it's like a beautiful child of ten wearing mascara and blood-red >lipstick: you spoil the freshness. for that kind of orchestration you >need a cole porter lyric -- cool, urban,Ok. Joni's lyrics, or poetry, or discourse, are represented by a pre adolescent girl. The orchestration is this girl's make-up, inappropriate, even vampish.
perfectly built for THAT purpose -- or an opera aria, for god's sake. >the way i see it, it seems as if joni were bleeding all over the >harps. when you write something like amelia or otis and marlena, you >write it for a totally
different kind of instrumental environment. wally k.
Isn't that Amelia song about some woman's possibly epiphanic realization that her life held no real love? And isn't Marlena that travel drained socialite who hangs out down in Miami?
And aren't analogies meant to represent truth?
The metaphorical language of Amelia seems rather well suited to just this kind of instrumental environment. Were one to ask me....
Best regards,
Jeff
who has patiently, quietly, and generally enjoyably not missed a post for two weeks but now feels like a ten year old girl who needs to pee.
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