Khadaji
September 2, 2010, 3:56pm
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For some reason I had it in my head that this song was a response to another song in which a woman went on about her love for Jessie.
I have no idea where that came from.
Y’know, I have always gotten a gay vibe from that song. Maybe it’s the “Ain’t that the way love’s supposed to be?” line–the guy’s going through the motions of attraction because it’s a role, not because he wants to. At least that’s how the song has always struck me.
From the horse’s mouth (so to speak):
I don’t know her name. Actually, it was a brief relationship I had when I was making stained glass for a while. I was going to a stained glass class in Pasadena, and I met this guy and his girlfriend. I was completely turned on to his girlfriend, but she was just not interested. So I had a lot of sexual angst, and I went home and wrote a song about it. Then about 4 months later I stopped going to the class and lost contact with them. The only thing I remember is his name was Gary, so I changed the name, because “Gary” didn’t sing very well. But the whole thing is absolutely what I was feeling. He was getting it and I wasn’t, and it was really tearing me up. And sexual angst is an amazing motivator to write a song. Actually, Oprah’s people tried to find her, and they got as far back as finding the stained glass guy. I couldn’t remember his name, but I said it was late ‘70s; they found him, and he had died 2 years earlier, and they’d thrown all his papers out a year after that. So we missed finding out who she was by a year.
This post is a guitar solo.
Mtgman
September 2, 2010, 7:59pm
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JThunder:
It’s hard to define.
It ain’t hard to define.
So it’s all just a charade? Something to play along with? Well, can you think of a reason not to?
Enjoy,
Maybe she’s bipolar. (Or is it borderline.) What man could resist?
Years after the original release, the song gained far greater meaning for me when I started thinking of Jessie as Uncle Jesse from “Full House” and, as follows, “Jess(i)e’s Girl” became Lori Loughlin.
Lori Loughlin.
