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Great prose! I enjoyed the syncopated pacing of the sentences. At least that is how it played out in my head. Not sure if that was intentional or not.
Onto Florence, which I have a lot to say about.
Hunger
The same for me, but for
Especially:
And I was thrashing on the line
Somewhere between
Desperate and divine
I can't keep calm, I can't keep still
Persephone will have her fill
But also, the delivery of one of the opening lines: It just gains its strength and digs its hooks / To drag me through the day. It is clearly a song about a break up, but I tend to interpret it as a song about depression and all its wonders.
I am continuing to break down all the Florence albums, I have Ceremonials and you've already seen Lungs. I think I'm going to end up with close to 10K words by time I've done all the albums : | YIKES.
Alanis
The entire Jagged Little Pill album is an incredible little snapshot of time. Its simply beautiful. I don't think people have the same pace of life that was around that time, to even have the experiences that it explores.
We lose so much as time tramples onward.
I absolutely adore Caught! It hit me like a fucking train when I first heard it. It also helped me get clarity since at first, I was interpreting it in the love frame it's meant it (I assume). Then I started examining myself more closely, and thought - seriously? That is the hardest thing I've had to do? Not even close.
There's an element of depression, I agree, in many of her songs. In Hunger, also. I wanted to highlight the "But the more I took, the more it took away" bit as well, but figured it was too much. But that, to me, is also about depression, you know? The emotion of it.
Jagged Little Pill has been on repeat for me lately - I do resonate with it from the now, though, too :D
Care to expand?
Gladly! Sort of a statement of nostalgia, but also of experiences that can never be had in the "modern" world we find ourselves in. For instance, when I go back and watch Seinfield, and everything is happening on the phone. The fixed. Line. Phone.
People made agreements to do things, and they did them. They didn't bail last minute, or find an excuse. They arrived.
And then there's this experience that I will probably write a post about. When everyone used to listen to the radio in the car, and there were only 5 or 10 channels. You'd be stopped at the lights, and odds are, the car next to you and it's person (or people) would be having a shared experience with the same song, at the same time, at the same traffic lights. You might even make eye contact while mouthing the lyrics.
Or, the fact, that we'd all talk about the same show that was on once a week.
Less and less common ground is established between people, which then makes the relationships that we share with other members of the community, to me, feel thinner and thinner. Inflation impacts music, too; and makes the references dated and aged - perhaps they're just not well written songs.
While time moving forward, and society "improving" is "progress", there's so many shared experiences that we can no longer have on an everyday basis.
Choice, and individual taste is certainly a good thing, but we aren't just fractured by our socio-political environments, languages, and everything else that divides, but by our lack of access to acts of being united.
I think it is why I love going to concerts so much.
And I expanded some MORE on the comments below: (sorry)
https://peakd.com/hive-170744/@holoz0r/shared-experience