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This doesn't mean I dislike the abstractness of much of her other work. I enjoy the lyrics and mood of "Gold Dust Woman" even when Stevie's explanation of its meaning changed radically over time. At first it was, by her admission in a 1978 interview, about girl groupies and their wicked jealousy for the attentions Stevie and Christine got from other rock stars. Years later, the silver spoon and dust references were enough for her to claim it's about cocaine. Her songs allow for these kinds of jumps in interpretation. They're not terribly concrete but they evoke a lot of personal feeling. They sometimes work like spells or incantations. Other times, they are deliberately-concealed evasions to protect herself: "read between my lines"...I consider "Sara" one of these. |
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but this was my point-- her "coherent" songs are NOT exceptions. There are so many of them, as people have listed, that it is terribly unfair for journos and listeners to characterize her writing with a blanket statement that she is "abstract" or kooky in her lyrics. In fact so many of her songs are perfectly clear what they mean. Of course over the times of her life she will find different meanings in them for herself, as will her listeners. Landslide means something different to me now than it did when it came out, and those words mean something different to her at 68 than when she wrote them at like 26. That's perfectly natural and doesn't make her flakey. Some of her other songs are more abstract or are not a single story but made up of pieces of different stories (for example Edge of 17). So what. So are a lot of songs. Listen to the lyrics of many of the top male songwriters (including LB) and they aren't the most coherent either--- but Stevie makes an easy target for critics and others because of her appearance and her interviews etc.
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btw, My previous comments weren't directed at you personally, it was more about the general approach of people who write newspaper and magazine articles about her. But really, nothing after 1978? Beautiful Child, Storms, How Still My Love, Nothing Ever Changes, Has Anyone Ever Written Anything for You, Doing the Best I Can, I Miss You, Love Is, Destiny Rules, everybody Finds Out, You May Be the One, New Orleans to name but a few......
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I was going to mention Everybody finds Out!. Nothing Ever Changes, too. But even some of the other ones you mention strike me as elliptical, cryptic, and so private I lack context for them. This doesn't mean I don't love hearing or singing them. I love singing Has Anyone...and I adore the shift at the end to what seems like a new voice, or a disembodied voice. |
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Twisted is up there as well. The clever wording along with gorgeous melody sums up the entire movie in 4 minutes.
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