From: owner-headline-girl-digest@smoe.org (headline-girl-digest) To: headline-girl-digest@smoe.org Subject: headline-girl-digest V8 #11 Reply-To: headline-girl@smoe.org Sender: owner-headline-girl-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-headline-girl-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk headline-girl-digest Monday, April 11 2005 Volume 08 : Number 011 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Headliners , PLEASE HELP!!!!!!! [mark crislip ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 21:05:36 +0300 From: mark crislip Subject: Re: Headliners , PLEASE HELP!!!!!!! I think part of what's interesting about Emm's lyrics is that they are a lot like impressionist poetry. She uses a lot of details and mental associations to create mood and feelings rather than create a particular storyline. It's rare that you see a linear narrative in her songs. If you look at a Pissarro or a Sisley you tend to feel a certain way. You don't concentrate on this brushstroke or that line, it's about mood. In the same way, I wouldn't focus too much on particular lines in most of Emm's work because, let's face it, she likes to play with words and ideas and how the composition comes together as much as anything else. On 4/7/05 7:55 PM, "Chirag Mehta" wrote: > I think that is the case with a lot of song writers though. Most of the > songs that I write, I have a ideain my head but then words come out that > seem to make no sense when I read back at them. People have different > impressions on them, and I kind of know what I meant when I wrote them, > but not fully. They just sounded good at the time! > >> Paul has got a point here, which I noticed last night while running > through a lot of Emm's song lyrics: I have no idea what she's saying half > the time, and I'm sure I don't catch most of the references. I just enjoy > the music and blindly sing along. >> >> This whole topic made me realize something else, too, which is that Emm > rarely explains the meanings behind her songs. I know she's written songs > for this or that person, but for the most part I don't have a clue. I > never would have known the reference Paul pointed out. >> >> Greg >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Paul Schreiber >> Sent: Apr 7, 2005 1:13 AM >> To: leftofcenter21@yahoo.com, Headline Girl >> Subject: Re: Headliners , PLEASE HELP!!!!!!! >> >> from good riddance, on _science fair_ >>> Urban hello >>> Electric holiday >>> Whatever you say but you don't speak for me >>> You don't speak for anyone >>> All the paper fools downtown on the corner >>> Killing the trampoline delay >> "killing the trampoline delay" >> >> "the trampoline delay" was a record by transistor sound and lighting >> co. the record company shelved it. >> >> her stuff is all so obscure, you'll have a hard time coming up with >> examples. >> >> >> >> paul >> >> >> shad 96c / uw cs 2001 >> / mac activist / fumbler / eda / headliner / navy-souper >> fan of / sophie b. / steve poltz / habs / bills / 49ers / >> >> your love is better than ice cream / >> better than anything else that i've tried / >> -- Sarah McLachlan, "Ice Cream" >> >> [demime 0.97c-p1 removed an attachment of type > application/pkcs7-signature which had a name of smime.p7s] - -- I'm a famous artist. Honest!: http://smirky.com ------------------------------ End of headline-girl-digest V8 #11 **********************************