{"id":987,"date":"2020-02-26T16:52:14","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T00:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/?p=987"},"modified":"2020-02-26T16:52:17","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T00:52:17","slug":"music-relationship-advice-or-cocteau-twins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/music-relationship-advice-or-cocteau-twins\/","title":{"rendered":"music: relationship advice or Cocteau Twins?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Quick quiz: who wrote &#8220;Intimacy is when we&#8217;re in the same place at the same time. Dealing honestly with how we feel, and who we really are. That&#8217;s what grown-ups do; that is mature thinking&#8221; ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A: noted relationship philosopher Elizabeth Fraser <em>sang<\/em> this in the exquisite &#8220;Half-Gifts&#8221;! (<a href=\"https:\/\/genius.com\/Cocteau-twins-half-gifts-lyrics\">full lyrics<\/a>). Read The Guardian piece &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2009\/nov\/26\/cocteau-twins-elizabeth-fraser-interview\">Elizabeth Fraser: the Cocteau Twins and me<\/a>&#8220;: the Cocteau Twins made their most nakedly beautiful music after Ms. Fraser was broken down by tensions and her failed relationship with band member Robin Guthrie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cocteau Twins - Half Gifts\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RUdZh29mcTk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>&#8220;Half-Gifts,&#8221; from the album Milk &amp; Kisses and the compilation Lullabies to Violaine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had grasped some of the lyrics, thought I thought she was saying &#8220;I have no friends&#8221; at the end. Her journey to partial intelligibility from the ineffable mystery of the songs on Blue Bell Knoll and earlier is interesting; there&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/cocteautwins.com\/html\/dynamine\/lyrics.html\">good collection of her comments on it<\/a>. The mystery lies in the incoherence, so you should only read fans&#8217; guesses at the lyrics of a song after listening to it over and over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As <a href=\"\/blog\/2006\/02\/music-of-course-cocteau-twins-b-sides.html\">I&#8217;ve said before<\/a>, Prince mentioned he listened to the Cocteau Twins and that&#8217;s all it took for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick quiz: who wrote &#8220;Intimacy is when we&#8217;re in the same place at the same time. Dealing honestly with how we feel, and who we really are. That&#8217;s what grown-ups do; that is mature thinking&#8221; ? A: noted relationship philosopher &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/music-relationship-advice-or-cocteau-twins\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":988,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions\/988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}