On food shows, it’s usually a host traveling around trying different food.
But after we’ve watched the back story on where the food came from, the back story on the master chef, watched the master chef measure out the ingredients, prepare the food, cook the food, put the food on display and bring it out to the host.
This is the moment.
When the host tries the food.
They try it…and….wait for it….”Woah that is amazing!”
Really? All this build up for “Woah that is amazing”?
The reaction of the host is always a let down when they actually eat the food.
The truth is, there is no reaction big enough or sincere enough to make that moment good TV. What is the host suppose to do? “Wow, that was SOOO good, no no, that was INSANELY good, no no, I really really LOVE that food!!!”
Why is this? Because the joy that food brings is internal. Very hard to express through words in a unique way.
Same thing in music.
The only reaction I’ve ever deemed “enough” for when I show someone a song I love or play one of my own is absolute, boo-hoo weeping. Non stop crying because they love it so much and can’t even handle it.
Anything less than that and I don’t believe they really understand.
(btw, that reaction has never happened)
The joy that comes from music is meant for the inside. It speaks to the parts of us that can’t be put into words. It hits us in places that can’t be ID’d.
So next time you play someone your song or make them a meal, it’s not about what they say afterwards but how they FEEL inside.
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