The never-ending 30 day music meme

[swordznsorcery]

22. A song that moves you forward.

This one took me a while to get, and I'm still not sure quite that I understand it. But any interpretation is valid, I guess. So, a-ha have been with me since 1985, when I was ten. They've split up once or twice, but so far they've kept coming back, and recently they came up with this song, a new take on their first hit, Take On Me. What's old is new again. I wasn't sure the first time that I heard it, but now I think it's beautiful, and the lyrics seem to have a new resonance. "Slowly learning that life is ok," indeed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB11caUeHQY

23. A song that everyone should listen to. This one! And listen loud. Just maybe don't watch too, as the video is basically the cameraman trying to crawl up her nose: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ_9kun4OQo

Comments

[thisbluespirit]

That first one is lovely, thanks.

(And, no, no, don't listen to anything loud!! I am very tired of hearing everybody's music blaring out of windows and through walls and out of their cars. If I want music, I will put some on that I chose and not at times when I need to lie down and sleep. I'm feeling as if people put severe limits on all volume controls everyone it wouldn't be a bad thing.)

(I live in a small terraced house and I'm hypersensitive to sound... I liked the song at my own volume, though.)

[swordznsorcery]

That's fair! (I never actually play music loud anyway, as I'm paranoid about the neighbours. I don't live up a hill in the middle of nowhere anymore!) The volume some people play theirs at, it's amazing they don't give themselves a headache, let alone anybody else.

[thisbluespirit]

Heh, yes, I wasn't suspecting you of anything, I'm just getting stressed about my neighbours. Who, mostly, are not anything like as bad as previous neighbours, but can still be a bit much when it's the wrong times - and then there's someone opposite who manages to be loud enough to be heard in my living room, so...

You sound like a very considerate neighbour! And I can see why that song would need at least a bit of a crank of the volume. It was v good.

[heartonsnow]

Look how happy she is listening to Brian's guitar at the start!!

[swordznsorcery]

I told you not to watch it. :p

She is quite a fangirl. She was in the Queen musical, back when it first started, and she belts out those songs pretty well.

[heartonsnow]

I probably knew that but forgot.

[swordznsorcery]

It was a long time ago! Bri's the reason she got the job in "We Will Rock You", actually. He saw her in something, though I don't remember what now, and was impressed by her voice. That was back when they were first casting it, which might be as long ago as 2002 now. Yikes.

[heartonsnow]

I believe I first saw WWRY in 2000?...but maybe not.

[liadt]

I'm not sure about the new video looks like a TV show intro!

Yay for 'Defying Gravity' happy memories!

[swordznsorcery]

That wasn't the actual video. They used footage from an MTV performance for that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xKM3mGt2pE

[liadt]

That's better:) I like that audience member's jumper!