I'm imagining Usagi setting the entire thing to 'shuffle' now and then, just so she can listen and discover without being prejudiced by names and cover art.
And then on one track, she hears an intro of beautifully sorrowful synthesizer strings, followed by the intensely emotional voice of Ronan Harris...
It's a short song, but at the end, I can see Usagi in tears. It's an emotional assault on the heart, but one that holds within it a kernel of wisdom.
And yet, despite the terrible picture it paints, she listens to the rest of the music of VNV Nation. The anger, the thirst for justice, and the hopes and dreams for better futures.
And looking at the cover art, she finds that she likes the style - the stark chiaroscuro and clean, dramatic lines of the Art Deco edifices. She starts to look into it more and discovers Erte and it is all downhill from there.
Even though Art Deco tends to be a very masculine style, the images it presents of a strong, (and most importantly) prosperous and hopeful future, where people create marvelous and beautiful machines and the equally beautiful cities that hold them. (The fact that Erte tended to make such glamorous portraits of beautiful women in the Art Deco style helps a lot.)
And then on one track, she hears an intro of beautifully sorrowful synthesizer strings, followed by the intensely emotional voice of Ronan Harris...
Quote:The paths that I once tread have all but gone
Only embers now smoulder where bridges once burned
I feel alive and yet I fear what may happen now
I know I can't return
And I hear me say again, "Oh, let me not return."
Damn the illusions of redemption and the hopes that held me here
I will oppose all that would befall me, with this rage inside of me
I'll defy what I would become
The solitude and anger that do battle inside me
Will always guide me to the answers that I know I may not see
They are the bonds that hold me tighter, they are the chains that weigh on me
One day I know they will be gone
Can I start again and erase this pain
By casting doubts into the waters,
Asking judgement of the sea?
Though fortune may guide to the fools
I have no wish to be free
Until I am gone.
It's a short song, but at the end, I can see Usagi in tears. It's an emotional assault on the heart, but one that holds within it a kernel of wisdom.
And yet, despite the terrible picture it paints, she listens to the rest of the music of VNV Nation. The anger, the thirst for justice, and the hopes and dreams for better futures.
And looking at the cover art, she finds that she likes the style - the stark chiaroscuro and clean, dramatic lines of the Art Deco edifices. She starts to look into it more and discovers Erte and it is all downhill from there.
Even though Art Deco tends to be a very masculine style, the images it presents of a strong, (and most importantly) prosperous and hopeful future, where people create marvelous and beautiful machines and the equally beautiful cities that hold them. (The fact that Erte tended to make such glamorous portraits of beautiful women in the Art Deco style helps a lot.)