| Daft Punk – Get Lucky Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Appropriate title! They sure got lucky with this derivative track. I'm sure if we were lucky to get hold of some discarded Chic B-sides, they would sound better or the same as this. There were THOUSANDS of 70s disco songs that could compete with this, they were ten a penny in those days. I wouldn't be surprised if the great Nile Rogers is excited right now at how easy it is to get to number 1. All he has to do is hire some singers and create a foreign mystique around the band and bingo! | |
| Emeli Sandé – Next to Me Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I think there are only two ways how this may NOT be about God (and I find them both unlikely as I explain below) 1) She genuinely wrote it with a boy/love in mind but her subconscious belief meant her lyrics added that dimension without her immediately realising it 2) It's a cynical ploy to gain credit for adding gospel tones to a song cos Gospel tones equals traditional black (soulful) music and depth. No. 1 is unlikely as production would have included the Gospel choir and the overall Gospel dynamism of the song to which, as the writer, I imagine she would have had to give her consnet. No. 2 is VERY unlikely as having seen her in interviews, she seems a very down-to-earth and sincere young woman. A former medical student too so not daft and unlikely to under-estimate the public. So now to the reasons for: The first verses indicate that she is well aware and has no doubt experienced all the human (not just male!) weaknesses that everyone is prone to. She may have been angry at her boyfriend and come to the sad but inevitable (and important) realisation that perfection will never be found in us or our fellow human beings and that it's unfair to expect it. (By the way, if this WAS about a boy, it'd be unlikely and unfair to say that he was the only human being who had no failings! - "you won't find him..." etc ) She compares the perfection of God to these failings. (God being Jesus as it's quite blasphemous in other religions to reference God in such a personal way. Jesus (which was a common boys' first name at the time) by his very existence, was meant to personalise our relationship to a previously "distant" God who people were terrified of) The final couple of verses take on an Apocalyptic tone. She's saying that her faith in Him being next to her will not waver no matter what catastrophes happen and even if the end of the world comes. The final verse alludes to a famous quote by Jesus in the Bible (Luke 21:33, Mark 13:31, Matthew 24:35): "Heaven and earth shall pass away but my words shall not pass away" and also Matthew 28:20: "And remember, I am with you always, till the end of time". I just doubt that it could be about a boy when she says things earlier in the song, like "You won't find him ever where the rest go" and "all my friends have vanished", "can't find no help or love for free" etc. I mean even the best person in the world would find it hard to live up to all that. If it was about a boy, there would be no Gospel choirs or apocalyptic overtones in the final lyrics. I find the song very inspirational as I experienced something similar myself. Once I put 100% faith in God (through Jesus) - though one still has to work at it daily! - life got easier and one reason is that I stopped expecting people to be perfect and you forgive them (and yourself) much more easily if you don't expect perfection from people, just from God, whose love never wavers. |
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| Shawn Colvin – Trouble Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Watch the live VH1 performance on You Tube. Oh crikey, the one time during the song when she looks straight at camera (during the line: give me credit for the hell I've paid). It's so true that in this world some people just feel more than others. Thankfully for us at least, many of them become artists and produce tortured gems like this song. | |
| Shawn Colvin – You and the Mona Lisa Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| This song is about her niece. I have a single CD of Sunny which has a live version (a great one natch) of this on the "B" side. She introduces it by saying "This song is about my niece and I guess that's all I want to say about it"...to laughs from the audience and a "are you sure?", she replies (paraphrase): "the music to the song by John Leventhal was making me feel good but I had nothing to write about in my own poor sad messed-up life so I did that thing that you do, which is turn to the innocent and guileless ones around you..yeah!" In her recent memoir she confirms that it is indeed about her niece, Grace and every time she sings it, she gives the audience an update on Grace. The latest, she says, is that Grace has shaved her hair! | |
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