Everyone's 9-11 experience was so unique, yet at the same time, we all suffered the same universal feelings of fear and anger. In that light, I think illume is brilliant. Illume touches on both the "I" and the "we." It is impossible to write a song that can summarize the day in one respect or another for every single person who expereinced it. That is just a ludicrous concept. But writing a song describing your own feelings and relating them somehow to how other people felt makes for a much better song. That's why I like Stevie's writing-- you can take her "I" and make it your own.
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