Never out of love for Air Supply

(At the climb gym)

Frou: *putting on climb shoes* Erm…
Toe: What?
Frou: *playing with ropes* I don’t know how to say it….
Toe: What??
Frou: I am actually thinking of….
Toe: Of what?
Frou: Going to Air Supply concert! I figure no one will come with me, so I’m planning to go alone.
Toe: Oh my gawd! I have been looking for someone to go with me too!!!
Frou & Toe: *squeals of delight*


We squealed for a good 20 minutes, by the way. It was such a refreshing discovery that we are both into the same alibaba duo from the 70s who refuses to retire. Even more interesting is the fact that there are alibaba aunties below the age of 50 out there *points at ownself and the Toe* who will pay good money (S$78) to throw Bridget Jones granny underwear at Russell Hitchcock and Graham Russell. Woot!

We confess that we sometimes blast Air Supply from our car stereo and tire ourselves by screaming alongside Graham (or was it Russell who does the high pitch screaming?) while cruising down the highway. Toe’s favourite song to sing in the car is Making Love Out of Nothing At All. She says it is very dynamic especially the rousing chorus part where Graham started screaming at the top of his lungs like he was going to die of a heartbreak. It sounds like Meat Loaf’s I will do anything for love where everything gets very “gan cheong” (Cantonese: agitated) and then it dies off at the end. Apparently it invokes and arouse feelings in the Toe she never knew she had. (The Toe doesn’t know the lyrics so everytime she tries to sing it, she just go ‘La la la la” very fast and very excitedly.)

Trivial fact: Making Love Out of Nothing At All is actually written by the same guy who wrote all of Meat Loaf’s hits. Apparently this song was offered to Meat Loaf first but the deal didn’t go through so it ended up with Air Supply. Same with “The Total Eclipse of The Heart” which was offered to Meatloaf but went to Bonnie Tyler in the end.

To be honest, I have heard the song a kezillion times but I still don’t get what it means. It seems that the dude in the song knows how to do most things (e.g. how to whisper, cry, find the answers, lie, fake it, scheme, face the truth, dream, touch you, prove, when to pull you closer, when to let you loose etc.) but he just doesn’t know how to ‘make love out of nothing at all’. (Is he talking about jerking off?) It’s exactly like Meatloaf’s ‘I will do anything for love, but I won’t do that.’ (What’s ‘that’???)

The Frou’s favourite Air Supply song is Here I am. It is this lame and extremely soppy song about how one cannot get over one’s past love because those memories keep crashing through and it is just no good without you because I’ve done everything I can to ease the pain but only you can stop the rain. It is ironic because I, being the unemotional Chinese girl as The Queen often calls me, very rarely feel bad or think about past relationships but only Air Supply is capable of bringing such remote feelings out of me.

The Frou and Toe’s collective favourite Air Supply song is Two Less Lonely People In The World. Such a lovely song that commemorates any kind of relationships between two persons– friends, lovers or otherwise. It's about the power of two, in all alibabaness, can make life less miserable - “In my life where everything was wrong, something finally went right and now there’s 2 less lonely people in the world.. tonight.’ (In our case, we sing it all the time because we are social outcasts hence found the song very comforting!)

Since we are discussing sad facts here, I might as well admit that the last concert I went to was….*hahaha*.... also Air Supply(!) That was two years ago when they were last here in Singapore. *hehehe*. Well, I have this thing about going concerts only when I know every song that will be sung by the band. In fact, I will do my homework and memorise lyrics! I love sing-alongs! I hate being bored.

Anyway, it is a one night only concert this year. Happening next Friday. Toe and I plan to have a drinking fest before the concert. We will be well drunk before it starts. It will be such a riot! :P