CAS(UPLB) 2012-98083
Music makes the world go round
When I heard the song Fly
me to the Moon in class, it sounded so familiar to me then it came to me
that this song was used for the ending theme of Neon Genesis Evangelion, the
anime series I used to watch before. It was unusual for anime productions to
use Jazz music as a theme song thus, I remembered it clearly. Amazingly, Fly me to the Moon was produced in 1954 and many artists across the globe still
sing this song and make their rendition. In 1962, when this song was covered by
Frank Sinatra, it was also the time when the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) was into the Apollo expedition, which aims to send people
to the moon. Fly me to the Moon was
brought by Apollo 10 and 11 and became the first song played on the moon.
A lot of songs are inspired by
love. Even since thousands of years ago, people were singing love songs
already. Fly me to the Moon is a
romantic love song because love is a universal value in any societies and in any
period of time in the world. They were sung because love has always been a
major concern of human beings. Likewise,
there have been songs about future technologies also because humans have dreamt
and imagined of new technologies, which will enable us to see a brighter
future. Technologies can formulate new types of music. On the other hand, music
can also portray the present technology and can even predict the development of
new technologies.
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