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- From: miket@hermes.tcs.com (Michael Turner nmscore Assoc.)
- Subject: Re: "Cheating"
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.015518.5188@tcsi.com>
- Sender: news@tcsi.com
- Organization: Teknekron Communications Inc.
- References: <ZEN.92Dec29095115@death.corp.sun.com> <1hqik4INN7ns@bang.hal.COM> <1992Dec30.132049.23736@news.acns.nwu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 01:55:18 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.132049.23736@news.acns.nwu.edu> Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu (Albert Lunde) writes:
- >In article <1hqik4INN7ns@bang.hal.COM> landman@hal.COM (Howard Landman) writes:
- >>I'm not so sure. Many songs in "women's music" warn about the dangers of
- >>intercourse. Take, for example, Chris Williamson's "Twisted Love":
- >>
- >> Twisted love, hard on the spirit
- >> Twisted love, don't let me near it
- >> Only one drop, can poison the water hole.
- >>
- >I will raise some questions about this interpretation -- there is nothing
- >in the song that is gender-specific, and at the time Cris W. came out with
- >the album she got some reaction from would-be fans that it was not
- >lesbian-oriented enough. So I doubt there is an anti-male or anti-het
- >message in this song; I think she's just talking about messed up relationships
- >generically.
-
- As a sometime fan of hers, I'd have to concur. Maybe I'm being dense, but
- I thought those were lyrics that could speak to anyone....
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- Michael Turner
- miket@tcs.com
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