A small diversion before I return to #Finn365 tomorrow...
Weather with You - a twitter rant about its meaning...
This morning's rant is entitled - It's not about the weather - please dig a bit deeper before you dismiss Weather with you.
What the song is about is all in the verses so I will largely ignore the chorus which is the only part of the song most people take in.
The first clue is in the opening line - "walking round the room singing Stormy Weather.."- Stormy Weather is a jazz standard done by all the greatest artists about depression brought on by a relationship break up.
"the same room but everything's different" suggests the singer's "blues" aren't the result of a relationship split - depression and mental health problems have many root causes.
"you can find the sleep but not the dream" Insomnia? another horrible symptom of depression, or maybe a reference to the fact that Neil Finn had writer's block and was struggling to produce songs for album 3?
"things ain't cooking in my kitchen.." a straight analogy that things are not right with the singers. "Julius Caesar and the Roman empire couldn't conquer the blue sky" how do you fight an invisible illness - all appears great but it isn't.
But the singer has the answer, a choice - do nothing like the "small boat made of china" or the "lounge room lizard" or recognise you have a problem and try to fight it. The chorus IMHO is a defiant acknowledgement that this is with "me" but I am going to deal with it.
So to me this is a deep song speaking openly about an issue that was taboo back then, like Tim's Dirty Creature from Split Enz day, it uses a common metaphor in the weather to raise an issue many even now don't like to face. On top of that it's a mega earworm with a great video clip.
So my plea is please show some new love for Weather with You - I know many think it is over exposed but maybe try to hear it with different ears and recognise that like 4 seasons in one day - a song about "smiling as the shit goes down" Weather with You is deeper than many might first think.
Yeah... sometimes it's just almost better not to read the artist talkin' about their song.
You know, first time I heard that Crowded House song I thought it was just like the artist said and thought it actually a bit annoying for that reason
Then my mind for whatever reason did this thing where it made the whole song into something more complex and deeper and mysterious
Nature having its way with me til the song was almost mystical for me in a few ways
Only to look it up tonight and find out my first impression was spot on in a way
anyhow, i've always felt like creative or willfully wrong impressions of lyrics can be more interesting than the actual lyrics and because i've never surrendered on that, no wonder i keep doing it
and i don't think i'm going to surrender on that. there's more ratiocination the way i do it and more opportunity for variation and now the element of nature getting in as well --
Not exactly misprisons, I don't think, but more like songs fractalising with outward growth or opening up portals
Weather With You was released by Crowded house in 1991 as part of their album Woodface, and covered by Jimmy Buffett for his 2006 album Take The Weather With You, which was named for it.
Everywhere you go, always take the weather with you
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Comment: We always take our „own weather“ with us - means that we ourselves are responsible for creating the environment around us: its energy, its emotional qualities, its positivity or negativity, and its happiness or misery.