The song American Pie is such a fascinating phenomenon to me like.
I was born in 1988 and had no cultural like knowledge or feelings about Buddy Holly or The Big Bopper or anything obviously because they had not been… Alive when I was alive! I did not experiencewhat it was like to live through the plane crash they died in in real time! I have no experiential reference for that at all! And I also had no knowledge of what American Pie was ABOUT before my dad explained it to me when I was about 10. And even then it’s like… okay, so these musicians died in a plane crash. That’s sad. But like. There is no way to read the wiki article about this event and feel the way that this song feels about it! There just isn’t
But American Pie is just it’s such a masterfully crafted song musically and in terms of sheer EMOTION and the way all the metaphors somehow come together to make you be like “SO true Don Mclean” even though you have no idea what the jester stealing the kings thornéd crown Represents at all
Like I used to hear that song on the radio and BAWL. I don’t know anyone who doesn’t sing along passionately when it comes on the radio. Somehow the sheer feeling that he manages to put into the song itself just FORCEFULLY POSSESSES YOU even though you do not really care or may not even KNOW what the fuck event he is singing about! Like it’s A CLASSIC and younger ppl with absolutely noooooo like, touchstone to what it Means are and will continue to be obsessed with it because it somehow just. (Gestures)
I feel really emotional about this when I think about it because I am not a musician but I am a storyteller and an artist and I feel like this is such THE goal of creating art to communicate some deep wrenching feeling about an experience you have had that somehow is so skilled at hacking into the feelings core of almost every human who consumes it in spite of them not relating to that experience AT ALL
I just think that’s a really magical thing about the way humans can communicate through art you know? Makes me feel SUCH FEELINGS
i love that post thats like “never trust how you feel about your life after 9pm” that shit changed my life. every time i feel bad i look at the clock and i’m like Aha It’s 10:26 PM You Cannot Fucking Fool Me
