I was thinking today, it's a long time since I listened to Bonnie Raitt and I was trying to explain her attraction to 25 people who are about 30 years younger than her and me. But what was trying to do was talk about song lyrics as seduction - and how can this not be such a song? I persuaded them that when Bonnie sang, "I can't make you love me, if you won't..." that they had to deconstruct this as, "Why don't you, you should..." But do we ever really say what we mean. Our whole language is coated with paradoxes, contradictions and oxymorons. We ask questions when making statements, we use irony and satire just to be cruel and generally joke around when we are trying to say something serious. Its a strange language this that they call English. But I digress, in many ways, because I am in a Bonnie Raitte kind of mood, this is great song (its the one I was referring to) because what it says, really, is that not everyone you try to like is going to like you back - and we all know some of them, I guess!
I was thinking today, it's a long time since I listened to Bonnie Raitt and I was trying to explain her attraction to 25 people who are about 30 years younger than her and me. But what was trying to do was talk about song lyrics as seduction - and how can this not be such a song? I persuaded them that when Bonnie sang, "I can't make you love me, if you won't..." that they had to deconstruct this as, "Why don't you, you should..." But do we ever really say what we mean. Our whole language is coated with paradoxes, contradictions and oxymorons. We ask questions when making statements, we use irony and satire just to be cruel and generally joke around when we are trying to say something serious. Its a strange language this that they call English. But I digress, in many ways, because I am in a Bonnie Raitte kind of mood, this is great song (its the one I was referring to) because what it says, really, is that not everyone you try to like is going to like you back - and we all know some of them, I guess!
