Re: Ba-Bush-Ka

[MTARR@EAGLE.WESLEYAN.EDU]

Hi!

Steve notes:
 
> Y'know, something has always bothered me... "Babooshka" has always been one of
> my favorite KaTe Songs, yet I always wince at the line "Just like his wife
> before she freezed on him".  Ignoring the possible sexist connotations of this
> line, what bugs me is why didn't she use the correct word, "Froze"?  It does
> nothing to the timing of the song; also, I doubt if she picked "freezed" because
> it "sounded" better phoentically (Kate is NOT the Cocteau Twins, no insult intended to either KT or CT).  Freezed?  Come ON now!  I know grammer has never
> been the top priority of rock (Imagine "I can't get any satifaction") but Kate,
> as far as I know, has no other "artistical" mistakes (OK, I'm probably wrong
> here).

Y'know, I never noticed that before!  I guess I've been too busy getting the
chills at the way she sings that line to think of the grammar.  But you're
right...

Actually, the funniest thing I've ever heard her say was last year (goddess,
that was almost exactly a year ago!) at the KonvenTion, when she was talking
about the song "The Sensual World" and the hell she went through with the Joyce
estate while writing it.  She said something like "Here I was with this music
and this passage, and the words just *fitted*, you know, they fitted so
well..."

Fitted.  Yeah.  Is that like in the King James Bible where everything gets
builded and begetted and all that?  ;)



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    Meredith Tarr           		"We let the weirdness in..."
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