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| Baby, I'm a little bit amazed |
Last night I was in the kitchen
making dinner and listening to music on my iPod, on shuffle as usual. While the
stew was simmering, I read the latest film reviews in the Washington Post. In
the review of the new Queen Latifah/Dolly Parton feel-God vehicle Joyful
Noise, I read the following sentence: “And to ease in non-believers (or those
apathetic toward religious ditties), many of the early ballads – Michael Jackson’s Man In The Mirror and Maybe I’m Amazed by Paul McCartney – are
crowd-pleasers.”
When I read that sentence, the
song playing on my iPod was Maybe I’m Amazed by Paul McCartney. As there are
over 21,000 songs on my iPod, that was quite a ‘Ha!’ moment.
I know a few people who would immediately
read more into it than just pure coincidence. A sign of something. Unlike the thousands of other times when I’ve heard a
song on my iPod and haven’t come across a mention of that song in whatever I
was reading at the same time. Or the several dozen times I’ve heard Maybe I’m
Amazed in my life, but wasn’t reading a newspaper article that mentioned the
song at the exact same moment.
