[SONG OF THE DAY] Have been hearing this song for quite a while recently, but never really paid attention to the lyrics and the messages to be delivered. I am now totally into the song after checking the MV tonight. People keep complaining pop songs are like rubbish and some are detesting/degrading pop music just to show they have certain classy taste in music (Ive always have some doubts in so-called indie music; for me, the term indie is commodified in a way, totally going off track of its original spirit!). You cant hate something because its catchy :P Just a few thoughts: 1) The characters in the MV are almost all people from the marginal in the society (the little boy, not sure if hes Native American, and his apparently short-tempered dad caught my attention right from the beginning of the video) 2) Spivak asked the well-known question Can the Subaltern Speak?, and for a long time the question has been open to debates for scholars in postcolonial-, subaltern-, and probably ethnic studies. But its interesting for me that what the video shows us is the possibility of not listen as an alternative of resistance/subversion. Cool! 3) Ah, is that a little boy or a little girl? If its a little boy, what will be changed or how our reading of the video could be reshaped when the boy is replaced with a little girl? (the women in the video are kinda scary btw Orz) 4) I like the scene when the little boy gave some coins to a vendor to buy a heart and it is put into the pale-faced old mans pocket near his chest. Can we buy a heart? Is there any power structure between the man who holds and gives out the bloody heart and the man who takes it quite passively? How do we make sense of the little boys role in this exchange? 剛剛才認真看了這首歌的MV（之前只當是電台流行曲），發現歌詞和影片都挺有意思的，睡前反覆聽了很多遍。流行音樂沒那個糟糕，我最討厭那些借由厭斥流行樂而故作姿態的人了（「獨立音樂」已經被消費成一種自命清高的標籤，和其原初精神根本不符）。只因為旋律琅琅上口就一竿子否定流行樂，真是蠢斃了！ 其實我應該要認真來記錄我在小麥城的新生活，但是總是提不起勁來，只能一邊“la la la la la”胡亂聽歌然後吐點東西。 這裡已經是深夜，但外頭還是依能聽到人們大聲唱個Frozen裡面的歌（其實是Let it go和Let her go的混唱版，之前在youtube聽過Sam Tsai(沒記錯也沒拼錯名字的話）唱過，格外有印象，所以聽到外頭吵鬧還是挺親切的！（我這幾天和大陸學生講話，害我覺得自己無論咬字或是打字都帶點大陸的腔調！真是好樣的！） 除了第一段，其餘中英文完全是兩回事呢XDD （中文負責告解用） https://youtube/watch?v=uXCAyWtNAPw
Posted on: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 05:49:36 +0000
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