She Loves Him Still

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by HoursAndHours

It would be neat if, as part of - or an alternative to - her memoir/autobiography, she instead published the lyrics to each song she's released, and explained all the different things the song was about.

If she can remember. It amused me no end when, as much as Stevie likes to talk, Courtney Love just talks even more than she does and wore poor Stevie out until she just had to wave her white flag, "You know what, Courtney? I don’t really know what "Gold Dust Woman" is about."

You keep asking Stevie enough questions about a song, verse by verse and she'll just give up. It's about drugs or sex or I don't know, leave me alone. It's like going to the optometrist and he keeps asking you which lens is better and finally you don't even care if you can read or even see, anymore. "Just give me some glasses and let me leave. I don't care."

Michele

[bombaysaffires]

Originally Posted by michelej1

If she can remember. It amused me no end when, as much as Stevie likes to talk, Courtney Love just talks even more than she does and wore poor Stevie out until she just had to wave her white flag, "You know what, Courtney? I don’t really know what "Gold Dust Woman" is about."

You keep asking Stevie enough questions about a song, verse by verse and she'll just give up. It's about drugs or sex or I don't know, leave me alone. It's like going to the optometrist and he keeps asking you which lens is better and finally you don't even care if you can read or even see, anymore. "Just give me some glasses and let me leave. I don't care."

Michele

and honestly much of the time I bet she really doesn't know. Writers always report that words just come to them and they just write them down. Stevie has said that a bunch of times it's like something/someone is speaking through her and she just writes the words that seem to be coming to her from somewhere. And that she doesn't question it. So I think part of it is she doesn't want to over analyze a lot of the lyrics because she doesn't want to jinx herself. And then she just explains them in whatever way suits her at the time.

[DauphineMarie]

Originally Posted by bombaysaffires

and honestly much of the time I bet she really doesn't know. Writers always report that words just come to them and they just write them down. Stevie has said that a bunch of times it's like something/someone is speaking through her and she just writes the words that seem to be coming to her from somewhere. And that she doesn't question it. So I think part of it is she doesn't want to over analyze a lot of the lyrics because she doesn't want to jinx herself. And then she just explains them in whatever way suits her at the time.

I know that as a song writer, I will look back at songs I've written from even two years, and say "lol what is this even about was I drunk" and then looking back on it, it will have a different meaning than when I wrote it. Because a song is more than just words; it's a feeling and emotion, and the words just act as a vessel for your own feelings and interpretations. Take a line I've written - "The only thing between us is you, and me, and the other ones you're too afraid to mention" It sounds like it's about a romance, right? Well I thought so too when I wrote it. Looking back on it, the whole song is not really romantic, it's more of a sorrowful retrospective about an old friend. But (actually looking at what I wrote right now lol) it really does seem like a romance. So I can honestly say I have no idea what it's about, and my journal entry from that day says "nothing happened and I want to cry." wtf I have no idea why I am sharing this with you I just can understand her not knowing what something is about from over 30 years ago because I can't even remember what I wrote like less than a year ago haha

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by DauphineMarie

I know that as a song writer, I will look back at songs I've written from even two years, and say "lol what is this even about was I drunk" and then looking back on it, it will have a different meaning than when I wrote it.

True, like what she said about Angel. It had a meaning, which wasn't readily apparent to her when she wrote it.

Michele

[michelej1]

And you know, I think we realize things about ourselves on a subconscious level, that we don't actually know until later. It's like Stevie said she must be psychic because she wrote Rose Garden before she was even rich, but I don't think it's seeing into the future, so much as seeing into the psych. You have patterns and I don't think you always see them until you mature. So, you write things and you kind of grow into the true meaning of what you wrote -- or it eventually means something different as your life changes.

It's not unlike Lindsey saying he'd been drawing that image of the old man for years and now he is beginning to think that man is him. Frankly, I think the man is more Ben Franklin than LB, but whatever....

Michele

[PenguinHead]

Originally Posted by michelej1

If she can remember. It amused me no end when, as much as Stevie likes to talk, Courtney Love just talks even more than she does and wore poor Stevie out until she just had to wave her white flag, "You know what, Courtney? I don’t really know what "Gold Dust Woman" is about."

You keep asking Stevie enough questions about a song, verse by verse and she'll just give up. It's about drugs or sex or I don't know, leave me alone. It's like going to the optometrist and he keeps asking you which lens is better and finally you don't even care if you can read or even see, anymore. "Just give me some glasses and let me leave. I don't care."

Michele

Some don't really understand Stevie's limitations. It's a great idea, but she isn't the type of artist who could pulled that off with any amount of integrity. A super smart artist like Elvis Costello could to that, but Stevie doesn't have that kind of acumen; I'm not inferring that she's dumb, but she lacks that level of intellect . That's why I don't welcome an autobiography ( which would need a co-writer). I rather have a biography written by an established biography writer who's known for doing thorough research. That's the only way we're going to get objectivity and real story. Sadly, the only time this will likely happen when she's an invalid or when she's dead.