A CUT TO TRUST

A CUT TOO TRUST

 

There comes a point when you find yourself sitting in a salon waiting for a haircut. Even if you use a regular one you’re placing a large amount of trust in someone who is able to take a rather large number of sharp items extremely close to your neck. So it was that during the week there came a time when the dreaded chop approached.

 

There is a universal fact that every salon or grooming room will have some form of music playing to ‘ease’ guests waiting and to build a sense of ‘ambient’ atmosphere to calm your nerves whilst someone goes to town on your hair. Generally it is a current radio hit, that is until you sit in the chair and the music changes to a pumping dance number filling you with unexplained dread. One such number being ‘Eat Sleep Rave Repeat’ which began as the claustrophobic chair was taken. A classic and simple philosophy mixed by the great Fatboy Slim, remixed by many others since, and still found in any club worth its salt on any dance night. If it doesn’t make you chuck out a few dance moves then nothing really will.

 

 

Of itself most people would grin and bear it until, that is, the hair groomer starts chucking out shapes with two large pairs of scissors extremely close to your hair, neck and eyes. In effect you’re a prisoner to the whims of a whirling dervish who’s decided the best way to cut your hair is to dance like everyone’s watching and it’s the only way ‘he can get in the zone’.

 

So quietly you sit there hoping that ‘the zone’ is the best place for him to be whilst you’re in anything but your zone. Whilst flashes of silver and tattoos dominate your peripheral vision and thoughts of bad hair days dominate your mind you can often be saved by a change of mood and so it is with music when the chips or in this case the locks are down Los Lobos with ‘La Bamba’ saved the day.

 

 

Not to everyone’s taste as the hair dresser pointedly made clear, it is a song that has stood the test of time. Its simplicity is perhaps its best asset, that and its upbeat rhythm speak volumes about the band and the song itself. Perhaps it’s the connection to Ritchie Vallens that makes the song so popular but in real terms it is that fact that like all good things in life it’s there when you need it and as a result of its random appearance the barnet was saved!!!!

 

That doesn’t mean that music will always be there to save you in times of crisis but it does help you get through them. As the hairdresser explained for him the one song that always helped him through was ‘Everybody Hurts’ by REM. Another classic again built on a simple structure and lyrics that make it plain that we all go through struggles and hurt in life. Its message of togetherness and shared knowledge that we are never alone is universal.

 

So for all of you going through something small or big just remember you’re never truly alone somewhere there is a song that will get you through it and this is for you all.