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July 3, 2004 Most of us are familiar with the child's tale of the Pied Piper. The mysterious musician leads the rats away from the ungrateful town then leads the children away to humble them. Here is the new installment of the story: the Pied Piper and the Teenage Girls. The teen girls of the town find out that he plays his own pipe (sings too!) and swoon over him immediately. They rush home, create a site dedicated to him and then throw their underwear at him whenever he plays in the town tavern. So that didn't really happen. Everyone's a skeptic; however, the Pied Pipers of today have gotten hold of vulnerable teenage heartstrings and given them a good yank. The MTV generation is addicted to music. If you're in a band, you're cool. If you write lyrics, you're awesome. If you play the guitar, you're the incarnation of God. To put it simply, music rocks. I'm not here to talk about music though. What I'm talking about is teenage girls being attracted to musicians. Picture this: a girl (let's call her Gwen) is a high school freshman. She is going steady with a guy (let's call him Chris) who plays football, baseball, and gets straight A's. Gwen is an average student, a semi-friendly chick who loves-you guessed it-music. Any guy who can play the drums, play the guitar, sing, or all three is her man. Poor Chris doesn't stand a chance against the onslaught of the musically adept. How does this eventually turn out? I sure don't know. Musicians are strange people: some are the deep, brooding kind, and others are posers, some fall in-between, but a musician is a musician and all musicians have appeal. Gwen meets Jack. He's in three bands, plays the drums, guitar, saxophone AND sings. He isn't that great looking but hey? Who's looking? He's a musician and it's as simple as that. What about Chris? Well…he plays the flute… Ironically, the flute/pipes have warped into guitars. Acoustic shows a sort of sensitivity while electric shows a rocker that's unafraid to PAR-TAY. Let's have a success story shall we? Robert is an all out nerd. His aspiration in life is to be the next Bill Gates. Heck, he has a life- sized poster of him in his room that he kisses goodnight every night at his bedtime (9 PM sharp) without fail. But Robert still wants a girlfriend. For heaven's sake he's almost 20 and has never had a date! One summer, he wises up and buys a guitar. He teaches himself to play it and by the time school rolls around he's pro. The next summer, he's cheating on his girlfriend with her best friend, but only because SHE started it. This is getting pathetic, girls. Why are you so attracted to them? Some of them won't even serenade you if you begged them! Perhaps it's the idea that a guy who plays his own music actually thinks using his brain rather than his…stomach. It seems that every girl classifies musicians as "hot." Nine out of ten girls at my high school here in Singapore (and I'm in an AMERICAN high school populated by 60% American 10% European and 40% Asian/Australian students) go to our annual rocking salute to peace just for the guys. I don't get it. I mean I'm watching this guy right now who is playing his guitar and humming…hey! That's my favorite song! Well so long folks…if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. A word of advice to all you guys without dates? Pick up the guitar. Learn to sing. You'll have a date in no time. ------------ About the author Ambreen Momin: Want to read more of her work? Visit www.fictionpress.com/~inzaniti or email: stardust_inc786@hotmail.com Tell a friend about this site! ------------ |
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