One Of My Favourite Bands Changed Its Name
And it struck a chord
It struck a chord I didn’t know was in me.
The thing is, I kept thinking about it. I was continuously hitting replay on the band’s new song, under a new name, just to grasp the difference that this new identity will bring to their music. This obsessive action proved their importance to me, one I didn’t even realize was so big. Maybe they made the right move after all.
Through this obsession, I learned the meaning behind their original name, something I never bothered to look into before. How the band formed and why they decided it’s time to go on a new path. Just like that, I got to see them as entirely new musicians, even if their music has been on my playlists constantly for the past few years. Needless to say, my appreciation for them and their music only grew.
Change Shouldn't Shock Us
This transformation proved something else to me. Something that made itself very clear to me this past year.
After my breakup, during the lockdown last spring, I made a vow that a change is the only reasonable get away from anything. Or to anything. Change is life. Or better said, change is the oxygen of our life.
However, as soon as my grieving process was over, the statement I repeated to myself so many times, sort of vanished. The thing I was so sure of in the moment of despair when I needed to see the light in any shape or form, lost its importance. I found the new self that I was satisfied to live with, and the need for change went away with this discovery.
When we are all right, we get settled into our lives as they are. It’s hard to move from there. Even if we are increasingly fine instead of excited, sad, joyful, heartbroken, enraptured, you know, alive, it’s hard to move in a different direction. To make a change to our stagnant living.
Last year after seeing how this great sadness in my life also turned me into a person that was feeling more alive than ever, I vowed that from then on, I will always seek change.
It is so much easier to make a vow than to do something about your life when you don’t have to. Maybe you need to change the name of your band to adjust your music to what you really feel inside. And maybe, the brave move of these marvellous musicians brought me the much-needed awareness and reminder that change is a good thing, that I should seek and create it rather than run from it. Simply adjusting the tune to a different me, the one already residing inside.
You can listen to the new song here.
