Sarah is the muse that artists either exalt or vilify in their works, the ones they credit or blame for their creative suffering.
Sarah isn’t a real person, and that’s entirely the point.
Neko said she basically got sick of the notion that you have to rely on a person or persons as a so-called muse for your creativity, to fawn over or to destroy as an act of revenge for some wrongdoing. She feels it’s ethically wrong and just a shitty thing to do.
So she wrote Halls of Sarah with a completely made up character as the centrepiece, just to show that you can craft a song and pine for someone or air your dirty laundry, whatever suits your fancy, without having to condemn a real person to that fate.
And it worked; I’ve completed fallen for Sarah, and she’s not even real, but that doesn’t change anything. It shows that you don’t have to destroy anyone to make magic.
@Blaze_Infernus Absolutely! And every time I hear this I wonder if "Sarah" was chosen specifically to carry on the "Sara" of Stevie Nicks' musing. The latter part of the song even has a bit of a Stevie/Fleetwood Mac vibe with the "Sarah!" background vocals.
@Blaze_Infernus Absolutely! And every time I hear this I wonder if "Sarah" was chosen specifically to carry on the "Sara" of Stevie Nicks' musing. The latter part of the song even has a bit of a Stevie/Fleetwood Mac vibe with the "Sarah!" background vocals.
Sarah is the muse that artists either exalt or vilify in their works, the ones they credit or blame for their creative suffering.
Sarah isn’t a real person, and that’s entirely the point.
Neko said she basically got sick of the notion that you have to rely on a person or persons as a so-called muse for your creativity, to fawn over or to destroy as an act of revenge for some wrongdoing. She feels it’s ethically wrong and just a shitty thing to do.
So she wrote Halls of Sarah with a completely made up character as the centrepiece, just to show that you can craft a song and pine for someone or air your dirty laundry, whatever suits your fancy, without having to condemn a real person to that fate.
And it worked; I’ve completed fallen for Sarah, and she’s not even real, but that doesn’t change anything. It shows that you don’t have to destroy anyone to make magic.
@Blaze_Infernus Absolutely! And every time I hear this I wonder if "Sarah" was chosen specifically to carry on the "Sara" of Stevie Nicks' musing. The latter part of the song even has a bit of a Stevie/Fleetwood Mac vibe with the "Sarah!" background vocals.
@Blaze_Infernus Absolutely! And every time I hear this I wonder if "Sarah" was chosen specifically to carry on the "Sara" of Stevie Nicks' musing. The latter part of the song even has a bit of a Stevie/Fleetwood Mac vibe with the "Sarah!" background vocals.