Neither of these songs are groundbreaking, musically, but they do create an interesting enough complication of the verbal and non-verbal elements of song to merit a look. Setting dark lyrical themes against a musical landscape of bright guitars, towering synths, and electronic drums was a trope of new wave music. She was almost at the top of the world in her profession and let it slip away from her.
She was a dear friend and this is my tribute to her. Quick aside: some sources, including Wikipedia, believe the song might be directed at Valerie Carter, a talented, prolific backup singer, but I question this. It goes against Jennings claim that he does not want to reveal her identity. He also speaks of her in the past tense. Carter only passed on in March of this year. Setting dark lyrical themes against a musical landscape of bright guitars, towering synths, and electronic drums was a trope of newwave music.
This dissonance can add a striking dimension to a song, an ironical tension between the verbal and non-verbal. Executed well, this tension can raise a song far above the average pop tune. Creating tension by these means can create problems, too. The ironical dissonance that works in other songs does not work quite so well here. This is a song, like most electronic dance music and house, that relies almost entirely on its non-verbal components for effect.
Regardless of its label, any EDM makes this discussion challenging, purely because the genre often relies so little on lyrics. They include lyrics only insofar as they complement or weave organically into the musical tapestry.
Further establishing this new context is the music beneath the words: a driving, sex-fuelled, progressive house track that, like so much EDM, seems to be on a perpetual journey towards some impossible climax.
This re-contextualizes the plea at the centre of the song. I wanted to focus solely on the song and not its notoriously sexual video, but they are too deeply intertwined to simply ignore. Lyrics Artists add. Valerie Steve Winwood 9 Comments 0 Tags.
Lyrics powered by LyricFind. Valerie song meanings. Add Your Thoughts 9 Comments. General Comment Great Stuff - Winwood said he wrote the song because he knew of people in the music scene who were battling drug addiction and he just got so tired of seeing what the drug use was doing to the people around him- Valerie was one such person "Then she just blew away".
It's not that at all. It's a plea to a certain girl singer - someone I don't know personally but who Will Jennings had drawn my attention to - not to destroy herself with drugs. The narrator in the song is saying, 'I'm back, and I'm the same person I used to be - so why isn't she? There was an error. I had always assumed the song was about the singer meeting an old flame Valerie and saying they should go out again. However, cmckinley's take on it makes sense.
Regardless, I prefer my original interpretation of it. It reminds me of a girl I used to know that I'd like to see again she's not named Valerie though Zepfreak on November 13, Good stuff cmckinley I always, like most I'm sure, thought that he was writing about a past love.
She sadly died of a heart attack in Her obituary is at tampabay. General Comment it clearly is where call on me came from.. No Replies Log in to reply. General Comment Love this song. Kicks Eric Prydz version anyday.
Love it. General Comment Thinking about a lover who left you a long time ago. Wishing they'd come back, wondering where they are, and reminescing about the good times you shared General Comment bitchin song Or even mediocre. PhilK5 on February 27, General Comment Yes, but what's it mean?
Ultimate Panopticon on July 01, Link. Ultimate Panopticon. Ultimate Panopticon About a singer female who is a drug addict and destroying herself and he wants to help but knows she doesn't believe she needs to be helped but she does PhilK5 on February 27,
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