Pasangan Umumkan Putus Hubungan melalui YouTube
Couple Announce Their Split by YouTube
Editor : Ismail Gani
Translator : Parulian Manalu
MUSIK memiliki kemampuan sebagai pelipur lara dan menenangkan jiwa, tapi untuk pasangan muda ini, musik mengungkap alasan kenapa mereka harus berpisah.
Pasangan muda dari Brooklyn, memasang video ke YouTube yang merinci keputusan mereka untuk berpisah, mengungkap keluhan mereka terhadap satu sama lain.
Jawaban dari keputusan berpisah itu sangat sederhana seperti ketukan 4/4: Jonathan Mann, 30, ingin memiliki anak dan mantan pacarnya, Ivory King, 31, menolak.
Pasangan yang bermukim di kawasan Williamsburg di Brooklyn ini mengungkap posting musik video menjadi cara termudah untuk menghilangkan rasa sakit dengan memberitahu teman-teman mereka.
"Saya tidak ingin membuat posting di Facebook dan saya memilih ini," kata Mann kepada New York Daily News yang dikutip Mail Online.
"Saya tidak mau menjelaskannya berulang-ulang kepada orang lain, karena itu bisa sangat menyakitkan."
Dan mantan dua sejoli ini memulai lagunya untuk mengekspresikan perasaan mereka. "Saya ingin punya anak," Mann mulai bernyanyi dalam irama riang.
Tapi nona King menimpali: "Dan saya ogah," nada lagu beralih ke minor.
"Kami masih saling mencintai, tapi kereta ini harus berhenti. Kami hanya ingin Anda tahu, kami harus bubaran," mereka bernyanyi bersama, di nada G**, "ini benar-benar menyebalkan."
Video mereka telah menjadi sensasi di internet, menarik minat untuk dilihat 34.400 kali hingga Kamis malam.
THEY say that music heals the heart and soothes the soul, but for one young couple, their ballad is one of breaking up.
A young couple in Brooklyn has posted a video to YouTube detailing why they can no longer be together, singing their grievances against each other.
The answer for the split is as simple as 4/4 time: Jonathan Mann, 30, wanted kids, and his former girlfriend, Ivory King, 31, did not.
The couple, who live in the ultra-hip Williamsburg neighborhood in Brooklyn, said that posting a music video was the easiest, most pain-free way of breaking the news to their friends.
‘I didn’t want to make a post on Facebook and have that be it,’ Mr Mann told the New York Daily News.
‘And I didn’t want to have to explain it over and over to people, because that could be really painful.’
And so the two former lovebirds took to song to express their feelings. ‘I wanna have kids,’ Mr Mann begins cheerily in a major key.
But when Ms King chimes in: ‘And I really don’t,’ the song switches to minor.
‘We still love each other, but this train has stopped. We just wanted you to know, we’ve gotta break up,’ they sing, adding, ‘G**, this really sucks.’
They add that breaking up ‘is a mess.’
The video has already become an internet sensation, garnering more than 34,400 views as of Thursday night.
