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May. 9th, 2018 04:05 pm Girlyman, "Soul of You" presents the full feeling with resignation, and focuses on the the "you"'s failure; you should feel it all the way, you could feel it all the way, but you didn't and you don't and damnit, that sucks.
Carly Rae Jepsen, "Cut to the Feeling" has a sense of impatience, not just wanting to get the full feeling, but to "cut to" it, to skip the gradual build or whatever intermediate steps might be normal. It seems like it's about both parties in the relationship, though; she wants to cut to that part, for both of them. There's no sense that they're out of sync in their experience of feelings (at least that she knows), just that they're not there yet.
Amanda Palmer, "The Killing Type" is perhaps less focused, but I'd argue that "I would kill to make you feel" is its heart. It's perhaps most in the "Soul of You" vein in that she's definitely feeling lots of things; it's the "you" that's lacking in the feeling department. (I'm hesitant to put "I Can't Make You Love Me" on here in its own right because I don't want to open this too far, but I think it's worth a mention here in terms of accepting inability to make other people feel things.)
Ani DiFranco, "Half-Assed" takes it out of the context of a relationship, but also positions the full feeling as sort of the baseline, and explores the disappointment of not being able to reach it. Everything else is a failure.
Eric William Morris, "Mamma, Cut Me Deeper!" continues with the numbness idea, focused on the self, but takes it in a darker direction.
Linkin Park, "Numb" I feel like I can't touch on the numbness concept without including this, even though it's a musical outlier.
Sarah Michelle Gellar, "Going Through the Motions" / "Walk Through the Fire" Maybe this is a broader kind of disconnection, with a more dramatic origin, but it seems relevant.
Ani DiFranco, "Studying Stones" is interesting to me because it takes the angle of trying to avoid feeling. Which is probably a whole other list, people not wanting to feel things.
Carly Rae Jepsen, "Cut to the Feeling" has a sense of impatience, not just wanting to get the full feeling, but to "cut to" it, to skip the gradual build or whatever intermediate steps might be normal. It seems like it's about both parties in the relationship, though; she wants to cut to that part, for both of them. There's no sense that they're out of sync in their experience of feelings (at least that she knows), just that they're not there yet.
Amanda Palmer, "The Killing Type" is perhaps less focused, but I'd argue that "I would kill to make you feel" is its heart. It's perhaps most in the "Soul of You" vein in that she's definitely feeling lots of things; it's the "you" that's lacking in the feeling department. (I'm hesitant to put "I Can't Make You Love Me" on here in its own right because I don't want to open this too far, but I think it's worth a mention here in terms of accepting inability to make other people feel things.)
Ani DiFranco, "Half-Assed" takes it out of the context of a relationship, but also positions the full feeling as sort of the baseline, and explores the disappointment of not being able to reach it. Everything else is a failure.
Eric William Morris, "Mamma, Cut Me Deeper!" continues with the numbness idea, focused on the self, but takes it in a darker direction.
Linkin Park, "Numb" I feel like I can't touch on the numbness concept without including this, even though it's a musical outlier.
Sarah Michelle Gellar, "Going Through the Motions" / "Walk Through the Fire" Maybe this is a broader kind of disconnection, with a more dramatic origin, but it seems relevant.
Ani DiFranco, "Studying Stones" is interesting to me because it takes the angle of trying to avoid feeling. Which is probably a whole other list, people not wanting to feel things.
