Pride

I don't mean just Pride in general. I mean that feeling that you get when your off doing whatever and then out of the blue you hear a song you love.

Now if you just listen to the normal radio you won't know what I'm talking about. Your favorite songs probably play all the time no matter where you are or what your doing. They're in movies, tv, playing in stores, cars, and pretty much anywhere you can think if.

I mean if your a big Radiohead fan for example (Which I am) and your sitting on the computer playing Sims while your sister watches a movie that your only half paying attention to and suddenly your ears hear Radiohead. Your attention snaps to the movie and you listen, maybe even mutter to your sister 'Hey, this is Radiohead'.

A sense of pride comes over you then. Not for knowing the song really, nowadays all people need is the Internet and they automatically know everything.

This isn't a song people play everyday so you don't find it popular. So when you do hear this you feel pride in the band for, maybe only for a moment, getting a chance at the rest of us. For just a couple seconds in Something Borrowed, people knew Radiohead.

That's not to say if the band suddenly is popular your ecstatic for them. *cough* Foster The People *cough*

It's because of your pride in this band that you've almost staked a claim on them. This was YOUR favorite band. It can't be everyone else's too. After all, where were they when this band was just a couple of guys trying to make a living? Where were they when they let a basic cable Syfy show borrow the rights? (Pumped up Kicks was played on the episode Vendetta of Season 2 of Warehouse 13, a week later they released the song) After all they think the song is a month old.

There's a bit of pride when it comes to our taste in music. Alright. A lot. Hearing the first few bars of a song we never hear can make our day.

Maybe it's just me. But keep that in mind next time you go 'Hey, I know this song'