Dai propri idoli, si sa , si aspetta sempre il meglio.
Essendo la divina Kate un mio sogno artistico (ma non solo) da quando avevo 12 anni , ogni volta che sento che esce qualcosa di suo corro a scoprire cosa ha combinato di nuovo, anche perchè la sua presenza sulle scene si è molto diradata nel tempo, cioè dal fenomenale "Aerial" del 2005. Dunque questo "Director's Cut" è un'operazione di rivistazione di pezzi risalenti a "The Sensual World" (89) e "The Red Shoes" (93), e qui scatta la prima inevitabile considerazione: un fan di Kate, per acquistare (o scaricare) un album con pezzi probabilmente ancora presenti nella memoria, si aspetta che la nuova veste dei pezzi sia tale da renderli come nuovi, e quindi ascoltabili con un rinnovato interesse.
E' così? A mio avviso no, o meglio, non del tutto.
Anzi , quello che colpisce (vedi pezzi come "Lily", "The Red Shoes", "The Sensual World", ma anche "Song Of Salomon") è proprio il fatto che tutte queste gran modifiche non ci sono ..trattasi di dettagli ma non di sostanza del pezzo in sè. E allora dove sono le sorprese? Personalmente le ho trovate in "Moments Of Pleasure" (che è effettivamente molto più intimista e stringata) e in "Rubberband Girl" , trasformata in un pezzo alla Rolling Stones. Il resto? Ribadisco, a mio avviso, è molto simile agli originali e se differenze ci sono , si annidano nei particolari degli arrangiamenti.
Magari ci sono stati cambiamenti nei testi, ma nell'economia totale dei pezzi non mi pare sia determinante , specie per chi non è di madrelingua e quindi non coglie immediatamente le differenze.
Questo , insomma , vuol dire che il disco è brutto? No. La musica di Kate non è in discussione, e quindi neanche la bellezza di questi pezzi, che rimane.
Quello che mi chiedo (s'è capito) è: ma era poi così necessario questo "Director's Cut"? E se proprio si dovevano ri-arrangiare pezzi del passato, perchè non andare a ripescare , che so, album come "The kick inside" o "Lionheart"?
Dispiegati e descritti i dubbi, rimango comunque devoto innamorato della affascinante Kate, e quindi mezzo occhio lo chiudo, pur non potendo, per onestà, dare il massimo dei voti.
Forza con un nuovo album di inediti, Kate!!
Elenco tracce e testi
04 Deeper Understanding (06:33)
As the people here grow colder
I turn to my computer
And spend my evenings with it
Like a friend.
I was loading a new programme
I had ordered from a magazine:
"Are you lonely, are you lost?
This voice console is a must."
I press Execute.
"Hello, I know that you've been feeling tired.
I bring you love and deeper understanding.
Hello, I know that you're unhappy.
I bring you love and deeper understanding."
Well I've never felt such pleasure.
Nothing else seemed to matter.
I neglected my bodily needs.
I did not eat, I did not sleep,
The intensity increasing,
'Til my family found me and intervened.
But I was lonely, I was lost,
Without my little black box.
I pick up the phone and go, Execute.
"Hello, I know that you've been feeling tired.
I bring you love and deeper understanding.
Hello, I know that you're unhappy.
I bring you love and deeper understanding."
I turn to my computer like a friend.
I need deeper understanding.
Give me deeper understanding.
06 This Woman's Work (06:30)
Aha-ooh! Aha-ooh! Aha-ooh!
"You'll have to wait in here."
Pray God you can cope.
I'll stand outside
This woman's work,
This woman's world.
Ooh, it's hard on the man.
Now his part is over.
Now starts the craft of the father.
I know you have a little life in you yet.
I know you have a lot of strength left.
I know you have a little life in you yet.
I know you have a lot of strength left.
I should be crying, but I just can't let it show.
I should be hoping, but I can't stop thinking:
All the things I should have said, but I never said.
All the things we should have done, but we never did.
All the things I should have given, but I didn't.
Oh, darling, make it go,
Make it go away!
Give me these moments back.
Give them back to me.
Give me that little kiss.
Give me your hand.
(I know you have a little life in you yet.
I know you have a lot of strength left.
I know you have a little life in you yet.
I know you have a lot of strength left.)
I should be crying, but I just can't let it show.
I should be hoping, but I can't stop thinking
Of all the things I should have said, but I never said.
All the things we should have done, but we never did.
All the things that you needed from me.
All the things that you wanted for me.
All the things that I should have given, but I didn't.
Oh, darling, make it go away.
Just make it go away now.
11 Rubberband Girl (04:37)
See those trees
Bend in the wind
I feel they've got a lot more sense than me
You see I try to resist
A rubberband bouncing back to life
A rubberband bend the beat
If I could learn to give like a rubberband
I'd be back on my feet
A rubberband hold me trousers up
A rubberband ponytails
If I could learn to twang like a rubberband
I'd be a rubberband girl
A rubberband girl me
A rubberband girl me
Oh I wanna be a rubberband girl
When I slip out
Of my catapult
I gotta land with my feet firm on the ground
And let my body catch up
A rubberband bouncing back to life
A rubberband bend the heat
If I could learn to give like a rubberband
I'd be back on my feet
A rubberband hold me trousers up
A rubberband ponytails
If I could learn to twang like a rubberband
I'd be a rubberband girl
A rubberband girl me
A rubberband girl me
Oh I wanna be a rubberband girl
Give like a rubberband
Twang like a rubberband
Snap like a rubberband
Rub-a-dub-a-dub-a-dub
Rub-a-dub-a-dub
Rub-a-dub
One rubberband won't keep you up
Two rubberbands won't keep you up
Three rubberbands won't keep you up
Here I go......(aDLib)
.... Yeah!
One rubberband won't keep you up
Two rubberbands won't keep you up
Three rubberbands won't keep you up
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