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Post by wal on Feb 19, 2013 13:05:20 GMT -5
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Post by wal on Feb 19, 2013 13:09:56 GMT -5
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Post by Holst on Feb 19, 2013 13:10:15 GMT -5
I wonder what it feels like to sing along with a song that you are listening to and sound so fabulous. She sounds great just humming and goofing. I'm jealous. |
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Post by wal on Feb 19, 2013 13:11:21 GMT -5
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Post by wal on Feb 19, 2013 13:13:14 GMT -5
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Post by wal on Feb 19, 2013 13:15:42 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2013 13:16:42 GMT -5
One more post and I will stop spamming. I was puzzled by the reggae version of OOL. It seemed so incongruous with the message of the song. Then, I listened to the YT of the entire Seoul concert and in his introduction he says something about expressing the negatives in one's life and then turning them into positives with the support of your community of friends. Something along those lines. Can anyone quote it more accurately? Suddenly, the arrangement made perfect sense. Adam can take something as mean-spirited and ugly as being told he is going to rot in hell, and, with the power of music and his Glamily, turn it into a celebratory dance. ILHSFM. He does turn it into a celebratory dance. I believe that one thought led to another for Adam; after deciding to do the cover of Bob Marley's "Is This Love" and introducing that genre into his set, he needed the connection with the other songs in his set list. He is very meticulous about making a coherent and rounded show, putting a lot of thought into its form. On a more trivial note, for example, there are reasons other than the general fabulosity of the leather, lace pants for their reappearance on WAG tour - they are one of the laces which tie it with the GNT tour. ( this could be a valid topic for further contemplation, but not now...) So, he needed reggae - he changed the arrangement of "Outlaws Of Love". Although he dropped the "Is This Love" cover, reggae stayed, and I think that was a phenomenal decision in many, many ways, the three major ones being: 1. Reggae is about the struggle; about the fight through criticism of the regime. Primarily, it was the voice of black prophetic criticism in postcolonial Jamaican society. Since it has spread internationally, the political issues it tackles include the anticolonial struggles in Africa, the civil rights movement in the United States, the failures of the immediate Caribbean postcolonial state to deliver on the hopes and aspirations of political independence, etc. It has always been the voice of the oppressed, the counter-hegemonic practice. Introducing it to the "Outlaws Of Love" perfectly serves the purpose of the song, which is to show that today, in the 21st century, there is a minority which is denied its human rights. In it, Adam criticises subtly, mostly focusing on the emotional aftereffects of undergoing such criminal injustice; so the reggae arrangement reinforces that they/he will fight, which is very important. It gives the song more power, in my opinion, and even more clarifies its social and political message. 2. With reggae being so much about the dance and the body movement, it takes a little away from the pathos of the song in the best possible way: it makes it a bitter pill easier to swallow. It shows that Adam, even when fighting, does it with fun, and style, and grace. He tells us that his dance is indeed going to be victorious, just you watch him. That moment in Seoul, when he got up from his chair at the beginning of the reggae arrangement of the song, my heart stopped for a second, swelling with pride at the glory of that man, the beauty of his voice, the grace of his body, the joy of his movements... He is the finest specimen of our kind; if I was the one choosing whose genes we should be storing for posterity or sending to space for aliens to see, I would choose his. He calls us not to cry with him, but to rejoice with him. I believe that he believes that soon enough we will all be dancing the victory dance together. 3. It sounds great! |
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Post by Holst on Feb 19, 2013 13:23:03 GMT -5
One more post and I will stop spamming. I was puzzled by the reggae version of OOL. It seemed so incongruous with the message of the song. Then, I listened to the YT of the entire Seoul concert and in his introduction he says something about expressing the negatives in one's life and then turning them into positives with the support of your community of friends. Something along those lines. Can anyone quote it more accurately? Suddenly, the arrangement made perfect sense. Adam can take something as mean-spirited and ugly as being told he is going to rot in hell, and, with the power of music and his Glamily, turn it into a celebratory dance. ILHSFM. He does turn it into a celebratory dance. I believe that one thought led to another for Adam; after deciding to do the cover of Bob Marley's "Is This Love" and introducing that genre into his set, he needed the connection with the other songs in his set list. He is very meticulous about making a coherent and rounded show, putting a lot of thought into its form. On a more trivial note, for example, there are reasons other than the general fabulosity of the leather, lace pants for their reappearance on WAG tour - they are one of the laces which tie it with the GNT tour. ( this could be a valid topic for further contemplation, but not now...) So, he needed reggae - he changed the arrangement of "Outlaws Of Love". Although he dropped the "Is This Love" cover, reggae stayed, and I think that was a phenomenal decision in many, many ways, the three major ones being: 1. Reggae is about the struggle; about the fight through criticism of the regime. Primarily, it was the voice of black prophetic criticism in postcolonial Jamaican society. Since it has spread internationally, the political issues it tackles include the anticolonial struggles in Africa, the civil rights movement in the United States, the failures of the immediate Caribbean postcolonial state to deliver on the hopes and aspirations of political independence, etc. It has always been the voice of the oppressed, the counter-hegemonic practice. Introducing it to the "Outlaws Of Love" perfectly serves the purpose of the song, which is to show that today, in the 21st century, there is a minority which is denied its human rights. In it, Adam criticises subtly, mostly focusing on the emotional aftereffects of undergoing such criminal injustice; so the reggae arrangement reinforces that they/he will fight, which is very important. It gives the song more power, in my opinion, and even more clarifies its social and political message. 2. With reggae being so much about the dance and the body movement, it takes a little away from the pathos of the song in the best possible way: it makes it a bitter pill easier to swallow. It shows that Adam, even when fighting, does it with fun, and style, and grace. He tells us that his dance is indeed going to be victorious, just you watch him. That moment in Seoul, when he got up from his chair at the beginning of the reggae arrangement of the song, my heart stopped for a second, swelling with pride at the glory of that man, the beauty of his voice, the grace of his body, the joy of his movements... He is the finest specimen of our kind; if I was the one choosing whose genes we should be storing for posterity or sending to space for aliens to see, I would choose his. He calls us not to cry with him, but to rejoice with him. I believe that he believes that soon enough we will all be dancing the victory dance together. 3. It sounds great! Thanks for that interesting little essay--#1 in particular. |
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Post by butterfly on Feb 19, 2013 13:25:37 GMT -5
Thank you hoh! Now, get stuck in the QAL videos. |
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Post by norbik131 on Feb 19, 2013 13:26:34 GMT -5
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