In October of 1996, I was bored, kinda lonely, and looking for someone to relate to in the world of Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Zachary Ty Bryan, Devon Sawa, and so on. None of them ever really did appeal to me. They all seemed kind of "blah" like they were just there to fill up space. I have nothing against them, honest. It's just that there was something about them that I couldn't connect with. Something was missing.
One night, in that strange, isolated October, where I was still recovering from the trauma of sexual harassment from a large group of boys who were all friends with each other, I said a prayer. It was a prayer for someone out there to come out and about. A musician, a band, but above all, they would have to be around my age. I wanted someone to relate to. Someone I could find things in common with. Since I had moved to Lancaster, PA in third grade, I had always had trouble making and keeping friends for along time because one of them would move away or never keep in touch over the summer, or I would be exploited by others for their own selfish purposes. One example would be this one kid I knew who would only hang with me to play video games or swim in the pool. I was of course oblivious to that until a while later. But enough with my sorry life back to the subject at hand. So I said a prayer for a someone to come out and specifically wanted them to be a musician.
A few months later, "Mmmbop" came out. When I first heard it, I thought that they were another Swedish vocal group with two boys and a girl singing. "Oh, this sounds nice," I remember thinking in my room while I was drawing. "I think that'll be the next number one song." I thought it was pretty cool, and I hardly ever watched VH1 or MTV (considering I wasn't allowed to watch MTV when I was 13). After a while of hearing "Mmmbop," I started to see the "female" singer as a version of a young Jackson 5 Michael Jackson wiht the big 'fro singing away. All in all I thought I was pretty cool. I liked the music, never seeing the musicians. Finally, after several months, I heard some kind of contreversy over them. Sometimes I would get the name mixed up like "Hanson" and "Handsome" (go fig), but I WAS SURPRISED to hear that the band was made up of three brothers! I was like "Really? Naw!" But as soon as I saw them, I was like "Someone my age..." Their music was expressive. An element that I had not heard in the music unless I listened to oldies music like the Beatles. ~Since then, I've been hooked, and happy I am. I've always wanted to know who they were, what they were like since day one. Even if they were not famous, I would still want to know them, on a basis of a firend-friend kind of thing. Something that I felt I never had. *then came the teenie shit but that lasted a until January of 1998*
During their "break", the pop music went down the potty you can say. Fabricated pop groups popped up faster than weeds in a garden, and music became kind of "blah," squared. Now don't get me wrong. I liked Fastball, Aerosmith's stuff, and a few others that came along. They had feeling, but the ones that were directed towards my age group of that time were just bland and dry. There was no color or flavor in their songs. At that time, I also fell in love with the music of Jonny Lang. He was amazing. Today I have both his CDS. I was also wondering where Blues Traveler was because I had not heard their music in a long time. ~Stupid top 40 DJs. That's why at present day, I listen to Oldies or my cds now. :) But what was really ignorant of one DJ was in '98 that he decided that he would "ban playing hanson," and totally disrespect his listeners. Then he would turn around and promote a contest, and he would count how many days his show had gone "hanson free." What an ignorant person.
Now at present day, some DJs are still obnoxious like that still. Heck~I've been hung up on by a DJ or two because I'd request them. There was one DJ on 98.5 WYCR who was awesome. He had Isaac on his show once I know but I missed 'coz I was at the beach and got home the day of their Hershey concert, but Captain Connors (I loved his show! He was the best DJ in all of central Pennsylvania! I miss him on the radio now) was like "Can you change 'Where's the Love' to 'Spread the love'?" That was the DJ's prase. He was cool, and he showed respect towards every musician that he played. He was great, and I admired him for that. It takes a lot of nerve to do that.
Okay, now up to the year 2000. I came arcoss an obscure little Hanson fan club called "Hanson" on ecircles.com that shut down in April 15, 2001 due to the stock market. Anyhow, I met a lot of Hanson fans like me, and some not. I was the craziest of the group, I have to admit. I lightly mocked and joked about everything imaginable about Hanson. It was to remind me about how human they are, and that they aren't the picture-perfect people like people often idealize them to be. It doesn't matter if they get a girlfriend. They're human. They're allowed to have feelings for other people. I hold nothing against that. To be a fan of theirs is to love the music, not the faces.
As soon as "This Time Around" came out, and I had listened to it, I was like "It was well wroth the wait." Why? Well, listening to their matured style was very refreshing to me and it was good. I enjoy good music or entertainment similar to how a person would enjoy an incredibly good meal. Where you just have this feeling of full satisfaction, enjoying what you were given. And I still have found one thing consistant with their music not mattering weither it's happy or sad. : It's always refreshing.
I have finally decided to make this page now because I think there's some people who would enjoy a little bit of silliness, observations, thoughts, comments, and someone just showing their views on the band, not just going with the grind all the time, showing the same info with the same format, with the same everything, pretty much! I love throwing my personality into everything I do, and I want to show people that the world's not as bad as we all think it is. We gotta see the forest for the trees, because sometimes we forget to do that, and focus on the little things in life, and don't enjoy it for what it is or what you can find in common with evey one. For example, I have noticed that I have the energy of Zac (when I'm hyper), the goofiness of Isaac, and the sarcasm of Taylor. I'm also told that I'm an incredibly nice person, which I don't really see, but whatever. (I've sent one friend $20 in US dollars worth of Jelpens to one of my friends in Canada, and sent over half of my drawings to them, too, but that's me just being me. I enjoy doing things for others)
Anyway, The title "Greentea and Motzart" came to me while working on a batik while drinking Greentean and listening to Motzart to help me focus. In life I have learned that you have to do what you love to do, don't worry about what people think of you because will they matter in the end?, and never forget to smile and be happy with who you are.