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Post by Sto on Jul 25, 2003 9:20:15 GMT
Welcome to the final round of "The Sensual World" KateRate.
This week, to keep a little secrecy/suspense, could you please Private Message your votes to me by clicking on my name (on the left) and selecting "Send this member a private message" in my profile. Please state which song you want to win and reign champion over all other "The Sensual World" songs!
The two choices for the final are, as we had always suspected they would be:
The Sensual World
This Woman's Work
As we have analysed the songs a lot over the past weeks, I though it would be an idea to state your favourite lyrics from these two songs when replying to this thread (especially as the "Favourite lyrics" thread on the General board has vanished!)
The deadline for voting is the morning of Friday 1st August.
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Post by Xanadu on Jul 26, 2003 1:14:49 GMT
Great idea Sto'! I just love anything that has to do with the lyrics...  So, I could post the entire lyrics of each of these songs. It was unbearably hard to decide between the two and which was my favorite lyric. My vote will have to remain hidden, though. But can you guess, (Sto' will know for sure, but he's not telling) it may not be what you think? "He said I was a flower of the mountain, yes, But now I've powers o'er a woman's body, yes." The woman discovering herself and her sensuality, the "mmm, yes" coming louder and faster as the song progresses. And this the lyric which says what the character in the book feels as she now becomes flesh. Mmmmmm, yes! "Give me these moments back. Give them back to me. Give me that little kiss. Give me your hand." The delicate plea of this lyric breaks my heart everytime I hear it! Even when you place yourself into the sort of moment it was written for in the film... your loved one is in pain, maybe dying and your thoughts are filled with the small moments you took for granted that you desperately want to experience once more... I feel very strongly about these two songs, but I guess one will have to go.  But, I'd be happy with any of the songs voted as the strongest.  |
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Post by Sto on Jul 26, 2003 9:42:17 GMT
Thanks Zan!  Those are wonderful lyrics and in fact both these songs are filled with such beautiful lyrics. I take it you haven't actually voted yet, because I haven't go a PM from you? |
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Post by Sto on Jul 26, 2003 9:46:47 GMT
"Do I look for those millionaires
Like a Machiavellian girl would?
When I could wear the sunset, mmm, yes"
That's my favourite part of "The Sensual World" (song). It's just delivered so beautifully.
"I can't stop thinking of all the things that I should've said that I never said
All the things that we should've done that we never did
All the things I should've given that I didn't"
From "This Woman's Work". That moment of panic, the possibility that there could be no future together, the regrets of not fitting in more in the time that they've had so far, the anticipation of that moment when you find out what has happened. Powerful stuff!
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Post by Xanadu on Jul 26, 2003 16:58:49 GMT
Yeah, Sto' after all that (I was in a bit of a hurry) I forgot to send my choice to you.  I'll send it today. I have this thought about This Woman's Work. I do believe it was written for the film, since Michael Kamen did the score and worked on the orchestrations with Kate. That would have been enough criteria for it to have been nominated for an Academy Award that year for best song. It is certainly one of the best songs ever written, for a film or otherwise, and of that year! I think it is one of the best songs ever conceived about the fears of a possible death/loss (another is I Grieve by Peter Gabriel, check it out, but be prepared) . Her song not only deals with the sadness, that's given, but the anxiety, regret, selfishness, and shame... an assault of thoughts that come faster and stronger as the song builds..."Oh, darling, make it go away." I imagine the Oscar evening she would have performed at the piano, starting quietly alone in an elegant gown. Then the full orchestra would be revealed behind her slowly and backlit, with only a light gaussian screen between them, but the spotlight never wavers from her. Kate's beautiful voice over the swell of the music, and then it all coming back to a quiet moment with just her and the piano, and barely a whisper "Just make it go away..." Her delicate vocals nearly break for the emotion of the moment. She would have had not only Hollywood in tears, but the entire several million viewers. Can anyone deny that she would have won? |
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Post by Sto on Jul 27, 2003 9:09:24 GMT
I can just imagine it now. It would have been an exceptional moving and poignant performance. No doubt "The Sensual World" album would have been boosted in the charts a bit, too! I guess she wasn't nominated though? Probably because the fim didn't do as well as expected?  Shame  |
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Post by Neo Stella on Jul 27, 2003 18:24:49 GMT
Again, for personal reasons, "Mmmm yes, but not yet." The last line is personal, I want it to be real, but not yet. "Just make it go away" I want it, but not the pain that goes with it. No doubt about it, Kate is a genius!  |
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Post by Al Truest on Jul 27, 2003 19:20:38 GMT
I've just sent my vote in Sto'. My favorite part of each of the finalists are: "Oh darling, just make it go...make it go away" Which comes right after that dramatic crescendo that you described. "Going deep south, go down, mmh yes" is delivered in a ferverently urgent manner. I associate that lyric with a previously described moment of pleasure, |
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Post by Sto on Jul 31, 2003 11:19:29 GMT
Thanks NEO and Al'! Anymore for anymore? |
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But, I'd be happy with any of the songs voted as the strongest. 
Those are wonderful lyrics and in fact both these songs are filled with such beautiful lyrics. I take it you haven't actually voted yet, because I haven't go a PM from you?
Shame 
