2.99 Cent Blues

i feel like i should read Ethan Frome right now with this song on repeat in the background just to understand the whole story. But really, then i think about it again, and decide i don't feel like spending that much time on classic literature.

oh well

yay for one of the most upbeat jazzy regina songs i know of!

This song is fun, and I love listening to it.

Ethan Frome

The novel explores the theme of infidelity through the character of Ethan Frome, who wishes to feel vibrant and young again. Ethan's wife, Zenobia (nicknamed Zeena), is a hypochondriac and has led herself to believe that she is going to die. Her relatives send for her cousin, Mattie Silver, who needs work as she has been left penniless and an orphan. Ethan embarks on a chivalrous affair with Mattie, which causes him to consider leaving his wife numerous times although he lacks the confidence to carry out his plans. When Mattie displeases Zeena, she sends her back to the city. Emotion overcomes Ethan, and he tells Mattie that he wants to live with her forever. They decide to sled into a bulky tree, so it will kill them instantly rather than live the rest of their lives separated. The accident fails to kill them, but paralyzes Mattie and leaves Ethan with many ailments.

Wow, you should have said you were going to use spoilers!

this song is so upbeat, and i love to ing it it makes me so happy, ut i recently read Ethan Frome and it is so depressing.... such a contrast... regina is wonderfull

I think this song is about materialism.

She mentions things like water and stories and soldiers all having pricetags on them. Things that we need or create. Things that should be free to us are all sold for profit.

So anyways, maybe I'm wrong, but I just think its about how wrong that is.

in the lyrics its stated her: "he calls me by my native name and takes good care of my native son"

but i believe its actually: "he take good care of my native son and he call me by my native name."

possibly "called me by my..." oh yaa, & i meant to say, that in the first part of the song :$. ahahha

• here. fuck i cant spell :$

When she says "He takes good care of my native son"...could this be an allusion to Native Son by Richard Wright?

I love this song.

I find it interesting that the places where she usually roams are the most bizarre, while "in the furthest place [she's] ever known" lives a young, shell-shocked war veteran, obviously the most real of all these images.

And the only character who is not concerned with money is the "caterpillar cousin" who doesn't pay rent.

I read Ethan Frome in 9th grade or something, and I hated it. But now that I think of it, I don't feel much love for it, but it is depressing. But depressing in a kind of pathetic way. For some reason, I always picture Regina (not a character of hers) singing this song, and to picture her getting a carriage ride from Ethan Frome is just a weird image.

Bottom line, I do not know what this song means.