”I'm not playin' hangman with you
I've run out of letters, let alone words
You've got me shiverin' in my spine
[ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/o/opshop/maybe.html ]
If everything turned out as we had said
We wouldn't have to sit here talkin' like this
Maybe I would be a better fit in my own skin
Maybe”
I've run out of letters, let alone words
You've got me shiverin' in my spine
[ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/o/opshop/maybe.html ]
If everything turned out as we had said
We wouldn't have to sit here talkin' like this
Maybe I would be a better fit in my own skin
Maybe”
Maybe – Opshop
I find the word ‘maybe’ quite an interesting term – it’s a
sitting on the fence kind of decision you make when you cannot make up your
mind. It’s how you reply to Facebook event invites if you’re unsure what you
will be up to that night ... or don’t want to go to said event. Or you can only
rationalise an 11.4% chance you will be off work that night and can find a ride
to the events location. For a better definition of ‘maybe’ I hit up google. The
first return was Call Me Maybe. Ugh.
A scroll down and maybe shows uncertainty, much like the characters in this
Opshop song, and much like my opinion of Opshop’s lead singer Jason Kerrison
... maybe I like him.
Jason Kerrison is the good and the bad of New Zealand music.
He’s the lead singer of a pretty sweet New Zealand band – not the best, not the
worst, but somewhere between Evermore (higher up there) and The Feelers (a bit
lower down). He’s currently a judge on New Zealand’s Got Talent and, while I have
only watched a few episodes, he’s doing a not so bad job bringing people into
the entertainment business. And he came into the semi finals Rockstar Supernova
back in 2006 and while he never made our screens in the final 15, he’s the Kiwi
which got the furthest on the Rock Star stage.
But maybe Kerrison isn’t all that amazing – after all he’s
in an above average but not amazing Kiwi band which puts out good songs, including
the one which was on the New Zealand Post ad. He’s on New Zealand’s Got Talent
which, in my opinion, didn’t quite live up to its expectations. And he built an
ark to survive the 2012 apocalypse thing. Built it from scratch for his family.
Like, AN ENTIRE ARK! I don’t find that maybe weird, I find that weird full stop.
Interestingly, amongst my sitting on the fence musings of
Jason Kerrison, I realised I find Opshop’s music average in the overall scheme
of music. I pride myself on loving New Zealand music and have even dedicated the
last blog of every month to a Kiwi artist. But when I think about it honestly I
don’t love, or even particularly like, every single New Zealand song. I do love
some, I hate some, and some I ... maybe sitting on the fence with uncertainty
like, but that's just the way music preferences work. And while Jason Kerrison probably won’t be the Kiwi musician who will
change the world, he hasn’t done anything wrong. Apart from this ark business...
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