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sorcyressSo, one of the benefits(?) of working at the thrift store is that we've constantly got the local mix station playing. It basically plays assorted unoffensive songs from the sixties up through today, and if the music isn't excellent, at least most of the time it's ignorable.
I've actually managed to learn a couple of good songs from there --I perk up, for instance, every time Carly Simon comes on to sing about me, and I actually made an effort to add both "As I Lay Me Down" and "Hey There Delilah" to my music collection. I've also managed to learn a handful of unbelievably annoying songs, things that earworm me like nobodies business, or make me want to claw out my brain.
And then there's Love Story, by Taylor Swift. It's new --I only heard it for the first time this summer-- and the lyrics managed to grab me enough on that very first listen to make me take note.
Because seriously?
"Romeo take me someplace we can be alone
I'll be waiting, all we have to do is run
You be the prince and I'll be the princess
It's a love story, baby just say yes"
The whole thing seems designed to push my damsel in distress button. "STOP WAITING" I want to scream at her. "If you want him so bad, go out and get him yourself! It's not fair or right to make the boy do everything in the relationship!"
Compounding the issue is the fact that both the video and the song imply that our heroine is little more than a teenager, making this a story of a high school aged girl finding her perfect love and living HAPPILY EVER AFTER! YAY!
...The Sorcyress really doesn't believe much in the idea of people finding their perfect true love and living happily ever after so young. Even moreso, what little she does believe in the idea, she really really doesn't support the idea, for anyone --let yourself get through college, get out in the world, experience things before you decide to settle down with the one true love of your life.
So, that's two major strikes against the song, lyrically. It makes me cringe in ways that very few songs do, just because of how painfully useless the heroine is. Seize your own destiny, woman!
...but I love this song to bits and pieces. Maybe it's just the fun pop melody or something, but nothing the radio plays can put a smile on my face like hearing this song. I mean, I actually went onto YouTube, just so I could find it and listen to it whenever I felt like it. I can sing along with most of the words, and I'm okay with that, because I really really like this song.
A couple weeks ago at work, a potential reason of why it resonates so deeply with me hit, and hit *hard*. Yes, I hate everything this damsel stands for. But let's be honest for a second --isn't my relationship with The Doctor the exact same thing?
He's not my Romeo, but he's still that wonderful magical figure who's gonna appear and save me from this boring life sometime. He'll take me away from everything I want to escape from, and I won't have to do a thing to make it happen. And *man* does it bother me that this comparison is so damn clear.
I can try and sugarcoat it, to make me feel better about myself. "Waiting for the adventure of a lifetime is *nothing* like waiting for a boyfriend" yeah, well, why not? Ms. Swift and I both want to be taken away. What's it matter that we want to be taken for different reasons? And who's to say that the one's more important or better than the other?
At any rate, I've been working on a filk in the back of my head. "Doctor Who take me someplace we can go explore / I've been waiting for you to show up at my door / You be the Time Lord, I'm your companion / it's a sci-fi story, baby it'll be fun" We'll see if I actually ever finish it. In the meantime, well...I'll continue to deride that sort of helpless damsel attitude.
...but at least I now know that I've got it too.
~Sor
MOOP!
I've actually managed to learn a couple of good songs from there --I perk up, for instance, every time Carly Simon comes on to sing about me, and I actually made an effort to add both "As I Lay Me Down" and "Hey There Delilah" to my music collection. I've also managed to learn a handful of unbelievably annoying songs, things that earworm me like nobodies business, or make me want to claw out my brain.
And then there's Love Story, by Taylor Swift. It's new --I only heard it for the first time this summer-- and the lyrics managed to grab me enough on that very first listen to make me take note.
Because seriously?
"Romeo take me someplace we can be alone
I'll be waiting, all we have to do is run
You be the prince and I'll be the princess
It's a love story, baby just say yes"
The whole thing seems designed to push my damsel in distress button. "STOP WAITING" I want to scream at her. "If you want him so bad, go out and get him yourself! It's not fair or right to make the boy do everything in the relationship!"
Compounding the issue is the fact that both the video and the song imply that our heroine is little more than a teenager, making this a story of a high school aged girl finding her perfect love and living HAPPILY EVER AFTER! YAY!
...The Sorcyress really doesn't believe much in the idea of people finding their perfect true love and living happily ever after so young. Even moreso, what little she does believe in the idea, she really really doesn't support the idea, for anyone --let yourself get through college, get out in the world, experience things before you decide to settle down with the one true love of your life.
So, that's two major strikes against the song, lyrically. It makes me cringe in ways that very few songs do, just because of how painfully useless the heroine is. Seize your own destiny, woman!
...but I love this song to bits and pieces. Maybe it's just the fun pop melody or something, but nothing the radio plays can put a smile on my face like hearing this song. I mean, I actually went onto YouTube, just so I could find it and listen to it whenever I felt like it. I can sing along with most of the words, and I'm okay with that, because I really really like this song.
A couple weeks ago at work, a potential reason of why it resonates so deeply with me hit, and hit *hard*. Yes, I hate everything this damsel stands for. But let's be honest for a second --isn't my relationship with The Doctor the exact same thing?
He's not my Romeo, but he's still that wonderful magical figure who's gonna appear and save me from this boring life sometime. He'll take me away from everything I want to escape from, and I won't have to do a thing to make it happen. And *man* does it bother me that this comparison is so damn clear.
I can try and sugarcoat it, to make me feel better about myself. "Waiting for the adventure of a lifetime is *nothing* like waiting for a boyfriend" yeah, well, why not? Ms. Swift and I both want to be taken away. What's it matter that we want to be taken for different reasons? And who's to say that the one's more important or better than the other?
At any rate, I've been working on a filk in the back of my head. "Doctor Who take me someplace we can go explore / I've been waiting for you to show up at my door / You be the Time Lord, I'm your companion / it's a sci-fi story, baby it'll be fun" We'll see if I actually ever finish it. In the meantime, well...I'll continue to deride that sort of helpless damsel attitude.
...but at least I now know that I've got it too.
~Sor
MOOP!
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on 2009-07-05 05:11 am (UTC)(no subject)
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on 2009-07-05 05:29 am (UTC)no subject
on 2009-07-05 06:26 am (UTC)The filk sounds like fun. You really should finish it. ;)
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on 2009-07-05 08:42 am (UTC)no subject
on 2009-07-05 02:33 pm (UTC)If I'm going to get into the whole damsel-in-distress thing, I prefer Evanescence's Bring Me To Life. The voice and the drama are much more interesting, and she has a more healthy-looking body type.
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on 2009-07-06 05:55 am (UTC)Also they have in common that I thought they were both done by Vanessa Carlton or someone and then I looked 'em up and realized they were people I didn't even realize existed on the radio.
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on 2009-07-09 12:02 am (UTC)Hey There, Cthulu is more better.