When I See You Again Appreciation Post!

[shackin'up]

As a European and a non-native speaker the lyrics of illume don't have immediate impact -positive nor negative. It is just the feel that communicates immediately for me. With that in mind....

Originally posted by CarneVaca
Sorry, Bella, but I just don't see what the subtlety is in words like "trauma" and "Just remember I was so scared." That is a big part of my problem with the song: If there was trauma, you needn't use the word, and the same goes for "scared." Show me you're afraid, show me there was trauma, but don't bother telling me. To use a poor analogy, it's like explaining the punchline to a joke.

agreed,

then... what about "i'm so afraid, slip and i fall and i die"?

I'll have to see, but I really think lindsey is doing that a lot, too. For me, it is not a problem when you are telling a story, but it is when you write a poem. maybe that's the case here. (I'm just thinking out loud.)

But for me, illume' s intensity is in how she sings it, not in the lyric. when I heard the centermix I thought... oh buckingham, you should have left it there; Bass, drums, the pure vocal and maybe some backingvocals and that's it. It goes to your throat immediately. and the direct soul of that mix and raw vocal is something the song needed. So I think the arrangement gave something extra distential (english expression?) to the song. Not only by the (lack of) strength of the lyric.


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