Mixtape

I usually title my blog thru song name recently, but this title pop up in my mind. So let me tell you what is all about.

Most of 90's born kids may not even know whats is mixtape even means. I'm gonna let you guys know what is mixtape and what surrounds that era. 

How do you like to listen to your music? iPod and mp3’s? CD? Mobile streaming sites like Pandora or Last FM? Or how about something more analog? Like vinyls or even…. cassette tapes?

Cassette tapes gained popularity in the 1980s when they allowed music to become portable. No longer did people have to use phonographs for their musical entertainment purposes. They were wildly popular with the launch of the Sony Walkman, one of the most successful consumer products of all time. I can remember tape players being sold until the early 2000’s once the revolutionary Napster, iPods, and iTunes came around and digitized today’s music industry

Now that's not I wanna talk about, that was just an intro. What I really wanna talk about is when I was in teen age, there was this trends. Which I simply like to call it mix tape love. You

see when we age of 13-19  in school some even dun have puberty yet, are obviously they don't have guts to tell they love to the girl. Then came a trend of teenagers making mix tape and sent that to a girl. These are not necessarily a love confession, it can be a gift of appreciation to a good friend  but then again half of them express their feelings thru it. What will we do was we make a tape in 2 ways,either to record all love songs(not so common) or record song that you particularly like. And give this to them(girls). This is step to make them know our song preferences, this allow them to know which kinda person we are. For example if its alot of rap song, from there they'll know he is the skater boy(that's me), if the tape mixed by grunge songs, they'll know that they are confident boys, if they they hear tape with sad rock songs, this means they are somehow heart broken kids, if they hear love songs all the way,that means poor boys needs love so bad. When a girls received a mix tape they will

be in awe coz its a mix tape, that boy giving his personal collection of song to her. The girls will know that they meant something to that guy. Here's the catch mostly girls will not like the boys song. Girl's listen to the conventional song in radio's, mostly. Sometime to appreciate about teenage girl's in 90's is, they will llisten to that mix tape over n over again. It doesn't matter they don't like it. Some says, "its too noisy","make me sleepy","is this what u call a song","I can't understand a word", "there is too much vulgar words", n much much more, but they will not stop listening to it. When the boys ask "then why are you listening to it". They'll reply by saying "Its becoz u gave it to me." That appreciation is so pure and so rare nowadays. Nowadays people don't value relationship like that anymore. These girls kept listening to those songs and know you what after sometime they like whats inside that mixtape. Its so beautiful thats all I can say.

 Oh ya, I almost forget some girls will return the favour by making their mixtape. Now its the guys torture start, take me for example, Here I am listening to rap songs and comes a mix tape of Truly madly deeply by Savage Garden. "Euuuu, what kinda song is this girl?" That was what went thru my mind for the first time I heard that song but if you ask me now, Truly madly deeply is one of my favourite song. When a girl made a mixtape for a boy we really cherish it. We kept listening till the tape breaks. Whats is so awesome is on tape there will be sticker where you should write the band
name and the

album, but what we will write was "specially for you by someone you know". Something like that. Thats so cool and awesome. Kids those days dunno what is sex. What I meant is they knew what sex is all about, but they dun dare to try it, at least not by majorities. So when they look at a girl they don't see targets, they see friendships or love at the first sight. Hence these small things means alot to us. The sweetness of a relationship was fully explored by us. Perhaps thats why we care for every friends of ours. We are people who cares a lot. Not only to female, even to male friends. Guys will call another guy to ask how everything going on. If you mention that now, people will say that is some gay shits, but its not believe me.

I remember to have a female friends in a different class, she was taking civil, I was in electrical and electronics. I use to skip a period n go sit beside her. It took the teacher six months or so to know that I was not belong at that class. You what I do sit beside her, nothing, listen to what teacher is teaching. Ya we talk, obviously, every time She has the english period she will search for me, I will smile when I see her eyes is gazing for me, She would smile back, I would say "hey babe" she might say "I thought you were not coming." The question is why she is so special, did I love her? The answer is No. But why I kept going to her class, coz i like hanging out with her. She was my exact opposite. We had nothing in common interest, whatever I liked,she hated and vise versa. As simple as that was the reason to like her. 

Enough with my story. I'm not saying all kids in nowadays  is bad, or all kids in my time was good. Value of friendship,respect,caringness is surely decreased a lot these days. I would like that to change.I wish people care more for each other.

Coming back to my topic

These we in 90's, I kid you not we had so many type of people, skaterz, skinhead, punk heads,black metals,chicanos and even nazi's, can you believe we had nazi's in Malaysia. No matter, Its all good. We were learning rite.

Skaterz had one troubling rule- No girlfriend. This is hard man, we have to secretly keep our so
called love affairs. Kantoi mampus. It would becomes worst for those who is in love with skater girls. Yup we do have skater girls but not as many as in punk heads n skinheads. "not all girls like rough sport you see."

We would wear the infomous flowered shirt(batik bunga). Baggy pants, walk limping like as if we were having short legged at some point. We have our own hand hand shakes. It it kept changing. But the most famous was the one that all poser do nowadays, Poser is the name was given to people who dress up like a skater boy, but they never own a skateboard. We were groups that cost least prob, coz we don't fight much or do any things that juvenile sort. 

Skinheads simple enough just bold your head,boots, white shirt. Punk head, u must have a hair like you were electrocuted. Terpacak sana sini. These two groups normally anak org kaya, awek cun cun, also kaya. Coz their clothing is very expensive.

Ok I've bored you people enough. Thats was a glimpse of my teenagehood. I just felt like wanted to share. I had a very colourful teenage life. We had so many originalities. Enjoy your life people. Enjoy it to the max.

 P.S. Make you own version of MIXTAPE, share your love & friendship.