MONSTERS by The Boy Least Likely to

It’s not that I think I’m a very important person in the world, I don’t. In fact in the big picture, I am quite aware of how insignificant and small I am compared to a lot of other things; but what I do know is that I am rather different from most of the people around me. I do not say this in arrogance or pride. It’s just a feeling that I get after going through life so far.

My thoughts, feelings, ideas and things I believe in tend to be different compared to the majority of the society that I live in. There are times where I wonder if I should change myself and become one of those people whom society accepts. But whenever I listen to Monsters By The Boy Least Likely To, I realise that there are quite a few people who are like me. People who do not see eye to eye with what the rest of the world things is the correct way to live life.

Getting a boyfriend because my age is right, or because that’s what every one else is doing. Having a proper job or degree. Work for a few years, then get married, having babies. This is exactly what society wants from each and every one of us. It’s not that I don’t want a boyfriend, or don’t want to get married or don’t want to have children. Maybe I will get married, maybe I won’t. Maybe I’ll have children, maybe I won’t. But the thing is I want to do those things not cause society expects that of me, but because I want to.

The tune for Monsters is so simple and light hearted, but it’s an irony because the lyrics in this song is far from simple. It’s about how people around you, people you actually love, your friends, relatives, cousins etc etc, suddenly thinks that just because they are happy doing what society expects of them, you would be happy doing the same things too.

And I don’t even know why
It is it scares me
But it does
And the thing that really frightens me
Is that the people I used to love

Are turning into monsters
Getting married having babies
Telling me how great their life is
And how happy I would be if I could
Just be more like them

There is a great joy in knowing a band that extremely few people know (at least in Singapore that is). It makes me feel special, as if only certain kinds of people can understand and appreciate this band, this song. This song especially – makes me very special because I can understand the true message behind this simple, yet impacting song.