Comments on: YouTube Find Of The Week: Alanis

By: nn

nn — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:27:31 +0000

Very interesting “2 cents”/thoughts. I still must ponder it some more. I appreciate your reply. Do you think the pedestal is meant as the foundation or as the object of admiration?

By: bluesmokeofparadise

bluesmokeofparadise — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:57:06 +0000

I think it’s one of her best, zacca!

Glad you enjoyed it.

By: zacca

zacca — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:02:34 +0000

Thank you for the intro to this song. I am enjoying this one. Love Alanis!

By: bluesmokeofparadise

bluesmokeofparadise — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:36:03 +0000

Hi nn! Good to see you . . . was just thinking about you.

KY’s bio is multilayered and interesting . . . and she seems to me what the deity in us should be, when we don’t project into small objects which are nevertheless necessary and beautiful . . . hard to resist, I agree, for she embodies that place we desire to return to, the source that we separate ourselves from.

My 2 cents re: the teacher/parent is that our school is the universe, our teachers thus the great ’sages,’ and the parent is the archtype of what we emerge from, resist, and then build on in our own development.

But that is just my 2 . . . and with Alanis I think this stuff is always drawn from that very deep well of the collective unconscious . . .

Thanks for commenting.

By: nn

nn — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:38:03 +0000

Nice piece. Profound cultural shift.

I’d like to know more about the meaning of the teacher/parent lyrics.

Kwan yin…easy to understand in terms of an idea sprouting from the collective unconscious all the way to the small “idols”. Hard to resist her, our deepest desires wrapped up in her femininity. “great mercy, great pity; salvation from misery, salvation from woe; self-existent; thousand arms and thousand eyes” Thank you for sharing it. I greatly appreciate Alanis for both her music and her lyrics.