Friday, 11 December 2015

WHAT ARE YOU WATCHING?

Twitter keeps sending emails asking me what I'm watching. You might have got them too; they sound a bit like your grandma walking in to find you in front of the TV when The Fifth Element is on.

"Matthew Stubbs, what are you watching?"

Well Twitter, this morning I was watching an arrangement of Silent Night to the backing of Gymnopedie No. 1 by Satie played by a string quartet and a flute.

It made me realise how important it is to have a musical idea and stick with it. Combining these two things seemed like trying to convey a crisp nativity night with a miserable walk in the rain. Musically it worked really well; thematically, it was just awful.

What Twitter really wants me to do of course, is to watch things it thinks I might be interested in...

One Direction belting their little hearts out, a Game of Thrones promo and a baby singing along to an Adele remix.

You know I'm not sure Twitter really knows me as much as it thinks it does.

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