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sunclouds33

Song Meme

Feb 29, 2016 13:53

I'm doing the username song meme, from kikimay, beer_good_foamy and lokifan. Post one song for each letter in your username. I even spelled out the "thirty three".

Space Oddity: Starting this off with a tribute to the late, great David Bowie.
Union Maid: By Woody Guthrie, and special plaudits to the Judy Collins/Pete Seeger version. It's a song to practically cheer to! "Now ( Read more... )

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beer_good_foamy February 29 2016, 20:00:48 UTC

"Handlebars" seems like it was written specifically for meta vids. There's a really good Doctor Who version too.

local_max February 29 2016, 20:16:02 UTC

I've heard of that and although I haven't seen it (will watch tonight when not at work) I thought of that while watching the Willow one.

ETA: I expected the "Doctor with fire behind him" image at the end. What I didn't expect was the Ood as a platypus!!!

beer_good_foamy March 1 2016, 06:41:13 UTC

Heh. Yeah. Though I think my favourite lyric matchup in that vid is "I'm proud to be an American" matched with a shot of Galifrey. That shot alone could make me write 5,000 words on Doctor Who as a post-British empire statement.

sunclouds33 February 29 2016, 23:13:32 UTC

Cool, I don't watch Dr. Who but I gather from osmosis that, at least, some of the Dr. Whos have Willow Rosenberg's and Jed Bartlet's quality of being adorable and quirky but also successfully reaching for immense power in ways that can make others uncomfortable which mesh with the lyrics of the song. "The absent-minded professor with the 'Aw, Dad' sense of humor. Disarming and unthreatening. Good for all time zones. And the Nobel Laureate. Still searching for salvation. Lonely, frustrated. Lethal." Vamp Willow and Regular Willow- side by side. "This world's no fun anymore." "You noticed that too?"

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local_max February 29 2016, 20:27:25 UTC

In defense of the Willow vid, ending with s1 Willow pays off the "I wanna be Willow" post-s6 sense of loss of innocence which makes it not just a bash fest but makes a point. I keep trying to figure out if one of those shots at the very end of the song is from STSP when Willow prepares to go into the basement before it cuts back to s1/2 Willow or I'm just imagining that. Anyway I feel like I can tell that this vidder is critical but sympathetic, rather than hostile, though it's hard to be sure ( ... )

sunclouds33 February 29 2016, 23:05:00 UTC

I think I was primed to be OK with the Willow-one because I saw the Jed Bartlet video first. Jed Bartlet is a top-10 level favorite character of mine- but I'm not defensive about him like Willow. West Wing fans generally love him, I actually think I have a darker view of him than most so I don't walk into every conversation fearing unfair bashing like I do with Willow. With Jed, I still thought there was enough of a ring of truth even though technically when the video got into the heinous meglomaniacal crimes section, half of the explosions and gunfire was attributable to terrorist attacks in story instead of military strikes that Bartlet commanded. So, I felt like I had to be more OK with the Willow vid where she actually did everything portrayed in the video ( ... )

sunclouds33 February 29 2016, 23:05:07 UTC

But I think most of all, it fits into fandom's mistaken arguments about Willow just in BtVS. Forget the fandom comparison game. People really think that Willow sits on a tuffet making failed schemes mainly out of greediness, while not being enough of a doormat for Buffy or Cordy and having the nerve to see a slight as a slight or believing that she has the power to interpret dissent as defiance even though Willow's not even high status enough to even think in terms of dissent v. defiance most of the time ( ... )

local_max February 29 2016, 23:23:49 UTC

Gonna eat dinner soon, but: the Cordelia one was obviously intended as a celebration, but if you author-is-dead it it totally reads the other way too. "Only thing I wanted was the world...."

Also absolutely that Willow is way more Walter White than Cersei Lannister in terms of method, motivations, strengths, weaknesses etc. -- independent of where they actual score in the evilmeter.

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kikimay February 29 2016, 21:01:19 UTC

Wow, you spelled 33! I would have cheated XD

I actually only know just the Queen/David Bowie songs and the Artic Monkeys one. I have to listen the others.

sunclouds33 February 29 2016, 21:32:07 UTC

The letters that spell thirty three title a lot of songs so I went for it! I don't know what I'd do if my name had an "x" in it. I've heard Beyonce's song XO but I don't care for it. I was about to put "Z" in that "WHAT WOULD I DO?" category but then remembered Zero to Hero (Hercules), Zou bisou (brought to me by Mad Men), Zoot Suit (To See My Sunday Gal), Ziggy Stardust (Bowie), Zooropa (U2)- all faves.

beer_good_foamy March 1 2016, 06:44:03 UTC

"X Offender" by Blondie, "XXXO" by MIA, "Xylophone" by the Magnetic Fields...? (Or "Xanadu" by Olivia Newton John, if it comes to that)

velvetwhip February 29 2016, 21:28:05 UTC

Any list that includes Woody Guthrie is aces in my book! Brava!

Gabrielle

sunclouds33 February 29 2016, 21:48:07 UTC

A fellow Woody Guthrie fan! It's pretty disgusting that one of the most subversive, meaningful troubadours of American history is commonly reduced to the most whitewashed version of his "This Land Is Made For You And Me" which in itself was intended as not just a celebration of American natural beauty, but also a critique of how it unfairly divides its immense resources.

velvetwhip February 29 2016, 21:54:06 UTC

Exactly! Thank you! He was not some cutesie folk singer. He was easily one of the sharpest and most acute political and social observers of his time (and ALL time).

Gabrielle