#your woman - white town

[cloudabserk]

listening to Your Woman by White Town and naruto and sasuke

[urdoodlebro]

Well I guess what you say is true, I could never be the right kind of girl for you, I could never be your woman.

[cancerian-woman]

Not Candice king taking a whole week to speak on the Palestine issue and still defending the wrong side😭😭😭embarrassing

I don’t speak on the actors fr because I know how the fans act but lol for this one time.

tbh no offense either but the tvd cast isn’t known for speaking out on topics so I’m not really sure what people were expecting from any of them an example being that none of them not one single person had ever publicly defended Kat from racism she faced from the fans or Julie/Caroline Dries/Carina Mackenzie or even Kevin Williamson (bc he tends to get a pass…) A passing story in the fandom now is that “Ian (or Nina) saved Kat’s job” and there’s never been any proof to show that either of them stuck their neck out to defend or help Kat. That and jumping to claim either of them did something versus discussing Kat or Bonnie directly is white saviorism. But again there’s NO PROOF of either of them doing that. Yes, Ian discussed the Bamon ban and ideas he had with Kat (like other male actors but that’s all he did)

Hell some of them unknowingly fed into Kat/Bonnie’s mistreatment (looks at Paul/Phoebe from the s6 era with their Bonkai Twitter comments…)

Kat’s an entire humanitarian and has been one for years. Shes always speaking and creating awareness for issues in the world. Anybody can go to her page and see that even then she was still dragged for what she’s recently said and labeled performative. Michael Malarkey has constantly been vocal on Palestine as well.But back to the point lol. The tvd cast is not and was never known to speak on topics. I really don’t know what the people were expecting of them…there’s very little awareness in that cast

[lovelorngirl]

when you get this, list 5 songs you like to listen to, publish them, and send this ask to the last 10 people on your notifs ☆

YAY AGAIN (i love music)

Your Woman by White Town 🦴

No. 1 Party Anthem by Arctic Monkeys 🍻

The First Taste by Fiona Apple 🛏

I Kicked A Boy by The Sundays 🐚

Heaven or Las Vegas by Cocteau Twins 🎰

i kicked a boy is the funniest song name ive ever heard

[norma-jean-monster]

apparently this song is from a producer called white town? A British-Indian man known as white town? And its not a blur or gorillaz song? inch resting.

[magentagalaxies]

i'm a woman but only in the way where sometimes a male musician from the late 90s/early 00s decides to write from a woman's perspective but that's not immediately clear until they say "i'm a woman" in the lyrics and you immediately google whether the musician is trans and the answer is no but you've already decided to relate to the song in a trans way anyway

[mashmouths]

just got my first sugar baby solicitation, i've made it big 🤩

[hauntingblue]

Toranaga's son is so funny. Failson 🫵🏻

[apexious]

this is so "jack telling night swan he's leaving to join the just dancers" coded

[evergreen-collections]

day four of song recommendations

todays song is Your Woman by White Town!

love this song. I've always loved haunting melodies and synth noises and voicebox-vocals, and this has all of that!!!

[amikye]

Overheard some lads discussing how Dua Lipa sampled Your Woman by White Town. I’ve no idea which Dua Lipa song it was, but the tune they were humming was definitely from Your Woman. The funny part is that they also thought that was sampled from the Imperial March in Star Wars. Yeah it’s the same rhythm, but not the same notes

[my-chaos-radio]

Release: January 13, 1997

Lyrics:

Just tell me what you've got to say to me

I've been waiting for so long to hear the truth

It comes as no surprise at all you see

So cut the crap and tell me that we're through

Now, I know your heart, I know your mind

You don't even know you're being unkind

So much for all your highbrow Marxist ways

Just use me up and then you walk away

Boy, you can't play me that way

Well, I guess what you say is true

I could never be the right kind of girl for you

I could never be your woman

I could never be your woman

I could never be your woman

I could never be your woman

When I saw my best friend yesterday

She said she never liked you from the start

Well me, I wish that I could claim the same

But you always knew you held my heart

And you're such a charming, handsome man

Now I think I finally understand

Is it in your genes? I don't know

But I'll soon find out, that's for sure

Why did you play me this way?

