July 9, 2007

• //Never The End

  I dug out a few old CDs I bought back in 1991, just to see how well pop music of the early '90s hold up against the junk I listen to these days. Somewhat surprising to me, these "oldies" held up great. The songs I am not fond of are basically the sames ones I didn't like back then. The upbeat rock songs were, unfortunately, showing their age, sounding dated, and most of the time, down right silly. However, my favorite genre, the ballades, proved that pop music has evolved very little through out the years.
  
  Never The End, performed by Hashimoto Maiko for the 1987 - 1991 anime OAV hit, Bubblegum Crisis, was my favorite song outta the 30+ pieces composed for the series. This bittersweet, encouraging and inspiring song, coupled by Hashimoto's clean and charismatic vocal, helped in injecting passion into my illustration and written work. Maybe it's the superior talent over in the land of the rising sun. Maybe it's the timeless limbo the ballade genre seems to be stuck in. Maybe it's just that I refuse to let the old school within me go, as much as I embrace everything new. I still love the song, 16 years later.

  16 years later, I still hold faith more than ever that my ability will take me somewhere I need to be, and want to be.

  16 years later, manga and anime no longer have the same integrity or production value. But I still love to draw.

  16 years later, the lyrics I have written made my family wondered and even appalled at what I may have gone through in the ten years I've spent without them by my side.

  16 years later, friends found stories within my words and my singing. They are somehow convinced that I am a talent.

  16 years later, I believe even less in humanity, thanks to stupid people and hypocrites that wouldn't stop procreating.

  16 years later, I still have yet to put a face onto the singer of Never The End. If I ever meet her, I would show her how much her voice has inspired this guy, who has never learned an instrument, to write lyrics.

  16 years later, I've had the pleasure to meet the voice of Lynn Minmay of Macross. Her words to me were: Wow, you really listened to my songs. Not just Minmay's.

  16 years later, the world is on a retro trend. If Never The End holds up well almost twenty years later, then it might hold up till 2033 A.D., the year Bubblegum Crisis takes place.

  16 years later, I am still chasing my American dream with all my heart.

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