...that's what Jordan called this project, and that works for me.
Some preliminary notes: a couple folks pointed out that this seems to repeat the most tawdry aspects of identification, that minimum value of art. My goal was, in part, to restructure identification; that's what I meant about looking for resonances beyond the character in the song acting out a scene that you too have acted out, or would like to act out.
What's dullest about identification is that it ends up mandating a kind of demographic segregation; if we're stuck with seeing our own particularities of event replicated in songs, then we tend to prefer folks likely to have had similar experiences, which means -- in the case of the readers of sugarhigh!, to generalize viciously -- people who've been to college, and are middle-class, white, and probably male. Now look, nothing against Elliott Smith and John Darnielle, of whom I am fond; I just remain curious as to whether, and how, people imagine their affective relations to, say, hip-hop's ghetto fabulisms, or the generic romanticisms of Top 40, or the pointed populisms of Nashville.
Looking at the results so far, it may well be that people don't have such relations at all; that most sugarhigh! readers do indeed prefer songs sung by people demographically similar to themselves. But I'm not really in this for serious empiricism; curiosity regarding how folks talk about their music-listening lives is the main appeal for me.
I'm going to post a collection of passages from responses sometime in the next couple of days; in the meantime, here's Ange Mlinko's headphone cento, which according to her (!) resonates with her life "not at all." The wider you make your window, the closer you'll get to the right line breaks; it's in couplets.
Here, pick up, dig, dig out those weeds out of your happy go lucky fields of such predictive thinking
How come there's peacocks in the front yard?
Terry meets Julie, Waterloo Station, every Friday night, but I am so lazy, don’t want to wander, I stay at home at night
Apartment in New York, London and Paris, where will we rest, we're all living on top of it
And now all day the radio’s been playing the same song, can’t shake that tune but it’s ok, maybe the world isn’t so small
The men were here to get your Belgian things
Hey, there's a difference between resonating with my life and resonating with my desires. In these lines one meets no cranky babies, overworked husbands or tiny apartments. Such songs exist; but I don't need to hear them.
Posted by: Ange at July 31, 2004 09:18 AMAren't your desires part of your life?
Posted by: Wallace at July 31, 2004 12:27 PMi agree with ange's statment...i realize that i am not of the mind set of, for example, "my b.f. cheated on me for the umpteenth time and my heart can't take it anymore, so i'm going to listen to some kanye west feat. Enya"...i'm just a nerdy girl simply who likes the way Trick Daddy sounds when describing his outfit...why do i enjoy a plethera of musical genres that don't fit "my background"?...because my desires don't discriminate...and they don't necessarily resonate with my life...
Posted by: mary at August 1, 2004 11:51 PM"If one's desires can be abstracted from it, what remains is not life but survival."
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