Neko Case: This Tornado Loves You
This is a particularly relevent Song Corner, because, as you'll see from the "One or More Things I Did Today" that I have yet to write (July 3rd, 2011 edition*), we caught a free show at Stern Grove in SF on Sunday. And who should be performing at this free show? Why, Neko Case.
Get outta town!!!
While it's a good suggestion, I can't and won't be doing that.
But what I will be doing is writing the rest of this Song Corner installment. Lucky me.
So, back to my point:
Neko Case is pretty swell as a whole, but this song it the jam. As I was trying to describe it to Brian** at Stern Grove yesterday***, when it comes to music, it seems that people I've spoken with often describe themselves in terms of being particularly drawn to either the vocals or the orchestration in a piece of music, but skewing towards one or the other. In that sense, I realized, I can analyze a song as being 30% lyric-driven and 70% orchestration, or any other distribution. Why do I bring this up? Because I think this song I'm writing about here is a pretty perfect mix of the two: 50/50.
That being written, the lyrics are pretty astounding. I recommend listening to the words (thankfully, Neko's delivery is super crisp, making this easy to do), even if you're a "I'm not to into the words" kinda person, because this is one worth listening to. So visceral, palpable, impressive. Neko is basically a tornado chasing after a lover. Powerful stuff. Check it out!
If you're interested, here's more.
Thanks for reading.
*Don't fret - I'll go back and hyperlink you to it after the fact. Ah, the joys of editing a blog. I'm bigger than linear time, guys!
**Like more and more things I'm saying these days, I seem to be articulating points via conversation that were prior to a bit nebulous in my mind, but that spring forth fully formed like Athena from Zeus's dome when I'm chatting. Fun stuff!
***Note: if you are reading this post and it is not July 4th, 2011, "yesterday" is not really "yesterday". Remember, that whole "time" thing. If you are reading this post and it is July 4th, 2011, please contact me immediately, because I've been trying to be bigger than this whole linear time deal, and you apparently have some means of time travel that you should share.
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