From a viewer of this video.
Seems like yesterday I was in my 20’s listening to this Goddess on the radio for the first time, driving around in my Toyota pick up to meet a date. The 90’s… it… life, was so simple. Life was just easier, I had the world at my fingertips, I could have done anything I set my mind to. I had it made, I just didn’t realize it then. What happened? College, career, marriage, loved ones passing on, kids… Divorce. Hair turned white, joints ache when it rains… LOL! Now, I’m looking at retirement in the next few years and relocating South, single again. Where the hell did the time go?? I wish I could start over, go back in time, go back in my old truck, hearing her on the radio for the first time. Sometimes we don’t appreciate the simple things in life or realize how good we have it. Life goes so fast. Appreciate the good moments and people in your life… as nothing lasts forever.
I thought it was a moving post. Not especially eloquent but heart-felt, by someone who was obviously moved by this old video of Hope Sandoval performing this simmering, heated, intimate ballad, offering, in a sense, to “fade into you”, to commit everything she has to a man or woman who absorbs her.
It’s a fantasy, of course. Here’s it’s evil twin, and a song that is truly one of the greatest pop songs of all time: Leslie Gore singing the scariest love song ever: “You Don’t Own Me”. Listen to that thundering piano at the beginning: the sound of impending doom (to the boy she is singing to). I don’t need you. I am completely self-sufficient and autonomous. If I hang out with you, it will be purely by my choice, and when I choose otherwise, I will walk away without a second thought.