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White - it represents purity. And we know how pure TH is - never curses, doesn’t smoke, virginal, honest, and hair is always perfectly gelled with no bedhead ever.
DogDoc……..I can do white for purity. I am very virginal, unless you count the fact that I have seven kids. Don’t know how that happened! Yes, Taylor is indeed pure. Pure soul! Speaking of “soul”, there was a post on grays from someone named “Seoul Patrol” from Korea.
how deep does it get in here?…..
coco………at this time of night, pretty deep!
Coco - Pretty deep. I have personally tromped through knee high manure, so I am quite capable. DO you need help??
Mad - Hmmm How does that happen??
DogDoc…….I think it was like a magic wand or something.
LOL…I am a good fan but I find that others may be more dedicated…also I am not going to worry about what label Taylor might get stuck under because music is one of two things….Good or Bad and we know Taylor is all good…..
coco….you are right, and we know that music is also like that old song, “you say potato and I say potahto”. We recognize what we like and that’s that.
BTW……….Jennifer Hudson had quite alot to say about AI being abusive and brain washing. Has she received a negative backlash from it? It is too early for Leno, but I am going to watch and see what he asks her. However, I really don’t care. She and the other Idols who were on LKL obviously see things differently. Horrors!!!!!!
The country thing. Well I have worked cattle, herded them on horses and by foot and roped a few. I think I can get a feel for country songs. Listened to them since 13.
You just have to imagine sitting in an old beat up pick up truck in a small Texas town. Now does the song say something that has happened in your life or could happen in your life?
Take GIve Me Tonight- Remove the Blue Eyed soul statement — imagine a honky tonk. Get rid of the back up singers. SLow it down - ya got yourself a country song. Plus there is not much else to do in the country except wrastle cattle and neck and etc.
JTFTW — Yeah — Could be country. Small dusty country town. Next to the tracks - street lights behind ya. Dude trying to talk you into something. — COuntry.
Dream Myself Awake — Laying in the back of his pick up truck on a pile of hay, middle of a pasture covered with bluebonnets, looking up at the starry TX sky. FLashes of two little kids running through the bluebonnets. Country girl turning around an walking out.
Heaven knows — Standing in a kitchen with a passel of young kids surrounding him with a apron on. SHe has her cowboy hat and sashaying out. Some guy in a cadillac waiting for her. Then another picture of him coming in the early morning after working at the factory jumping into bed with her.
Well it could be done — I can’t picture Tay in a cowboy hat though.
Hope I didn’t ruin the songs for anyone though.
DogDoc…………I enjoyed your little walk in the country, but you forgot Places I’ve Been. That one seems to be the most country friendly to me. Taylor driving a pickup down a dusty road after finding a note from his love, saying she is leaving. As he drives into town, the memories of their life together flash on the screen. He finds her at the bus station with a suitcase and she is crying. Makeup scene at the end.
Where I lay My Hat - easy country - no splainin.
The Maze is not much of a country song — unless you think of a cornfield maze in Kansas or Iowa- then maybe.
Places I’ve Been — Easy country song. Small town boy travelling all over the West working odd jobs — maybe even a country singer.
Soul Thing — HMMM I’ll have to thinkabout this one.
The Deal - Easily a country song. Take the horns out.
Mad — I like your version of PIB.
I’m going to bed.
I’ve had fun!!
DD……….. I have to leave for the nite. I am nursing a tooth infection and one side of my face is swollen. I spent a couple of hours at the dentist today. Need to take something that will knock me out enough to get some sleep. It’s been a Hell of a Day but it was fun “talking” to you. Take care.
I don’t expect many comments about this - most of what is to be said about this issue has already been said - but since there’s no chat and I need to vent re: Taylor’s Yahoo! interview, I suppose this will suffice.
Even after all these weeks, I still can’t swallow the idea that this record is 100% Taylor Hicks in the stated sense. True, Taylor apparently had more control when it came to song selection; he also successfully lobbied for a single producer. He also made a point of being in studio to record his vocals rather than do so while on tour. Because of the nature of the demands placed upon him by the record label, his response to the demand of the label was one of stubbornnesses. Taylor himself stated that he was very stubborn when it came to recording this album, and I believe that these were artistic points on which he was unwilling to compromise. However, I personally see this stubbornness as a reaction rather than the outright action of taking control. For example, instead of actively choosing what songs he wanted on the album, he was forced to choose from a selection of songs given to him. Basically, you only have as much control as you’re given and I believe that the “creative control” that’s being touted is the leeway given to him by the label.
Furthermore, for me there’s a difference between a song that is Taylor and a song that has been “Taylorized.” My opinion of the album is that it’s been “Taylorized;” Taylor didn’t have complete creative control, thus, it isn’t truly Taylor. So, when it’s said that the album is Taylor - especially by Taylor himself - my head wants to explode. I suppose I’m just bothered because Taylor is bubbling with musical potential, and to claim an album as being Taylor when it doesn’t even come close to touching the tip of the iceberg is unfair to Taylor, his fans, and potential fans who are being led to believe that this album is him. Yet in the end, who am I to quibble with someone who had an active part in the creation of the album?? And of course, this is nothing more than my opinion based upon a boatload of speculation about things we’ll probably never be privy to. A grain of salt and all that obligatory jazz…
It’s also well past midnight, so my apologies - to those of you who have made it this far back in today’s comments ;) - if this didn’t make a shred of sense.