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I’ve posted this before. From the Korean version of I Can See Your Voice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxSTwIrWcAM
The lyrics translation is somewhere in the comments, but you don’t need to understand Korean (I don’t) to understand the pain in her voice. Of the few words I understand, After she she says to kill her, she says please and the closing word is hate, (I) hate (you). .
BTW, she was chosen as a tone deaf singer, which is why everyone is so surprised.
Sarah R
for all of you wondering, this is from the musical SeoPyunJae. It is about a girl (SongHwa) who gets trained by her father to sing pansori. The father, in order to deepen her angst so that it will enrich and deepen her sound, blinds her by giving her medicine telling her it’s for her health. This piece is called ‘Resentment’ in which she realizes what her father has done to her and resents him with anguish. At one point, she says ‘why don’t you just kill me? Just kill me instead!’
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This song is based on a novel and a film, in which a father who dedicated his life single heartedly despite poverty to a traditional epic style emotional lengthy storytelling song named Pansori which requires many years of tenacious hard training to master. He wanted his daughter to become a great Pansori singer who could touch deep sorrow in the human heart. When she sang too smoothly without emotion and did not want to sing any more after her brother left them to give up this poverty ridden Pansori track, he gave her a medicine which would cause a gradual loss of her vision. He thought blindness would keep her at his side and the sorrow in her heart would make her a great Pansori singer. Later her father confessed this to her and asked for forgiveness before he died. She already knew his father had made her blind. She forgave his father in spite of her inexplicable sorrow deeply internalized in her heart. She must have been heart broken. She expressed this sorrow called Haan through Pansori tearfully but never without respect and restraint.
Whiskey Lullaby always makes me a bit misty:
@WOOKINPANUBv.2 what you want to do is put the URL on a line all by itself.
Cheryl Bentyne has a powerhouse voice. She really finds the heart of this song.
Oh god, I discovered this song during a breakup
This one, gets me.
The ode about school bullying (and maybe about trans-issues, there are some hints), Belle And Sebastian’s “Lord Anthony”. Gladly, I never was much bullied at school, but this always chokes me up:
As the father of two teenaged sons, this is one of the most powerful and moving song/video I have ever seen/heard. Just wow.
Alan Jackson’s Remember When
Amy Winehouse’s Rehab chokes me up now but didn’t on the initial listen. Bought Warren Zevon’s last album and listened to it on headphones while working at, well, work. Keep Me In Your Heart came on and I had to go to the bathroom because I didn’t want people wondering what terrible thing happened to me because actual tears streamed.
I’ve always thought there was something very Aerosmith-y about that song. Listen to it again, and imagine it with heavier guitars, drums, and Steven Tyler.
Eddie Vedder and Natalie Maines remake of James Taylor’s You Can Close Your Eyes. I first heard this song when my mother was dying of cancer and it made me completely fall apart.
Still does.
I followed Rosanne Cash from her beginnings (Seven Year Ache), and some of Rodney Crowell later, if only by their association. Decades later, I come across this song that speaks of his trying to make it in the music business, and their relationship at the time. Sentimental, some may say, but I like it because of and in spite of that, and the harmonica is beautiful.
Space City by Mike Cooley/Drive By Truckers
Just the first line alone “If I could have one wish right now, I’d be about as half as tough as I pretend I am”.
He wrote this from the perspective of his grandfather grieving the loss of his grandmother. It’s such a brilliant character song and just puts you right in his head with those emotions. It’s exactly what Cooley does best.
It only just barely meets the 20-year criteria, but Ani DiFranco’s “School Night” shows why I think she’s the finest songwriter of the last 30 years.
Most of the songs on The Wind are tearjerkers. Please Stay from the same album is my nomination for the list.
