Illume Question
 

So....it says "smelling Nag Champra"....I was sure this stuff was called Nag Champa....I have a box of Nag Champa...and so I'm confused...is there another kind called Champra?

Nope... it is definately Nag Champa... there is even a box of it on the table in the picture of the cd liner notes! And the lyrics on the Nicksfix says Nag Champa.... could it be a copyright issue?

Pip

How odd...this is going to drive me nuts!!! The lyrics in the liner notes of my LE cd...as well as just the way it sounds definetly is "Nag Champra".....I guess it could be a copyright thing....I don't know...but by Kracky! I want to get to the bottom of this hehe...

Perhaps a good question for Ask Stevie? LOL

Pip

It's driving me nuts, too!

I use Nag CHAMPA all the time, and as much as I adore Ill-loo-may, it sort of interupts the flow of the song for me.

Is it just one of Stevie's wierd speech things she does sometimes?
Like "drownded", or how on the FM Live CD Rhiannon on the first verse she says "Free-annon"??

Maybe you are on to something with the copyright thing, and maybe that is why she changed the pronunciation of the candle name to Ill-loo-may??

I burn Illume candles all the time, and I even saw an interview on the House Beautiful show with the lady who founded that company, and she doesn't say Ill-loo-may.

When I first heard her say Ill-loo-may and nag champra, I was like, WTF??

-Sharon

If you type "Nag Champra" into Google or something..stuff comes up..apparently it can be spelled both ways..but..for god's sake..there was a box of it on the table..and she spelled it nag champa in the poem..sheesh...as for Illume..i just DON'T know,lol..only Stevie :)

Too funny! :laugh:

I was wondering if anyone noticed that too... wasnt sure if I should mention it or not. My box is Nag Champa at home, lol!

Good thread!:)

hehehe....

I'm glad I'm not the only Stevie fan who burns Nag Champa incence...

Hubby and my friends think I've gone off the deep end with this.

Anyway, yes, it's a bit unnerving the way she says champra... but I like the Il-LOOM-ey. I coulda never fit the word into a sentence.

Going to bed now to Il-LOOM-ey my candles...

Maria

Nope...I LOVE it...in fact, after finding it, I refuse to burn any other incence...I've become an incence snob! LOL...

I love Nag Champa but I also love Cinammon and Vanilla

Pip

I tried that...and it asked me if I meant "Nag Champa" lol..the other stuff was a bunch of weird stuff that I couldn't figure out...

One of the things I have loved about our Miss Nicks is her artistic license with the English language. Illume' caught me off guard, as well. As far as the Nag Champra, it works for me. It's her art, so it gets to be whatever she wants it to be, like whatever she says at the end of the live Sisters Of The Moon or what she says during the Red Rocks version of No Spoken Word. It's what makes her Stevie. Now I just wish Fleetwood Mac would loosen up the set list a little.

Stevie takes more artistic license with the English language than anyone in the universe! She uses erroneous pronunciation, incorrect spelling, and faulty definitions.

(Singing)
Oooo...the list...it is never ending.
Oooo...and the earache...never goes away.

LOL! :laugh:

Damn, that woman drives me nuts with her lyrics at times. I've been cutting her slack ever since Landslide came out. I was in college then, and I've come to love the song over the years, but it was hard for me to accept it at first. The lyrics sounded so wise and profound except that it drove me nuts since they actually describe an avalanche (if you're talking about snow covered hills) and not a landslide. Too picky, you say?

The mispronunciation of Illume could have been fixed by changing the word to Illumine in order to preserve the syllables and the beat. In Smile at You, I can't deal with the awful grammar in the chorus. When I hear that I think, why not change it to "I should have turned away again"? I hear it that way when I'm listening because I just can't deal with it the other way.

I know la Nicks hates to have her words changed. Damn it, Stevie! You don't want people to keep thinking you're illiterate, do you? :eek:

Someone in another post said that Nag Champra is a legitimate spelling...but I want a source!

I know Stevie takes license with the language sometimes, I have also come to terms with it, though as a journalism major it drives me NUTS sometimes....like in RTTG..which I LOVE...she says towards....that has become acceptable in the English language, but the correct usage is Toward...no s....lol...things like that...why do I care? the music is still great...oh well...I still love her....

Champra could be the same as Illume. They are both pronounced a bit differently than the "norm".

Im soooo in love with Illume...