falling for it
This whole un-financially-gainful-employment situation has me at home a lot. This means I get to listen to my music more. Not that I hang out at the Studio in silence (fyi: the Studio = the Gallery), but it’s less antisocial to sit at home with my headphones up. I recently aqcuired Atmosphere’s 7′s Travels. I can’t stop playing it. OK, I can and I do. But I like it, a lot.
I’ve read some opinions of the production that aren’t great. I can’t remember where I saw it, but my favorite was something to the effect of: Ant needs some new kits/equipment. I’m a little torn on that, some of the beats make me want to actually dance (something to be said for Atmosphere’s normally too-dark-to-dance-to music), but some other tracks do sound tired. It’s not the best album ever, so some songs I skip every time. Others grabbed me and won’t let go. Whatever.
The track that really gets me is Reflections. Some that know me well would say: of course. There are others songs (like Shoes, Bird Sings Why The Caged I Know and Trying To Find A Balance) that have their own good thing going on. But listening to Reflections, I’m a twitterpaited green teenager with visions of holding deep conversations with Slug. Just like the daydreams I had about Q-tip and Tori and Bjork and whoever. I’d ask who he had in mind when he was writing it. How many girls did me meet like that? How many times has he been in love, really in love? What, other than girls, inspires him? Does he even like this song he made? Maybe he remembered me, the look in my eye that gave everything away, from his last show here? Or I could come up with even cheesier questions (But really, I’d end up standing in the back bobbing my head, never raising a Q).
See, the song is about a girl. Or maybe a certain type of girl. The girl is ready to be an average groupie, and he’s trying to explain that she shouldn’t cheapen herself like that. Because she’s better than that, and beacuse he’ll take advantage. I like it not because I want to be a groupie, average or not. But because I am, like many others, convinced I can be interesting. Eye-opening or intriguing, even. And at the very least, I can usually spot a cat’s game and call him out on it. As he says in the song, I want to make him “testify for here and right now”.
For those that don’t know Slug’s material well: it’s all about girls. As a good friend reminds me: Slug makes hiphop for girls. He does and he does it well. And he’s right: I can’t save him and I’m “too smart to be a tour mark”. But I have fallen for this one.
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