queries. That I will probably never get answers to. Darn!

To come back to the post at hand, I connected almost instantly with Nothing Else Matters.

It's been almost like an anthem ever since.

I don't fancy myself a crooner, but can do a pretty decent job with this one. Like He could.

For right now, you'll have to make do with the lyrics.

Nothing Else Matters
- Metallica

So close no matter how far
couldn't be much more from the heart
forever trusting who we are
and nothing else matters

never opened myself this way
life is ours, we live it our way
all these words I don't just say
and nothing else matters

trust I seek and I find in you
every day for us something new
open mind for a different view
and nothing else matters

never cared for what they do
never cared for what they know
but I know

so close no matter how far
couldn't be much more from the heart
forever trusting who we are
and nothing else matters

never cared for what they do
never cared for what they know
but I know

never opened myself this way
life is ours, we live it our way
all these words I don't just say
and nothing else matters

trust I seek and I find in you
every day for us something new
open mind for a different view
and nothing else matters

never cared for what they say
never cared for games they play
never cared for what they do
never cared for what they know
and I know

so close no matter how far
couldn't be much more from the heart
forever trusting who we are
no nothing else matters

Don't fancy yourself a singer?
Nevermind, hear the song and see the video here.

P.S.-There have been other songs.

'Unforgiven II' comes a close second.

I am partial to 'One' and 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' too.

But one thing is for sure- Nothing appeals to me the way Nothing Else Matters does!

Hail James Hetfield.