#Nina Simone - Let It Be Me

[skippindotts]

ITS FINALLY DONE IM GONNA COLLAPSE

[bluvlet]

I need to (remembers suicide jokes are bad for my mental health) draw Drew Dawson again.

[ivoryteacups]

lord, please dont let me be misunderstood

[his-quietus-make]

“I’m just a soul whose intentions are good / oh lord, please don’t let me be misunderstood” really is an anthem for autistic people.

(And the little known verse: “the words that I say are the words that I mean / oh lord, there is no subtext in between”)

[purusadivine]

I’m just a soul whose intentions are good

Oh Lord, please don’t let me be misunderstood..

[ausetkmt]

Nina Simone - Let It Be Me

“Stars”

Let It Be Me

1987

Simone first covered Janis Ian’s searing, mordant meditation on fame during her infamous set at the 1976 Montreux Jazz Festival; suffering from bipolar disorder, she goes through something like a mental breakdown during the performance. (The scene is a highlight of Liz Garbus’ Oscar-nominated documentary What Happened, Miss Simone?) This spine-tingling 1987 version—Simone’s best, most coherent rendition—was recorded live at Hollywood’s intimate Vine Street Bar & Grill for Let It Be Me.

Written by Ian when she was just 20, “Stars” is a potent critique of star-making machinery: The narrator is both a weary observer of fame, watching faded stars who live their lives in “sad cafés and music halls,” and a tragic figure undone by fame herself. Simone’s embittered, conversational phrasing transforms the song into a cosmically exhausted, stream-of-consciousness rant. She sounds so nakedly weary and afflicted with pathos, you worry she might not even make it to the last verse. But ultimately, Simone’s piano accompaniment builds to a rousing, show-must-go-on climax: “I’ll come up singing for you even though I’m down.” Break out the Kleenex: Few other songs in Simone’s arsenal can make you truly grasp the toll she paid for being alive and giving us her music. –Jason King

Listen: “Stars”

[emvisual]

Es viernes: cena y baile. La coreografía de hoy igual os provoca un trauma. Es Santa Esmeralda interpretando una versión de Don't let me be misunderstood, 

La buena es la original de Nina Simone, pero esta es mucho más divertida. Triunfó en todas las discotecas del planeta a finales de los 70

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXEc9x-OB8k

[stylistic-nightmare]

Nina Simone - Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood

[myrtaceaae]

Tagged by @sigaldry-of-thu 💗💗 thanks!! I love tag games

🎶✨when u get this u have to put 5 songs u actually listen to, publish. then, send this ask/tag 10 of your favourite followers (non-negotiable, positivity is cool) 🎶✨

Ok so this is horrible I struggled to choose, I have agonised (see the tags for my agonising)

1. Poy Veter Poy - Lay of Leithian The Rock Opera, as sung by Mikhail Potekhin & Vilena Sokolova

2. Little Girl Blue - Nina Simone

3. I'd Like To Walk Around In Your Mind - Vashti Bunyan

4. Some Kind of Carthy - Jessica Law (because I really can't choose, honourable mention to Unconventional)

5. The Sharpest Lives - My Chemical Romance

Tagging @maellor @luciphe-r @bullet-train-4-australia @theoscelosaurus @goodberrywine @quixoticanarchy

[shakespearerants]

ICH LIEBE DEN SOUNDTRACK SO SEHR!!!!!!

[oublietonorgueil]

Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood