tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2389530333077823143.post3666383196211196903..comments2024-01-08T10:10:48.074+00:00Comments on That The Bones You Have Crushed May Thrill: Gay Marriage: The Musical TestThe Boneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10271719805983763595noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2389530333077823143.post-9355322162100152532012-02-29T21:58:40.734+00:002012-02-29T21:58:40.734+00:00I'd broadly agree with gemofthe ocean
here'...I'd broadly agree with gemofthe ocean<br />here're MORE TO CONFIRM YOU:<br />wHEN iM 64, BEATLES: MARRIAGE 4 LIFE, GARNDCHILDREN<br />SO OK, THEY DIDNT LIVE UP TO IT. But, as in moost of their songs : <br />obladi ooblada: desmond molly + <br /><br />engaement ring + later kids<br />http://youtu.be/gTWftMYh-cE<br /><br />Cliff richard, the young ones: boy+girl + one day we'll have yuong ones of our own <br />http://youtu.be/2W47M_z9vN8<br />Well, he's still single, or what ever, but the song was very popular<br /><br />hermans hermits <br />http://youtu.be/32bVUFshSAo<br />looks like a lament for a heterosexual breakup<br /><br /><br />also reandrerecorded<br />IF IWEre a carpenter, and you were a lady<br />would you marry me anyway <br />would you have my baby?(nuff said)<br /><br />http://youtu.be/zfBIzbo0PrE<br />AND SO ON AND SO FORTHMike Cliffsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06405021835510775527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2389530333077823143.post-35694912934938392032012-02-29T09:59:35.209+00:002012-02-29T09:59:35.209+00:00Excellent post, once again!
This should be publis...Excellent post, once again!<br /><br />This should be published as an article in a newspaper.<br /><br />God bless,<br /><br />DA Reluctant Sinnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00133283710220978097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2389530333077823143.post-79412873164013305992012-02-29T09:51:24.705+00:002012-02-29T09:51:24.705+00:00Interesting post -- but I think it's safe to s...Interesting post -- but I think it's safe to say there's not many real romantic male/female let's get married etc. etc. of the purely romantic kind being written much now either. The last 30 years in particular have been a wasteland in that regard. But I suggest if you look back to the 30-50s and into the 60s and even early 70s to a degree, you'll find plenty of romantic songs that could be a romance song for either straight or homosexual couples. You've entirely skipped over many great 'popular standards' and classics from musical theatre. Don't forget not a few lyricists like Larry Hart were gay. The age in general was a lot less crude as regards romance. The last really 'romantic' let's get married and raise a family song I can remember that carried that sort of thing with complete innocence was 'We've only just Begun' by the Carpenters! [...and that song was originally written for a bank commercial at that.] For a short example compare the lively 'you're all the world to me' lyrics (which could easily be 'the song' for both hetro/homosexual) to something from the White Album.<br /><br />You're all the world to me:<br />'Everywhere that beauty glows you are,<br />Everywhere an orchid grows you are,<br />Everything that's young and gay, brighter than a holiday,<br />Everywhere the angels play you are.<br />You're like Paris in April and May<br />You're New York on a silvery day.<br />A Swiss Alp as the sun grows fainter,<br />You're Loch Lomond when autumn is the painter.<br />You're Moonlight on a night in Capri,<br />And Cape Cod looking out at the sea,<br />You're all places that leave me breathless,<br />And no wonder: you're all the world to me.<br />You're Lake Como when dawn is aglow,<br />You're Sun Valley right after a snow.<br />A museum, a Persian palace,<br />You're my shining Aurora Borealis<br />You're like Christmas at home by a tree,<br />The blue calm of a tropical sea.<br />You're all places that leave me breathless,<br />And no wonder: you're all the world to me.'<br /><br />Somehow 'we' went from that to:<br /><br />'Why don't we do it in the road'<br />(x5 times)<br />'No one will be watching us, why don't we do it in the road'<br />Repeat whole darn thing several times.<br /><br />No wonder 'no one' falls in love anymore ... they just have 'relationships.'<br /><br />Not many writers today are clever enough to rhyme 'Persian palace' with 'aurora borealis.' Anger and 'road' songs are easier. The whole culture plays to the lowest common denominator.gemoftheoceanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05521207668262592414noreply@blogger.com