Slow Hysteria..Sex and The City Theme By Groove Armada

Sex and the city theme! and you think of that uplifting sexy tune that starts off right when the show begins however the producers chose another song to represent the show as its THEME. This theme that im talking about was meant for a soundtrack release with other hit songs that go with the 'theme' of the show. Naturally these songs were used during the episodes of the first few seasons when this CD came out, each one as funky as the rest, each with a meaning. Yet when it all boils down to that one song that takes the cake it has to be the theme created by house music legends Groove Armada. This song is a slow, sensual, drunken kind of song, how do i even explain it? its a mix of everything, its really like a feeling in itself. Can I just say how many nights i have spent listening to this slow haunting and hangover'esque song, till today i get transported back to random moments in my life the past two years. Every vision is murky and mysterious yet i know it so very well, i end up getting goosebumps, i want those days back so badly despite detesting the notion of it. How funny is music, it carries you to such familiar territories. When you get there you realize as familiar as these places seem they are now just vivid memories, embalmed in the back of your head, triggered by this sound that played then. My friend Rudra once told me that this song is very 'metropolitan', it made no sense really but it also meant so much more than just that one word. This song is a city in itself...its the struggles, the confusions, the heart-aches, the constant madness, the run.

Im hearing this as i type and i feel a sudden rush of memories. Theyre like water when a tube bursts. I see so much and its comforting but also frightening, i dont want to remember. If i remember too much i will be pained and if it goes on i might want it all over again. I can see my friends all over the place, a variety of songs including this theme song. We're so sure of ourselves, we believe we have it all, if someone said we were delusional, they'd be idiots to think so. I swear i couldve imagined it would've lasted forever. J calls up and says is nearby somewhere, i'm young and unbridled, i leave and go where i should. Its 7am, it doesnt matter whether the others have just started their day, mine's still not over yet. J is all i want and those days were smoky, they were slow and they were dreamy. Even then i'd play this song and think of it like langauge to my thoughts and now when i play it, i can revisit those days. As we go ahead in time certain fragments of the past get less tormenting, approaching them becomes easier and it becomes a sweet kind of pain to envision those times. A few months back i wouldnt play this song because it would just take me back to places i didnt wanna see, to thoughts i was trying to avoid. Now its different, and the song lives on forever. I wonder if 5 years down the line the same will happen when i play this song. Is it true that sometimes when you love something so much that it becomes entrenched in that very moment? and everytime your around it it takes you back to that very moment. So surreal, im feeling this sort of sadness as i type cuz i miss those days and yet im so glad theyre done with.

Somehow i'm addicted to Groove Armada's theme right now. I was watching one of the re-runs of this amazing show and it came on and back when i saw this episode i didnt know of this song. Today when it started playing it felt so APT! They played it right when Carrie was talking about her fulfilling relationship with Aiden yet she was getting plagued by the memory of the previous night when she slept with BIG. She cheated on this lovely guy and now she is in this dilemma and its so NEW YORK, so hungover, so confused, such slow hysteria...

I love this song! Hear it!