Hi guys! 🙂
The song I have for you today is from a Swedish singer ELona Planman, who is my new discovery, and I must say I really really really love the lyrics of this song. Her lyrics are generally very thought-provoking, I read that her style is compared to Cornelis Vreeswijk’s, among others, and yes, it’s very visible, because she also writes in this sort of critical way, critical towards various phenomena in the society and things that are going on in our times and that others could call sensitive or tabu or controversial or that they shouldn’t be talked about, and just like Vreeswijk she’s very perceptive, but without Vreeswijk’s very sarcastic feel. Also her music is sort of rock or punk, but with some folk motives, which can also resemble Vreeswijk, who was always making something on the borderline between rock/blues and folk. Yet Elona Planman’s musical style is at the same time utterly different, and just her own.
This song, very basically, is like a monologue of the imagination/fantasy, saying that whatever people will do to her, threaten her, inprison her, attack her friends, etc. they can’t really do anything to her, because she’s everywhere, and she’s free, because her name is imagination.
This is striking and so true. That no matter what people may do to you, no matter what kind of circumstances you are in, you still have the power of your imagination (and the power of your brain as we are at it). I so agree with it. And I just love how simple and true it is. It reminds me about that Vreeswijk’s song I shared with you a while ago – “Vaggvisa För Bim, Cornelis Och Alla Andra Människor PĂĄ Jorden” – where he wrote that people are only free while they are sleeping. Only that “Fri” has a stronger and less “poetic” feel than “Vaggvisa För Bim…”.
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