Re: Oh by the way

[cynder@prairienet.org (Theo O'Neal)]

K Bacon (s340090@student.uq.edu.au) wrote:
:         It seems that some people did not perhaps read my early email on
: interpretation.  I also agree that some people are 'missing the point', but
: I don't think they are people who may feel that "Your son's coming out"
: refers to homosexuality.  

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:         Open up your minds guys!!  If someone says "this song means ... to
: me", then why not say "Ok, that's interesting...how about you person B?
: person C?" etc..  Stop trying to restrict music interpretation and the fact
: that songs mean different things to different people, and stop going against
: Kate's view that songs should have a 'life of their own' - meaning the
: original basis is not to be used as strict dogma.  

It's one thing to appreciate a song differently, it's quite another to map
a comepletely different meaning onto a song and claim that such a thing is 
there.

By a simple coincidence of phrases, this happens to often be misinterpreted
as a reference to homosexuality, even though nothing esle about the song
suggests it.  To say that the reluctance to accept a differing interpretation
is due to homophobia is silly.  If I say that Mariah Carey's "Honey" is really
about Winnie The Pooh, even though I may beleive it, doesn't make it any more 
so, and would make me look like a loon in the process.

Deluding yourself that the song is about Peter Reich coming out of the closet
is one thing.  Calling others homophobic because of that is double delusion.

Viel Gluck!