Extraterrestrial Deer Legs? Really?

Have you ever heard a song and loved it so much that you played it on a constant loop, over and over, until it's so ingrained in your brain that you even hear it in your sleep? Yeah, me too. When Katy Perry's Teenage Dream released last year, E.T. was the song responsible for my liking her music. It was the first song of Katy Perry's that I downloaded. It complemented the MS I was writing at the time and the words had my imagination sparking like a firework (hehe)! Anyway, I only just came across the music video today, and all I can say is that I'm happy I didn't see her 'take' on the song before I formed my own opinion. Wow, talk about different! (In both awesome and not-so-awesome ways!) And I'm not sure why she keeps using Kayne West?? His lyrics are...well, you'll have to see for yourself. Just be aware that it does have some explicit content.  Here's what Katy P. had to say about the video:


"In the end of the world scenery, a human may not look like everything we'd imagine it to look like," Katy explained on her decision to cast albino model Shaun Ross. "[The ending is] almost kind of symbolic. It looks a bit like the beginining of time in the end of time. Like an Adam and Eve situation, like trying to start again in a post-apocalyptic world."




Without further ado:

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Here's the album version--so you can hear it without all the extras. (lol, try not to dwell on the spelling mistakes, if you can!)



So what do you think?

Songbird

As a writer I must admit that music plays some part in providing my inspiration. The tone, beat, and sometimes, but not always, the words, often help with the task of keeping within the vein of the scene. For example, when I write about sixteen year old Lillian, a heroine from my Lillian Riece series, I tend to select playful tunes. Her personality is that of someone youthful, someone in high-school, someone just beginning to live--neither woman, nor child. Eliza Doolittle's 'Rollerblades' is a perfect little ditty for Lillian.
In my opinion, music is a medium that transmits in all forms and kind. Even from the most unexpected sources, such as my muse. For those of you who haven't heard this about my spectacular husband, you might be interested to know that one of his alias's is Songbird.  Yes, that's right. On occasion he prefers to go by Songbird, but it could just as easily be Nightingale. Or at least that's what I've been told...many, many, times. According to him, he comes by it honestly, it's in his blood.
This story is actually worth repeating and to tell you the truth, I thought he was making it up until I actually cross googled the name Jenny Lind and Songbird this morning.  According to several sources, Johana Maria Lind (Jenny Lind for short), was a swedish operatic soprano who in 1850 took the eastern U.S. by storm. She was a hit not only here, but also in her home country where she was even featured on a 50 Swedish Kroner bill.

To think that all these years I've rolled my eyes and snickered behind my husband's back every time he's mentioned his natural born talent.  Here I was thinking he should stick to basketball and leave the singing to the professionals - or to anyone else who might be able to sing in key. But he's related to "The Swedish Nightingale", so there may just be something to his claims. ...hmmm....I wonder if by marrying him I might have picked up on some of that singing talent, too...