Ms. Jones isn't maybe a truly original song. Well at least partially 'original', definitely. To the extent that anything is when there's millions of songs.

My dad bought about 100 VHS Indian movies about 25 years ago, at least. I found two porn movies hiding on one long ago. More than 20 years ago I watched The Devil and Ms. Jones and some other movie. I'm not so much for porn. Usually they ruin the very idea of sex; going off in ugly directions and/or having no passion anyway. The Devil and Ms. Jones was just not a turn on, no thanks. Ugh. But the opening scene where she realizes she's dead had a certain something to it. And the end scene where she's in hell was good. (Neither was sexual). In between there was this one song I really liked and I remembered some version that I suspect I mostly made up on my own over the years. But now I'm curious if it's even anything at all like the original song that inspired it. Maybe it's very similar. Maybe hardly similar at all.

I have another song that I played on my walkman as a kid delivering newspapers. I thought for sure it was by Jan Hammer or in some way related to Miami Vice. But I searched and searched and can't find it. I think I went through every song related to either...? Was surprised at how cheesy Jan Hammer's stuff sounds now, extremely dated.

But this floats in my head 2 to 6 times a year. Usually when very tired. I've been trying to recreate it in Reaper. In my head it sounds beautiful. When it's turned into midi notes somehow it's too simple... In my head it keeps it's mystery. In a sequencer it's been too, I don't know, revealed. I don't know why that makes it less interesting though really.

It is like saying that love is just such and such chemicals in your brain. One can go along that way and indeed ruin love. Or one can show the underlying 2^2, 2^3, etc of so much music and really hurt it to.

But of course we're chemicals. Or course numbers can be used to describe the world. So what? That hardly should make it lose it's mystery, it's 'magic'. Hardly should make it less interesting...