It doesn't happen often.
You feel down, you feel lonely, you feel terrible. The world is against you, and nothing goes your way. Out of money, out of people to talk to, out of touch with anything positive.
And then you here this one song. You've never heard it before, you only hearit for a few seconds in a TV add, on the radio, in a creperie, at the supermarket, from a car driving back.
This one song that somehow manages to magically lift your mood, makes everything seem ok, makes you want to hummmmmm, sing and whistle to it, dance to it even if you don't like dancing. A mood-lifter. A miracle.
It's happened to me twice. The first time it was Norah Jones, with "Don't know why". First time I was listening to Norah. I was on holiday, feeling ok but quite melancholic, waiting in a creperie. And then the song starts playing on the shop's CD player, and I ended up staying there until the CD was over.
This time, it's Feist's "1234". I have not the words to describe how good it makes me feel. Thank you Apple for using it in a TV add (new iPod Nano, by the way). Thank you Feist. Enjoy.
