(Not Quite) Your Song
Originally posted @ http://scruffy-duck.net
So I really, really like Ellie Goulding’s version of Your Song by Elton John (as can be seen at the end of this post). To the point of obsession, which happens with songs, it will wear off, maybe in a week, maybe in a month. I listen to it at least once a day, usually at night when I’m trying to sleep. Her voice is gorgeous, stunning and a whole host of other words I can’t think of right now because the hamsters have been chewing at the pages of my inner thesaurus again.
But I didn’t like the song before. For two reasons.
1. The line that goes ‘If I were a sculptor, or then again not,’.
What the fuck? Did Elton John have a mini brain meltdown while writing this song? Or did he think, “If I were a sculptor….that’s a good line, now, if I were a sculptor, if I were a sculptor…you know, maybe that’s not such a good line after all. If I were a sculptor, or then again not, ha ha, that’s funny, I’ll leave it in for now, and come back to it later.” And then he never got back to it. That line really bugs me, but I can forget about when Ellie Goulding sings it.
2. Now this is the bigger point and a bit like connect the dots, so bare with me for a moment. I don’t actually Elton John, and I don’t like Elton John because of bloody Candle In The Wind. And I don’t like that song because, it’s annoying, rubbish and cause I don’t like Princess Diana. Which is actually the kicker. Bloody Diana, she’s dead and still annoying me from beyond the grave.
And one of my reasons for not liking Diana is a bit petty, because I she didn’t even really register on my consciousness until she died and her funeral took over nearly everything on tv (I was 15 when she died, my life revolved around school and sci-fi, opposed to now, at 28 when my life just revolves around sci-fi). Every channel was about Diana and her funeral, and even my sister cried, but then, she cried over an Andrex puppy advert, so maybe that’s a bad example.
The other reason is that everyone loved/loves Princess Diana cause she was a princess who did some charity work and this made her some sort of saint. Plus the evil Prince Of Wales Charles cheated on her and they got divorced and she was a single mum. A rich single mum.
There are hundreds of mums out there, bringing up their kids alone and doing charity work, who were screwed over one way or another by their husbands, who don’t have an eighth of the money Diana had.
My mum for instance.
Which was why I was so annoyed, at 15, cause I thought, that my mum was so damn amazing and deserved a little of the love that the public gave so willingly to Diana.
At 15 it was more simple. My mum was great, and Diana was just some rich bint who probably flew first class to all those African countries she visited, and had a dozen servants to help her look after William and Harry.
Thirteen years later, and I get that it isn’t so simple, but I’m even more convinced of my mother’s superiority over Princess Diana, and I’m even more annoyed at some people’s complete and utter love for a woman they hadn’t even met and definitely didn’t know. It boggles the mind and yeah, I know I sound hypocritical, because I adore certain actors and actresses, but I’m the first to admit it’s mostly lust (cause omg RDJ is so hot), and I would never bow down to Amanda Tapping (erm…) like the Daily Mail and Express do for Princess Diana. I’m not actually a big fan of celebrities. I’m a fan of the fictional, not the reality, but this isn’t what I intended to ramble about.
So, all in all, I don’t like Elton John’s Your Song because I don’t like Princess Diana. Which when put like that,sounds insane, but the connected dot-to-dot thoughts above hopefully make me sound sane (or at least saner).
I do however love Ellie Goulding’s version of Elton John, and it makes me think of my niece, because 2010 has been an awful year when I think about it, but she more than makes up for it.
Share|
So I really, really like Ellie Goulding’s version of Your Song by Elton John (as can be seen at the end of this post). To the point of obsession, which happens with songs, it will wear off, maybe in a week, maybe in a month. I listen to it at least once a day, usually at night when I’m trying to sleep. Her voice is gorgeous, stunning and a whole host of other words I can’t think of right now because the hamsters have been chewing at the pages of my inner thesaurus again.
But I didn’t like the song before. For two reasons.
1. The line that goes ‘If I were a sculptor, or then again not,’.
What the fuck? Did Elton John have a mini brain meltdown while writing this song? Or did he think, “If I were a sculptor….that’s a good line, now, if I were a sculptor, if I were a sculptor…you know, maybe that’s not such a good line after all. If I were a sculptor, or then again not, ha ha, that’s funny, I’ll leave it in for now, and come back to it later.” And then he never got back to it. That line really bugs me, but I can forget about when Ellie Goulding sings it.
2. Now this is the bigger point and a bit like connect the dots, so bare with me for a moment. I don’t actually Elton John, and I don’t like Elton John because of bloody Candle In The Wind. And I don’t like that song because, it’s annoying, rubbish and cause I don’t like Princess Diana. Which is actually the kicker. Bloody Diana, she’s dead and still annoying me from beyond the grave.
And one of my reasons for not liking Diana is a bit petty, because I she didn’t even really register on my consciousness until she died and her funeral took over nearly everything on tv (I was 15 when she died, my life revolved around school and sci-fi, opposed to now, at 28 when my life just revolves around sci-fi). Every channel was about Diana and her funeral, and even my sister cried, but then, she cried over an Andrex puppy advert, so maybe that’s a bad example.
The other reason is that everyone loved/loves Princess Diana cause she was a princess who did some charity work and this made her some sort of saint. Plus the evil Prince Of Wales Charles cheated on her and they got divorced and she was a single mum. A rich single mum.
There are hundreds of mums out there, bringing up their kids alone and doing charity work, who were screwed over one way or another by their husbands, who don’t have an eighth of the money Diana had.
My mum for instance.
Which was why I was so annoyed, at 15, cause I thought, that my mum was so damn amazing and deserved a little of the love that the public gave so willingly to Diana.
At 15 it was more simple. My mum was great, and Diana was just some rich bint who probably flew first class to all those African countries she visited, and had a dozen servants to help her look after William and Harry.
Thirteen years later, and I get that it isn’t so simple, but I’m even more convinced of my mother’s superiority over Princess Diana, and I’m even more annoyed at some people’s complete and utter love for a woman they hadn’t even met and definitely didn’t know. It boggles the mind and yeah, I know I sound hypocritical, because I adore certain actors and actresses, but I’m the first to admit it’s mostly lust (cause omg RDJ is so hot), and I would never bow down to Amanda Tapping (erm…) like the Daily Mail and Express do for Princess Diana. I’m not actually a big fan of celebrities. I’m a fan of the fictional, not the reality, but this isn’t what I intended to ramble about.
So, all in all, I don’t like Elton John’s Your Song because I don’t like Princess Diana. Which when put like that,sounds insane, but the connected dot-to-dot thoughts above hopefully make me sound sane (or at least saner).
I do however love Ellie Goulding’s version of Elton John, and it makes me think of my niece, because 2010 has been an awful year when I think about it, but she more than makes up for it.
Click to viewShare|