yesterday i mentioned the melissa auf der maur duet (le grand secret) on the indochine album. i just wanna add that her performance on that song is just stunning. and not in a fanboy-ish i-have-to-like-it-'cause-i-kinda-like-her way. no! i have goosebumps every time she comes on. but i'm not sure if you can grasp the whole thing if you don't understand french because a lot of it comes from the lyrics. but there's also something more to it. there's something in her performance that makes the lyrics come alive with ideas and imagination. she's just 100% devoted to this man. amazing.
that song still works on me and i had it in my head most of the night yesterday.
and the weird thing is, and i've talked about this before, is that on the video version, you can barely make out what she's saying. i just thought they'd buried her vocals in the mix and everything sounded like garbled french (even though i know melissa speaks very good french). so those lyrics hit me when i really first heard them.
btw, i finally made it! today's my last day of work. 4 days straight. could be worse, you say. but it started out with headaches and no friends at work. those evenings can get long and boring fast. but here i am, my last day. i have tomorrow off. and the roommate is even leaving for the weekend tomorrow afternoon! so tomorrow night is dvd night for me.
Posted by Anonymous | 10:51 AM
