There’s nothing like traditional Hawaiian music for expressing flowery love. The emotional impact of the words is stronger than English, the sentiments more tender.
`Auhea iho nei o Leialoha
Ku`u hoa i ka nani a`o nâ pua
Eia mai au `o suipa lilo
Ka ipo i ke aka pua aniani
He aniani wale `o hâli`a loko
Nowelo mao `ole i ka pu`uwai
Nâ wai nô `oe e a pakele aku
I ka wai o ka pânini pua kea
Ha`ina `ia mai ana ka puana
Ku`u ipo i ka nani a`o nâ pua
John Almeida wrote those words, and their poetry is just haunting.
I get earworms a lot. Music stuck in my head that won’t come out, lasting days or weeks. Usually it means that I listen to the song over and over to try to get it out of my head, and generally obsess over the music. Recently, as you may have noticed, it’s been Mon Amant de St-Jean. This has been overtaken now by the Very Potter Musical. I’ve been singing it around the house a lot, and seeing Half-Blood Prince Tuesday night kept making VPM references pop into my head (“My dad that’s dead, my father’s dead, I have a dead father.”). My kids are starting to request their favorites, usually Ginny’s Song. “Sing the guinea pig again!” and then they laugh and say “You want to bring me to Canada?”
Apparently a soundtrack is going to be available soon, so I can listen to the songs without playing the entire video on my iPod, which will be fun, although I love watching the whole thing over and over. And I’ll be singing along in the kitchen going “Haaaaaaaaaarry!” haha.
My favorite new Helm song, it’s actually a French folk song from WWII. This is the version Helm uses:
Je ne sais pourquoi j’allais danser
A Saint-Jean, au musette,
Mais quand un gars m’a pris un baiser,
J’ai frissonné, j’étais chipée
{Refrain:}
Comment ne pas perdre la tête,
Serrée par des bras audacieux
Car l’on croit toujours
Aux doux mots d’amour
Quand ils sont dits avec les yeux,
Moi qui l’aimais tant
Je le trouvais le plus beau de Saint-Jean,
Je restais grisée
Sans volonté
Sous ses baisers
Sans plus réfléchir, je lui donnais
Le meilleur de mon être
Beau parleur, chaque fois qu’il mentait,
Je le savais mais je l’aimais
{au Refrain}
Mais hélas, à Saint-Jean comme ailleurs
Un serment n’est qu’un leurre
J’étais folle de croire au bonheur
Et de vouloir garder son cœur
Comment ne pas perdre la tête,
Serrée par des bras audacieux
Car l’on croit toujours
Aux doux mots d’amour
Quand ils sont dits avec les yeux,
Moi qui l’aimais tant,
Mon bel amour, mon amant de Saint-Jean,
Il ne m’aime plus
C’est du passé
N’en parlons plus
Amazingly hilarious production up on YouTube called A Very Potter Musical. I watched the entire thing this afternoon, laughing my head off. It’s so hilarious. Adore the guy who plays Harry, he’s cute and has a great voice. Their Ginny was far more annoying than I see her, but it was funny. Ron was great with his snacks. Hermione was funny too, and had a nice voice. Voldemort was hilarious and – once he was off Quirrell’s back – sexy as well.
My personal highlights:
Voldemort tap-dancing – and motorboating Bellatrix
Drunk Voldemort
The Death Eater chorus line
Harry talking about how awesome he is
Ron’s giant chocolate bar
The Ron/Hermione kiss, if you can call it that
Draco rolling around randomly on the floor
Goyle’s voice, and the Indian Burn Hex
Dumbledore’s twanging accent
Voldy and Quirrell’s bromance
Texan Cho Chang
Cedric “find” Diggory
Molly Weasley’s brief and extremely New Jersey appearance
The music was excellent. Sound quality’s not great, I had a hard time hearing some dialogue while music was painfully loud. I wish I had this on DVD, I would watch it far too often.
Here’s the playlist. If you have trouble with it in the embedded player, click here.