Well, I guess what you say is true

I could never be the right kind of girl for you

I could never be your woman

I could never be your woman

I could never be your woman

Oh, I could never be your woman

Well, I guess what they say is true

I could never spend my life with a man like you

Songwriter:

I could never be your woman

I could never be your woman

I could never be your woman

Oh, I could never be your woman

Irving Wallman / Bing Crosby / Prakash Mishra / Max Wartel

SongFacts:

"Your Woman" is a song by British music producer White Town. It was released in January 1997 as the lead single from the album Women in Technology. It features a muted trumpet line taken from a 1932 recording of "My Woman" by Lew Stone and his Monseigneur Band. The song peaked at No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart. Outside the United Kingdom, the single reached No. 1 in Iceland, Israel and Spain, peaked within the top 10 on the charts of at least 12 countries, and reached No. 23 in the United States.

In the booklet of their 1999 album 69 Love Songs, The Magnetic Fields' frontman Stephin Merritt described "Your Woman" as one of his "favourite pop songs of the last few years." In 2010, the song was named the 158th best track of the 1990s by Pitchfork.

Jyoti Prakash Mishra, White Town's sole member and the writer of "Your Woman", had garnered some notoriety within the United Kingdom's underground music scene in the years leading up to the song's mainstream release. In 1997, the song was heard by Mark Radcliffe (a BBC Radio 1 presenter at the time) who played it, helping Mishra gain much recognition in a short time.

Mishra has stated that the lyrics could stem from or be related to multiple situations. He says "When I wrote it, I was trying to write a pop song that had more than one perspective. Although it's written in the first person, the character behind that viewpoint isn't necessarily what the casual listener would expect".

Mishra wrote that the themes of the song include: "Being a member of an orthodox Trotskyist/Marxist movement. Being a straight guy in love with a lesbian. Being a gay guy in love with a straight man. Being a straight girl in love with a lying, two-timing, fake-arse Marxist. The hypocrisy that results when love and lust get mixed up with highbrow ideals." Mishra admitted that being signed to a major label (EMI) did not allow him to express creative control, and the loss of his anonymity due to the song's popularity drove him "mad".

The '>Abort, Retry, Fail?_' message that appeared on some inlay cards was explained by the artist: "Well, this cheerful message became a kind of shibboleth for me and sort-of characterises what's been going on for me the last few years." The song was created using free MIDI sequencing software for the Atari ST and a cheap multitrack cassette tape recorder.

The accompanying music video for "Your Woman" was produced in black and white silent film style. Most of the outdoor scenes were filmed in Derby.

In the video, there are numerous elements of acting, cinematography and editing that suggest an old fashioned film style. The exaggerated gestures of Chloé Treend, the hat wearing woman, helpless and fearful, and those of her quick tempered lover hint at the acting style from 1920s expressionist films. The ostensive metaphors, such as the use of hypnosis on the woman by the man or the recurring shots of crossroad signs bearing names of romantic relationship related attitudes, remind of the 1920s and 1930s efforts to express subjectivism in film.

The use of circular masks, as to emphasise focal points or for a mere elegant look, also belongs to the aforementioned period. At the point where the woman first enters the man's bedroom and in the final rope scene, match cuts are used in a manner resemblant of that from silent experimental films. Mishra can be seen for brief moments on television screens in the background.

There is also a scene where the woman closes the door on the man's arm, as she tries to escape from his advances. This is a direct reference to scene from Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel's surrealist film Un chien andalou (1928).

[wjbs-aus]

Hot take: reading into a musician's lyrics, for the sole reason of proving that they're queer, is Bad Actually and you should probably not do it.

[specific90saesthetics]

[transatos]

people have got to start filling out tests and forms before they can tell butches in their lives who they look like. holy shit