In a live interview (God, I think it was audio...possibly a print interview If Jackson can forget some words on occasion, then the general rule must apply to all, right?) I heard Jackson discussing this song. He had been addressing the fact that people bring their own experience to the narrative.
Of Sky Blue, he commented that he's been told of a couple who used it for their wedding. What he thought was a transparent break-up song used as a wedding anthem kinda amused him, and he noted the irony of writing a song, and then sending it out to the public. At that point it becomes everyone's song, and he has no control over how people understand it's meaning. Which is, after all, the point.
Another thing. I enjoy the harmonic structure of this piece. It is so simple and unfusty, and in turns, lends a purity to the music to underline the resigned gentle voice of the narrative.
I-VI-II-V on the verses and VI-IV-I-V on the refrain. Written originally in C, these days I think he sings it down a whole step or more, but uses the transposer on the keyboard, cuz both B and Bb are a bitch to play in. The key of A is way freundlich, so maybe that one.
Another thing. I enjoy the harmonic structure of this piece. It is so simple and unfusty, and in turns, lends a purity to the music to underline the resigned gentle voice of the narrative.
I-VI-II-V on the verses and VI-IV-I-V on the refrain. Written originally in C, these days I think he sings it down a whole step or more, but uses the transposer on the keyboard, cuz both B and Bb are a bitch to play in. The key of A is way freundlich, so maybe that one.
In a live interview (God, I think it was audio...possibly a print interview If Jackson can forget some words on occasion, then the general rule must apply to all, right?) I heard Jackson discussing this song. He had been addressing the fact that people bring their own experience to the narrative.
Of Sky Blue, he commented that he's been told of a couple who used it for their wedding. What he thought was a transparent break-up song used as a wedding anthem kinda amused him, and he noted the irony of writing a song, and then sending it out to the public. At that point it becomes everyone's song, and he has no control over how people understand it's meaning. Which is, after all, the point.
Another thing. I enjoy the harmonic structure of this piece. It is so simple and unfusty, and in turns, lends a purity to the music to underline the resigned gentle voice of the narrative. I-VI-II-V on the verses and VI-IV-I-V on the refrain. Written originally in C, these days I think he sings it down a whole step or more, but uses the transposer on the keyboard, cuz both B and Bb are a bitch to play in. The key of A is way freundlich, so maybe that one.
Another thing. I enjoy the harmonic structure of this piece. It is so simple and unfusty, and in turns, lends a purity to the music to underline the resigned gentle voice of the narrative. I-VI-II-V on the verses and VI-IV-I-V on the refrain. Written originally in C, these days I think he sings it down a whole step or more, but uses the transposer on the keyboard, cuz both B and Bb are a bitch to play in. The key of A is way freundlich, so maybe that one.
I-vi-ii-V and vi-IV-I-V you mean? ;)
I-vi-ii-V and vi-IV-I-V you mean? ;)