| Bill Callahan – Baby's Breath Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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| Joanna Newsom – What We Have Known Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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The war readings are spot on. In a 2005 interview Joanna said “Quite often, though, I include things that I feel do relate to things going on in the country. They’re not explicit, because I hope nothing that I put into these songs is too heavy-handed — but it should be accessible. I mean, last year I put out a single, and the B-side was a song about the war in Iraq, called ‘What We Have Known’. “Basically,” she continues, “it was about cultural amnesia and about how we repeat the same awful mistakes. Some people got it immediately, but I had … well, I don’t need people to literally get everything, because I want everything to be open to all sorts of interpretations. But I had thought it would really take some hard work to ignore the anger and the element of hopelessness in that song. But I feel a lot of people did ignore it, because they didn’t want to see a song that existed in the present. Or to see me as someone who was pissed off about there being a war …” http://www.listener.co.nz/issue/3414/artsbooks/4855/the_river_of_history,2.html |
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| Joanna Newsom – What We Have Known Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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The war readings are spot on. In a 2005 interview Joanna said “Quite often, though, I include things that I feel do relate to things going on in the country. They’re not explicit, because I hope nothing that I put into these songs is too heavy-handed — but it should be accessible. I mean, last year I put out a single, and the B-side was a song about the war in Iraq, called ‘What We Have Known’. “Basically,” she continues, “it was about cultural amnesia and about how we repeat the same awful mistakes. Some people got it immediately, but I had … well, I don’t need people to literally get everything, because I want everything to be open to all sorts of interpretations. But I had thought it would really take some hard work to ignore the anger and the element of hopelessness in that song. But I feel a lot of people did ignore it, because they didn’t want to see a song that existed in the present. Or to see me as someone who was pissed off about there being a war …” http://www.listener.co.nz/issue/3414/artsbooks/4855/the_river_of_history,2.html |
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