all I'm suggesting is that this is a thought that occasionally occurs to people, you not being the first one ever, but I was like "I swear I heard this motif in a song recently" and indeed there's a line with the same sentiment in Alanis Morisette's "Not the Doctor"
Oh, thanks! I went and looked up the lyrics for that song since while I've heard the name of the singer before I'm not very familiar with her work. I assume you're referring to these lines:
I don't wanna be your idol See, this pedestal is high and I'm afraid of heights
Which use only slightly different phrasing to express exactly the idea I was trying to get at.
I think it's really cool to see this idea expressed by someone else in a similar way, so please don't worry that I'm upset about it.
I'm going to go look for the song so I can listen to it and see if I've ever heard the tune. The lyrics aren't familiar to me, but that doesn't mean much since I'm notoriously bad at picking lyrics out of songs.
I don't know if the same is true in this case, but for me this idea has a double meaning, because I mean it in both the literal and metaphorical sense.
I feel a deep discomfort at the idea that I might be esteemed too highly, because falling out of such high esteem tends to illicit much more extreme actions from those who place people on such high pedestals.
But also, if someone placed me on one of those really high statue pedestals I would freak out because I literally am afraid of heights!
I agree with both sentiments about heights and I'll also note that those particular lines didn't stick out to me the first few times i heard the song either.
(I did not listen to it any time near when it came out, though I think I was aware of "Irony" circa 2010 for some reason; I found the album used when I was interested in getting some different music and remembered going and listening to one of the songs when people on twitter were reminiscing about Jagged Little Pill in I think 2019, maybe 2018 (its 20th anniversary, maybe?))
I listened to the "Not the Doctor" song and while the song itself didn't spark any recognition I did recognize the voice. Okay, so the thing is, I don't know the names of the singers or songs of many, maybe even most of the songs I've heard in my life. So a lot of the time I only recognize them from how they sound.
But it turns out I definitely have heard at least a couple other songs by her, including her song "Ironic". It's always nice when I'm able to put actual names to the music I've heard over the years.
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Date: 2021-07-25 06:37 pm (UTC)all I'm suggesting is that this is a thought that occasionally occurs to people, you not being the first one ever, but I was like "I swear I heard this motif in a song recently" and indeed there's a line with the same sentiment in Alanis Morisette's "Not the Doctor"no subject
Date: 2021-07-25 09:27 pm (UTC)I don't wanna be your idol
See, this pedestal is high and I'm afraid of heights
Which use only slightly different phrasing to express exactly the idea I was trying to get at.
I think it's really cool to see this idea expressed by someone else in a similar way, so please don't worry that I'm upset about it.
I'm going to go look for the song so I can listen to it and see if I've ever heard the tune. The lyrics aren't familiar to me, but that doesn't mean much since I'm notoriously bad at picking lyrics out of songs.
I don't know if the same is true in this case, but for me this idea has a double meaning, because I mean it in both the literal and metaphorical sense.
I feel a deep discomfort at the idea that I might be esteemed too highly, because falling out of such high esteem tends to illicit much more extreme actions from those who place people on such high pedestals.
But also, if someone placed me on one of those really high statue pedestals I would freak out because I literally am afraid of heights!
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Date: 2021-07-26 01:27 am (UTC)(I did not listen to it any time near when it came out, though I think I was aware of "Irony" circa 2010 for some reason; I found the album used when I was interested in getting some different music and remembered going and listening to one of the songs when people on twitter were reminiscing about Jagged Little Pill in I think 2019, maybe 2018 (its 20th anniversary, maybe?))
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Date: 2021-07-26 08:22 am (UTC)But it turns out I definitely have heard at least a couple other songs by her, including her song "Ironic". It's always nice when I'm able to put actual names to the music I've heard over the years.
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Date: 2021-07-26 01:05 am (UTC)Don't drop me.
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Date: 2021-07-26 08:05 am (UTC)