3.13.2008

A Song About Periods

A few weeks ago several of my coworkers and myself went to karaoke to celebrate two of their bday. I meant to write about this at that time, but I was too lazy. Procrastination for the win!

Anyways, the party was around dinner time, and this particular karaoke place in Taipei had all you can eat buffet. There was also a counter where you can order gourmet dishes such as BBQ duck burritos. A colleague along with myself went over to the counter and told the chef, two of everything they got. "Two of everything?" asked the chef. "Two of everything", we replied.

Of course we could not finish all the food, and we had booze...so one thing led to another there was a mini food fight. All normal routines.

Now there is one VERY amusing (I dunno if this is a good description, you decide after you read it) story. My colleague, the bday boy, a semi-metro-sexual male, picked this song to sing titled.... in English... "I'm Menstruating".

I shit you not.

The song described the physical and emotional struggle of a woman going through her period. My jaw dropped as Mr. bday boy gave his emotional rendition of the song, meanwhile other people just sat there listened while chewing their food. One girl asked, "who's the singer, I've never heard of the song before..." *chew* *chew* *chew* *gobble* *gobble* YUM'

Apparently, I was the only that found the song... weird, to put it mildly.

The music video was a whole other thing, you have NO IDEA. It featured the singer, who is a skinny tall modelesque woman in her twenties, strolling along in the city. She was wearing this REALLY puffy satin skirt, with red blotches...

I shit you not.

Now I am not familiar with female hygienic products, but I do believe there is a such thing called TAMPONS.

So this woman in the music video, is just minding her own business in the city, riding a cab while looking out the window deep in her own thoughts... Then all of a sudden....a little girl around 7 or 8 appeared behind her! This girl, was wearing a plain white dress, with a tiara decorated with red feathers O_O.

Now I am not a sex education teacher but I did pass all of my sex education courses. So I am PRETTY sure that when a woman is menstruating, she's in a biological stage that's the exact opposite of GIVING BIRTH.

And the thing that really got me was, it wasn't a comedic song like Weird Al's... This 'I'm Menstruating' song is a legit honest song, describing the physical and emotional struggle of a woman going through her period. I went on youtube and was trying to look for it so I can put it on here, but i made one of the biggest mistake of my life by typing in 'I'm Menstruating' in the search field and hit 'search'.

On a unrelated story, I just got back from a sucky business trip from China last week, and over the weekend I had a stomach flu with fever. It really really sucked to be constipated in one hour and then had diarrhea in the next. Maybe I should write a song describing the physical and emotional struggle of me going through my stomach flu, called 'I'm Constipating'.

Now THAT'S a song!