Someone asked me ‘what do you want to do with whistling’. After a little thought I answered ‘I want to make whistling cool again’.
I feel like there was a time when whistling was cool. Not sure when this was exactly, bur I feel like it was the case, and since then it has become somehow dorky, or a comedy thing. Monkey-Fez I described it as in a previous blog.
What I would like to do is be the go to person for any whistling in contemporary songs. It seems like Geert and other previous whistling people always seem to whistle with an orchestra or classical group. I think that there is scope for popular music which will bring it back to a younger audience.
Scorpions ‘winds of change’ and Guns & Roses “Patience” use whistling well in a cool way – which is the direction that resonates with me most. Peter, Bjorn and John (Swedish group) had a hit song“Young Folks”, which has a whistling bit in it, but it wasn’t executed well. The whistling quality wasn’t what it could have been… in that case it would have been good to be the ‘go to’ person to record that.
So not sure how I will go about making whistling cool again, but at least that is the objective…
In my book you deserved to win last week. I have never heard anything like the Stairway to Heaven and one day I hope you will post it on UTube! See you soon in the UK.