Ever After - A Deal With God

Vecā Derība, salīdzinot ar Jauno, ir kā Pamela Andersona pret klīrīgu jaunuvi, kam pirms tevis bijuši kādi divi džeki un kas nemūžam nenorīs, ja vien ar varu naizspiedīsi muti #norape #nogangrape Es gan nesaku, ka esmu baigajā sajūsmā par Pamelu, Boys Boys Boys Sabrina no tās ēras šķiet daudz ņemamāka, kaut vai tāpēc, ka nav tik klišejiski blonda, bet piemēram – Vecā Derība ir kaut kas tikpat vulgārs un fundamentāls :) reizē. Jebšu esmu diezgan drošs, ka kaila viņa būtu nesimetriska :/ no astoņdesmito formīgajām ikonām mani visvairāk šarmē Keita Buša, ko jau noteikti esmu rakstījis katrā no savām (nopietnajām) cibām un kuru man pat neceļas salīdzināt ar visu to kristīgu trešu. Man sākumā likās, ka Running Up That Hill ir par kādu depresīvu čali, bet tur, izrādās, vispārīgāks sižets un kaut kāds triumfējošs atavisms triviā

“I was trying to say that, really, a man and a woman, can’t understand each other because we are a man and a woman. And if we could actually swap each other’s roles, if we could actually be in each other’s place for a while, I think we’d both be very surprised! [Laughs] And I think it would be led to a greater understanding. And really the only way I could think it could be done was either … you know, I thought a deal with the devil, you know. And I thought, ‘Well, no, why not a deal with God!’ You know, because in a way it’s so much more powerful, the whole idea of asking God to make a deal with you. You see, for me it is still called ‘Deal With God,’ that was its title. But we were told that if we kept this title that it wouldn’t be played in any of the religious countries, Italy wouldn’t play it, France wouldn’t play it, and Australia wouldn’t play it! Ireland wouldn’t play it, and that generally [meant] we might get it blacked purely because it had ‘God’ in the title. Now, I couldn’t believe this, this seemed completely ridiculous to me and the title was such a part of the song’s entity. I just couldn’t understand it. But none the less, although I was very unhappy about it, I felt unless I compromised that I was going to be cutting my own throat, you know, I’d just spent two, three years making an album and we weren’t gonna get this record played on the radio, if I was stubborn. So I felt I had to be grown up about this, so we changed it to ‘Running Up That Hill.’ But it’s always something I’ve regretted doing, I must say. And normally I always regret any compromises that I make.”

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