--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i still don't know how to respond to the discussion > list....so, i have no > idea who will receive this. :-) i didn't even read > the whole list. i just > read several people's negative feelings about "talk > to me." lyrically, it > doesn't rank with her finest work, but musically, it > thrills my soul.
You must have done it right, Roscoe. :) I've been reading the posts about "Talk to me" and, as usual, I can see both sides (now and then.) Debra Shea doesn't like it because she thinks Joni is kowtowing and that the person Joni is talking to doesn't deserve her. I hope I read that right. And I agree. And yet... this sounds like a woman newly in love who wants to know everything about this man - and he's just not giving. She's breathless and giddy like a schoolgirl. She knows she's making a fool of herself, opening up and talking about everything all at once. But isn't that what new love can be like? It's that risk, that willingness to make an ass of yourself for the object of your affections, and hoping he does the same. Even the way she sings this song sounds like she's so eager to get it all out there that she trips over her own tongue and loses her breath in the telling. She's mad for this guy. She's foolish enough to squawk like a chicken (yeah, I hate this part too, but so what) Now if that's not making a fool of yourself for love, I don't know what is. After it's all over, that's when you sit back and say, "Jeez, I wish I hadn't said that - I wish I hadn't done that - the bastard wasn't worth it". But then, don't you just go and do it again? How human. I love this song, but I totally get why some people don't. Duality strikes again, dammit. ===== Catherine Toronto ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
