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28 songs for the month of February. The soundtrack of my life in 2022. |
| I've gotten a bit behind now, but this is entry number 19. "Earth" by Imogen Heap Baby, behave, we'll make it work (Are you with me?) You're not golden And I'm getting tired Act like you own the place When really you've only just arrived I caught first glimmers In hides and skins Look who's all grown up Black-swanning about the solar winds You're gonna lose it all And find yourself on your knees So, get a grip and you might Flow-reverse the great, slow bleed I've tried patience, but You always want a war This house won't tolerate any more Stop this right away Put that down and clean this mess up End of conversation Put your back in it and Make it up to me now The cold shoulder Folded arms and looking up You've never listened And carry on careless, regardless This is not a fire drill and If we hold any hope It's harmonic connection And stereos in symbiosis These Lego land empires Choking out mine now You're everywhere, everywhere Multiplying around me, child A strain on my heart This rock can't tolerate any more Stop this right away Put that down and clean this mess up End of conversation Put your back in it and Make it up to me now Baby, behave, we'll make it work (x8) (Are you with me?) Whoa, oh, oh, oh You're only what you give back (x5) Stop this right away Put that down and clean this mess up End of conversation Put your back in it and Make it up to me now Are you with me? You're only what you give back (x5) Did I mention that I love vocal harmonies? Well, I do. I also love the planet Earth and would like it to continue to be habitable for human beings in the future. Wouldn't that be nice? I think so. That might be a controversial take. Some folks are ready to abandon Earth for Mars, I hear, but it sure seems a lot simpler to fix the current planet than to trash it and have to colonize a whole new one from scratch, which we will proceed to immediately trash. I mean, we've already littered space so much that at some point we may not be able to fly anything in near Earth orbit anymore due to the threat of space debris projectiles.  Yes-- first the land, then the oceans, and now space. Humans are the opposite of King Midas. Everything we touch turns to garbage.This masterful piece is a tapestry of layered vocals with a not-so-subtle message. I'm not sure exactly how many layers this took, but it sounds like hundreds at some points. (I'm pretty sure it's not, it just sounds that way.) That combined with the vocal percussion really gives the song more depth and dimension than you would expect is possible from a single person's voice. Because it sounds like Imogen did all the vocal parts herself, which is why everything blends together so well. I think it's pretty clever that she wrote this from the Earth's perspective, and Mother Earth is not happy with us. "Put that down and clean this mess up." As a note, people talk about how we’re "destroying the Earth", but that's not really what's going to happen. The Earth, as a planet, will continue to exist and orbit the sun. What we're actually doing is causing our own extinction, along with the extinction of most of the other forms of life currently on the Earth. But the Earth, she's going to be just fine without us. Anni |
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