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Rating: From our idols, it's known, we always expect the best.
Being the divine Kate a personal artistic dream (and not only) since I was 12, every time I hear about something new of hers, I rush to discover what she has come up with, especially since her presence on the scene has become quite sporadic over time, meaning since the phenomenal "Aerial" of 2005. Thus, this "Director's Cut" is a project revisiting pieces from "The Sensual World" (89) and "The Red Shoes" (93), and here arises the first inevitable consideration: a Kate fan, to buy (or download) an album with pieces likely still present in memory, expects the new version of the pieces to make them feel new, and thus listenable with renewed interest.
Is that so? In my opinion, no, or rather, not entirely.
In fact, what strikes (see pieces like "Lily", "The Red Shoes", "The Sensual World", but also "Song Of Solomon") is precisely the fact that all these great modifications are not there..it's about details but not the essence of the piece itself. So where are the surprises? Personally, I found them in "Moments Of Pleasure" (which is indeed much more intimate and concise) and in "Rubberband Girl", transformed into a Rolling Stones-like piece. The rest? I reiterate, in my opinion, is very similar to the originals and if there are differences, they lie in the details of the arrangements.
Perhaps there were changes in the lyrics, but in the overall economy of the pieces, I don't find it to be decisive, especially for those who are not native speakers and therefore do not immediately grasp the differences.
So, does this mean that the album is bad? No. Kate's music is not in question, nor is the beauty of these pieces, which remains.
What I'm wondering (as you might have guessed) is: but was this "Director's Cut" really necessary? And if pieces from the past had to be rearranged, why not go back and, say, revisit albums like "The Kick Inside" or "Lionheart"?
Having laid out and described my doubts, I remain a devoted lover of the enchanting Kate, and thus I close one eye, though, in honesty, I cannot give the highest score.
Come on with a new album of inéditos, Kate!!
Tracklist and Lyrics
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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