So for a song to really ring true, it sort of has to go through this filtering process within myself. Not trying to get a Top 40 hit. I learned a lot in the last year, from the last tour and the last album. I mean, as a producer you have to be aware of these things because your record company wants a single.
So I became popular, which made it pop. So this made me confused. Am I pop, am I folk? And the journalists were doing the same thing. Did you consider putting it on your first album? I needed some time for it to settle into the bag of songs. I needed some time to get used to it as a song. Obviously you missed the point of the song. I guess it is. I think because I was aiming at such a complex subject that I was aiming for the simplest line to get there.
Simple melodies, happy chords. I felt I had to make it accessible because it was such a dark subject. So I went all out. But I also tried to write in the language of a child. That Berlin album is filled with references of domestic violence and all kinds of violence.
The songs are all in major keys. Stylistically, it almost belonged there. I think when we produced it, everybody felt that it was going to be the single. Knock yourselves out. I always thought that the end solo was thematically elegant, alluring.
That's the distinction isn't it. The line between genuinely feminine and effeminate. Turns out more MTFs have female brain structure, but its been pickled in testosterone. It takes time to ween of of male chemistry and replace it with female. The behavior that ensues isn't forced or a caricature of the real deal. It is the genuine article.
Emotions are close to the surface, the need to relate, the intuition, even gentle nurturing develops. Women are women with or without a trans past. See, this is what happens when knowledgeable people weigh in. Yeah been listening to it since the album came out and have never been sure myself. One thing I guess is that it's probably written from a character's perspective, like the rest of the album. I see this as presenting one kinda muddly view and doing at least that much pretty well.
They are womyn. This is one of those songs that sounds less and less trans supportive each time I hear it You make a really good girl As girls go Still kind of look like a guy I never thought to wonder why. Featuring the of songs by Ms. Album Release Date - February 18, Tales From The Realm… features 10 new songs, each telling a story that has to do with the material world and the world of the spirit and how they intersect.
Tracking for the album took place mostly at the Clubhouse Studios in Rhinebeck, and the album was mixed by Kevin Killen, who has worked with Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush. Album Release Date - October 9, Thirty-five years and more than seven million albums later, Suzanne is widely regarded as one of the most brilliant songwriters of her generation.
In , she reinterpreted a majority of her catalog in an intimate and personal manner, creating four new thematic albums that would be released over the following two years. Album Release Date - November 1, Anyone can feel like the narrator in Penitent, or Cracking, depending on your mood. Album Release Date - October 12, And I am totally white, but I was raised half Latin. Chorus: My daddy is white. So I must be white too.
When you look into the mirror, what Comes looking back at you? If your daddy is white, You must be white too. When you look into the mirror what comes looking back at you? I feel it in the city when I take a walk uptown I feel the tension in the air, I feel it ticking all around, I feel it filling up the sidewalk, in the spaces in between, Between my face and your face in public places where we get seen. He called her baby. She called him boy, and then it started.
They were strangers at the bar, and they both ended broken hearted. And it was a conversation, but it ended as a fight. I love the whole song, the story, but this one line really hit me. I cannot tell you how often this has happened to me I would imagine the same it true for many others and for reasons that should not matter. A great line in a great lyric. I tried singing it—basing a melody on what the chord progression and meter suggested—and the imagery jumped right off the page at me.
I doubt it—Vega writes melodies that are powerful for their lack of flourish and pretense; they are optimal vessels for her lyrics, even when they seem deceptively simple but are in fact sophisticated. And that goes for my own lyrics as well.
Never could get into most rap, probably because the words so often get swallowed by rapid-fire monotone something Vega is careful not to do and buried beneath the groove. Call me an old-fashioned folkie, I guess. Thank you, Suzanne, for the last line in this post. For me, this presidential race had absolutely nothing to do with race, everything to do with politics.
It also heartened me to know that voters under 30 considered race a non-issue. Even though her ancestry is primarily Spanish, her cultural heritage is all Puerto Rican. Unlike Ms. Vega, I was brought up in very white, middle class Queens and identified myself as very white and middle class.
My experience seem to be the mirror image of Ms. Not so much your definition, Suzanne… but how you feel. If The Gypsy Kings gets your blood moving… sing it! I love this post! So honest. So fresh. The title of your song is a revelation when we read the lyrics and hear your explication. If this title were mentioned—announced on the radio, say— in the South by a red-neck somebody or other, we would jump to the conclusion that it is a White Supremist song. My Irish father married a German woman, and I always felt the split in terms of ways of living, ways of working in the world.
Finally after trying to name it all these years, I was talking to a cousin at the family reunion, equally at odds, and I said I think of it as yin and yang, the oppressors and the oppressed, and he laughed. Vega — I loved your piece. I remember how acutely aware I was of how pale I am. So, I wonder, how did that notion get in my head?
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