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Missy Higgins is such a talent! I hope she cracked into the USA music industry. So far she's been well received.
ReplyDeleteGreat post! Missy is a talent, that's for sure.
ReplyDeleteI do have to correct you though - early on you said Stuff and Nonsense was your favourite Missy song... well, it's a great version, but it was originally done by a New Zealand group called Split Enz on their 1979 album Frenzy. It was written by brothers Neil and Tim Finn who went on from Split Enz to create Crowded House, etc.
Again, great post.
I don't really care about her music, but her politics are excellent.
ReplyDeleteG'day Y'all: I was so excited to see you're living in Dallas. How are you liking it? I hope people are treating you okay. We're pretty close to you--in Fort Worth. My two sisters live in Dallas. I agree about Missy Higgins. I really like her.
ReplyDeleteJamin: Yeah. I think I heard somewhere that it was done by someone else originally. I guess I should have said "It's my favorite song that she's sung." I guess it's technically not her song.
RVB: See if you like her politics, than you would probably like mine. I'm in the Missy direction. I might be more weird than her though.
Love her music and the girl herself; she seemed like a very down to earth person when she appeared on Spicks and Specks.
ReplyDeleteJayne,
ReplyDeleteShe's sweet. She's smart. She's adorable.
She's one of those who makes me wish I was a lesbian. Or bisexual.
Your last remark reminds me of the old joke about a graffito on a toilet wall that said, "My mother made me a lesbian!" Someone wrote the reply, "If I give her the wool, will she make me one too?"
ReplyDeleteI think Higgins' voice is a great example of unashamed showing-off of the Australian accent in singing. I love it. Much better than all the pseudo-British and pseudo-American tones that a lot of our singers adopt.
Retarius,
ReplyDeleteYeah. I think I wrote a post about that a long time ago. I couldn't figure out why I couldn't hear an Australian accent when I listened to Australian music. I actually included Higgins in the group because in the first songs I heard from her, I couldn't hear the accent. But then later I heard other songs and I could definitely hear the accent.
I still remember the first time I heard "All for Believing" when she won the Unearthed award (it was a very different structure then - no website!).
ReplyDeleteThe Sound of White is a pretty depressing album if you listen to the lyrics - children committing suicide, "The Special Two", "The Sound of White" and several others. Beautiful though. It's a little sad that she can write so eloquently about these things at such a young age.
I think she has struggled with the difference between sexuality being a part of who you are, and who you are doing it with. The latter is none of anyone's business, but keeping the former a secret somehow validates the bigots (in my mind anyway). She sorted it out in the end.
And, that version of "From Little Things Big Things Grow" that she did with Kev Carmody was absolutely awesome!
Ariane,
ReplyDeleteIt's sad she can write about such things...but not surprising. I think the lives of most children/teenagers are more painful than we imagine. I think as an adult, we look back at those years as a time of innocence. But they rarely are.
I think you're right about the sexuality stuff. I like your differentiation between what you are (sexuality wise) and who you're doing it with.
this is an awasome post! Thank you so much for collecting all this info!
ReplyDeleteOh n' on the encore part... I just went to San Francisco Fillmore on 3/23... and we screamed our hearts out...chanting "Missy"...she n' her band came back out for "the special two".. which is awasome!!!
Sibo,
ReplyDeleteThat's funny about the encores. I guess maybe she decided not to be against them anymore. Sometimes people change their viewpoints ; )
I'm glad you liked the post!!!
Great post..i'm a Missy fan,shes a great talent :)
ReplyDeletewhen u get a chance,look up elana stone..totally different music,but another young talent.touring the US with tripod soon.
IWasntbloggedyesterday,
ReplyDeleteThank you for the suggestion! I'll go check her out right now.
Yeah. I like Missy Higgins a lot too. I especially like the sister song...makes me cry.
So, what's with the lion in your photo? I've been having recurring dreams about lions and tigers. They used to be bad dreams, but now they're changing to a more positive tone.
If you like Australian music, and accents, try a band called Redgum.
ReplyDeleteI noticed when you talked about vegetarians you also used the word carnivore? Like so many issues there are more than two categories to consider. Humans are not carnivores, or herbivores, our species are omnivores. If a human was to eat nothing but meat, or nothing but plants, it would be a belief based decision, like a religion, nothing to do with biology or nature.
Jess,
ReplyDeleteThanks! I'll try Redgum.
You're right about us being omnivores and not carnivores.
I'm pretty sure I knew that, back when I wrote the post, and was just kind of joking. Or maybe not? Maybe I was more ignorant back then.
Now that I think of it....
Sometimes I'll use the word "carnivore" for someone I know who eats a LOT of meat. OR someone who loves meat. But I know they're not literally a carnivore. They eat a fairly balanced diet.
Sorry for the confusion!
Just checked out Redgum and realized I've heard them before. (I was only 19)
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