Hi Michael, I must respectfully disagree with your point here, although I understand it completely. The thing about writing and speifically music, is it IS ALL personal. However, we all can listen to a song and it touches our own story within, it brings out an emotion and an episiode in our own lives. When we hear the interpretation of that specific song, from the author, it may very well have a totally different meaning, but it is all about when that song becomes ours and what it means to us.
In a song uch as Cold Blue Steel & Sweet Fire, that is pretty subject specific and yet I know many people untouched by heroin who can get totally immersed in that song and it's message. And any song about love can be a couple's song - even a break-up song. So in the case of a great artist/writer like Joni, we may know the true root of her compostions, but when we are sitting back and in our own moments, can we not feel something completely different than Joni ever intended or feel the same emotion but for our own reasons? Just my own observations. I would also say as a small time, no talent writer, I used to be inhibited for the very thing you present, that no one would see what i was saying ... or understand me. But the mind is a complex and amazing thing. When I began writing more I was always surprised at the parts that people latched on to and that let me know to write with abandon and let people find what they need in it. So, write for yourself and share for others own self exploration. Okay I have pontificated much too long and the bottom line is Blue Hotel Room has what I believe it takes to be a standard. No matter what Joni herself may even say about this. So sing it, all you singers! Peace, Susan NP: Jeff Buckley/Everybody Here Wants You --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As much as I love BLUE MOTEL ROOM, I don't see > it ever becoming a standard -- the words are too > Joni-specific. > > Because La Joni IS such a specific writer (which is what > makes her so valuable and so unique), many of her songs > belong to her and her alone. Doncha think? > > MICHAEL in Toronto Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
