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Gender differentiation songs!

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lawyer said on January 19, 2004 19:09:

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tevensso (moderator) said on January 19, 2004 19:41:

The title says it all. Men and women rarely understand each other.

n-Somnia said on January 19, 2004 20:45:

I couldn’t have said it any better myself. It’s a lyric thing, really.

Max-Tob said on January 19, 2004 20:54:

“You don’t unterstand me” lyrics are my favorite from all Per & Marie & Roxette stuff! They are very deep and anyone who is in a long term relationship knows what it means... “You don’t...” and “The Weight” lyrix are matestepieces not only because of their objective charm, but because they both bring out the moments of crisis in a relationship - that kind of fight when you don’t want to scream and do anything really bad because you’re just down and you feel so much love and nostalgia and sadness and dissapointment and resignation; then you feel very lonely because you realize that one can not carry the other’s burden...one can only speak for oneself...and nothing can’t be done when the other one doesn’t want to...
So, it’s ovious to me that is not about gender differences here...it’s about relationships and usual dissapointment that sometimes people experience...It’s nonsense to talk here about gender...It’s about people living together (girls and boys, or boys and boys, or girls and girls etc.)

DaminehGessle said on January 19, 2004 23:54:

Even the title brings tears to my eyes. Damn!

DaminehGessle said on January 20, 2004 00:05:

This is how I feel everytime I listen to this song or someone talks about it:

http://www2.dailyroxette.com/smalltalk/thread.php/8430

I just remember walking down the halls singing the song. I don’t want to remember that. I DON’T WANT TO REMEMBER THAT!

coyboyusa said on January 20, 2004 13:23:

i thinbk the radio person meant gender ambiguity in songs. songs that don’t actually refer to one gender but its implied. melissa etheridge does this n her songs, you don’t understand me is a good example...who is the you..is it a he or a she...its either

MiracleMan said on January 20, 2004 18:32:

The video looks like Ingmar Bergman directing a play by Frederico Fellini. Or is it the other way around?

Jud (moderator) said on January 20, 2004 18:42:

the video looks like a tribute to Ingmar Bergman’s “the 7th seal” (den sjunde inseglet), have you seen the film?

MiracleMan said on January 21, 2004 00:24:

Love that film! It’s a classic of world cinema. Great, great movie.

lawyer said on January 22, 2004 09:41:

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Anarem said on January 22, 2004 10:58:

Is the Seventh Seal an English movie? Uh, no, it isn’t. It’s a Swedish classic, basically it’s about a man who plays chess against Death. If you saw Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey, they play Twister against Death. :-)

Here is more info:

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0050976/