Ok everyone!! Sorry I didn't get to my messages yesterday - had a HUGE bunch of meetings yesterday, got back late and just CRASHED...
Alex, Becky is absolutely right on with her explaination of how to go about being the moderator and writing the final combined interpretation of a song. It's all about how YOU like to write - your particular style of writing or the directions that you follow, how much depth to put into it, how it's all arranged. The only thing that is asked of the moderator is to either use the wording/thoughts/ideas of the interpretations that everyone has done or the essense of them in the final interpretation. Noone wants to write their thoughts and then have them ignored in a final interp, thought that is up to the moderator to decide what will and won't be in it in the end.
I know this sounds extremely complex, but it's not. If you read a few interps you can see that there is a lot of " this could mean this or that" or "this song is about him/her/other". That's what it's all about. Just about everyone agrees(since Stevie has said this) that SS is about Lindsey, but the question is what meaning do the lyrics have reagarding their relationship - and people often disagree with that.
Rhiannon - the fresh approach is exactly why we are allowing these songs to be redone. When most of the "bigger" songs like SS were done, everyone was still basking in the light of the Dance tour and there were plenty of hopeless romantics out there to stoke the fires and endlessly debate each little line of a song. Now some people would like to go back and take another look at a lot of these songs, add in their feelings and see not only how the opinion differ, but how they are looked at with a different frame of mind. It also is a great thing because there are many people new to the Ledges that misses the most popular songs and can now take a crack at doing interps. in them.
As far as what songs are available - ALL are available!! I'd say that it's logical to exclude Ooh My Love and SS since they have just been done, but anything else is fair game!!!
Still interested? Please say yes!!
Stewy
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