So how many people remember the song “Killing Me Softly with his Song”???.........How many people have heard pan flute music??? Well can you imagine every morning while you are eating breakfast at the hotel, you hear all of the old songs done with a pan flute. The songs are, “Killing me softly”, “Godfather Theme Song”, “Love Story”, etc. They go on and on, over and over. The tape system or whatever they use in the hotel restaurant must be a continuous tape. I can tell when I need to be finishing up my breakfast so that I do not miss my driver, because the “Godfather Theme” is playing.
I thought this morning the machine was broken and the restaurant was quiet, so I started playing my music on my iPhone to break up the monotony. Then someone in the back room realized that the tape was not playing so the theme song of “Titanic” started up. One can only take so much pan flute music. It is an acquired taste and I do not think I have it yet and I do not plan to appreciate it in the very near future.
Just had to get that off my chest. It reminded me of when I was in college and my roommate played the theme song of “Shaft” over and over again. I exploded one day and it was not a pretty sight.
So I guess I had better start looking for my apartment soon, or heads will roll at the hotel and I do not want to start an incident. The music truly is “Killing Me Softly”.
Sounds like the kind of music they play in a cheap strip mall chinese restaurant, you know, the kind with backlit nature scenes
ReplyDeleteWe just died laughing at this! Can't wait to get you a pan flute....you should become pretty good at it in 2 years!! Love that blog!
ReplyDeleteOn our honeymoon in Morocco we kept hearing this tune everywhere we go. Twanging away, over and over again. It was in hotels, lifts/elevators, shops and kept nagging my wife and I what it was.
ReplyDeleteOn the last day we got it: it was an Arabic remake of Hotel California, from the Eagles. The twanging part were the verses of the song "you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave".
Consequently that song's interpretation has never left me, either.