Moonlight/Lady From the Mountain

[vivfox]

Originally Posted by mikebise

I really love "Moonlight", especially "Strange........."
Great job, Stevie!!!!!!!

The best part of this great song.

[mikebise]

Originally Posted by vivfox

The best part of this great song.

I can't get it out of my head!!!

"Strange..."

And I love the new lyrics... really makes a great song even better!

[starshine]

I finally got my cd yesterday at BN and am listening now to it. I've finally heard this song. It does share the music and lyrics to Lady from The Mountain but with all the extra lyrics I still think of it as a 'new' song. So in my eyes its not--LFTM in itself. Its not bad but really I wished it had been LFTM so in that sense its disappointing. Than well at least I have the 'other' versions of LFTM so I am happy for that but I wished it could've been the original. So I don't hate it or nothing but oh well. It is a different song to me. Just some thoughts.

[UndoingTheLaces]

I finally saw Twilight and New Moon. Yes, I rented both of them just because of Moonlight. I recall hearing or reading in an interview that there was a line in the movie that inspired Moonlight. Does anyone remember this or know what the actual quote from the interview was?

Anyway, while watching I kept looking for something that might be a clue as to what this inspiration was. Of course, Bella sitting and staring out the window. But also, there was a line in the movie that totally resonated with Moonlight. One of the wolf boys makes a remark about Bella running with the vampires and she says something like "you can't run with vampires... they're too fast". And it makes me think of "she runs with the ones she can't keep up with... he slows down so desperate to stop her". It's both literal and figurative. A brilliant bit of songwriting.

Did you guys see the live clips of her doing this live on YouTube? That wail at the end gave me goosebumps. I was so upset over missing this show and when I saw the video I was, in some small way, glad. Because I would have been sobbing uncontrollably right there in the audience like I did watching the video and that would have just been embarrassing.

[SorcererJP]

LotM was one of the first demos/outtakes I heard from Stevie, it was even in the time I started to read the books of Evangelina Walton about Rhiannon and stuff.

I liked this song and never dreamed or hoped to hear a full produced and worked out song of this demo ever.

I have never watched Twillight, don't even have a clue what it's about. So this final version of the song has no link to something else for me. I like what it became and I think the chorus/second part really added something.

[mystical1]

Originally Posted by louielouie2000

I actually think what she did with Moonlight was the best thing creatively she could have done. There were aspects of Lady From The Mountain which were fantastic. There were aspects which were a bit hokey. I love the fact she wasn't a slave to the demo, and made something new from it. I was freaked out about it being an obvious ode to Twilight, but it's definitely not that at all. No characters are named, and had you not known from Stevie herself that she was heavily inspired by the movie, you'd never know what the song was about.

Personally, I pretend the song is about True Blood instead, and that makes me much, much happier .

Originally Posted by rubylounge

I like how Stevie mophed LFTM into "Moonlight" I tolerate the Twilight movies--not a huge fan. I wonder if they will put this song into the last Twilight movie? That would get Stevie a lot of recognition especially from a younger generation.

Originally Posted by saintvox

Please no.

If there is such a thing as bad publicity, that would be it.

Originally Posted by Artemis

I don't know, it would be bad pulicity in the way that people would be like "Oh, Stevie... no" but, it boosted the profile of Paramore and Florence and the Machine.

Originally Posted by saintvox

Generally, I wouldn't either. But Twilight has both a crazy cult following, and a crazy cult that dislikes it.

Poor Stevie doesn't need to get into that fray.

I am in no way part of that cult following but I was during the time when the books came out...I read twilight way back in 06 and read each one as the came out after that...I was HUGE into it and looked forward to the movies till they came out Catherine Hardwick who was the director of the first film really jacked it up but I have to say that after they got rid of her, each movie subsequently got better...that said, I have every intention of watching the remaining 2 films and would ♥♥♥ for Stevie to sing in that but ast Artemis said, and I have to agree, it would boost Stevie up again and on one hand that would be great but on the other hand people would go to see her just because she sang in Breaking Dawn and if you have ever been around these twihards you know that it is no picnic being around them and frankly I dont want to have to fight off people to get to see Stevie