tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1817425618078186784.post1483183186540760156..comments2023-07-28T03:04:08.277-05:00Comments on The Singular Scientist: They Took My Joy__I Want It BackDrDoyennehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01923421604660796579noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1817425618078186784.post-41435963088030070862013-10-13T20:04:04.882-05:002013-10-13T20:04:04.882-05:00Thanks for the information about Bettye LaVette, t...Thanks for the information about Bettye LaVette, the video link, and the overall post. I'm a software guy, also trying to find where those thieves took my joy to.<br /><br />I got here by... well I have copies of both Bettye LaVette and Lucinda Williams performances of "Joy." They list different cities! Today I saw a preview for the movie <i>Muscle Shoals</i> which is about the period when it was a sort of Paris of music-making. I wondered which version of the song mentions that town. But each time I listened I got too into it and forgot to hear the city names!<br /><br />LaVette sings about joy in a <i>hard</i> way, which is incongruous (though riveting, obviously). She goes from city to city looking for joy as if it's literally hiding in a place, as in the "geographical cure," which sounds naive, but <i>doggedly</i>, which isn't. The sound of the song reinforces the humor, too.<br /><br />The thing is, joy <b>is</b> naive and nonsensical and has no time to sweat that! <i>Damn straight,</i> Bettye! Chase the bastards down and <i>wring</i> it out of them! And then wail on Joy! And she literally did spend her career chasing, and then evidently has found joy, despite it not making sense.<br /><br />So this is the moral I would like the story to have: if you have learned to be dogged, and if joy was your reason, then if you remember that, and maybe if you're willing for it to seem kinda funny and not make sense, it's possible to reclaim joy doggedly.FutureNerdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17103481765366134475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1817425618078186784.post-55893854803767743752011-12-10T15:45:56.223-06:002011-12-10T15:45:56.223-06:00Hey, i was just looking for some stuff about Betty...Hey, i was just looking for some stuff about Bettye Lavette and i found this blog..<br />I got what you mean, and thanks for remind me how important is keep passionate and strong about our dreams.Priscila Uenonoreply@blogger.com