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Originally Posted by strandinthewind
Thanks!!!!
I think this complex nature and historical aspect of her writing (along with her personage, compelling voice, looks, and production (in this case LB and the Mac)) enables people to readily relate to her and her words. I mean Gypsy could relate to anything. A friend used it in a 9/11 memorial for a lost loved one. The whole lightening strikes, maybe once maybe twice was the planes slamming into the buildings. The "memory is all that is left of them now" (she changes this lyric every now and then) was the pictures of the deceased heroic fire fighters, the office workers that were killed, etc. I still see your bright eyes, bright eyes - can't find you - was played with the picture of the dead loved one. And, it totally worked, esp. with the urgency of and in La Nicks' voice. So, the broad appeal is evident, at least to these eyes.
On edit -- I wonder if her songs like Sara, which is equally broad and very mysterious, have such broad interpretive appeal?
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A friend of yours or a friend of Stevie's?
That's fascinating, because in
War of the Worlds, when Tom Cruise tells his daughter than lightning never strikes twice (and then "it" does!), that's one of many references to 9/11 in that film. But don't get me started on "lightning strikes twice"...