these adventures in solitude never done
Sep. 11th, 2008 10:36 pmOkay, so by line-by-line I think I actually meant verse-by-verse, for the most part. But for my contribution to the dying art of Verse Thursday I am doing the first stage of my liner notes of Robert soundtrack by going through the verses of the New Pornographers' Adventures in Solitude and describing how they suit one Robert Capio. Because they do.
The issue is that you have to take most of the words literally, which of course the artists didn't intend. But isn't that how most interpretations of songs skewed for characters work? No? Okay. Good point. Just keep in mind the wounded wing is real and hang on to the part of you, my musically-inclined friends, who want to say no, that's not what this song's about!
Of course it's not, because the song wasn't actually written about Robert.
( Here goes, though. There are reference links to threads and wiki pages in here sometimes but I'm inconsistent about it. )
The issue is that you have to take most of the words literally, which of course the artists didn't intend. But isn't that how most interpretations of songs skewed for characters work? No? Okay. Good point. Just keep in mind the wounded wing is real and hang on to the part of you, my musically-inclined friends, who want to say no, that's not what this song's about!
Of course it's not, because the song wasn't actually written about Robert.
( Here goes, though. There are reference links to threads and wiki pages in here sometimes but I'm inconsistent about it. )
