But still there is no male skater who become oly champion skating to that music, am I right? The door is open )
That wasn't my point, and it's almost certainly not yours, either.
But still there is no male skater who become oly champion skating to that music, am I right? The door is open )
That wasn't my point, and it's almost certainly not yours, either.
IMO, legality.
IMO, legality.
Ah, okay.
Like C/T skating to Fallin' by Alicia Keys.... and falling.I realized how inappropriate it is to skate to a song that goes, "I've been here before, but always hit the floor" when I saw Megan Wessenberg's FS at Nationals a few weeks ago.
She fell.
As to the sexual standards there is a conflict of cultures in my opinion. Figure skating is an international sport with many cultures participating. And every culture has their own standards and nuances. Then how do we do on the international level? How do we define tolerance? By least restrictive, i.e. if something is OK in any participating culture then it must be accepted everywhere? Or the other way - the most restrictive? If something is offensive anywhere then it's not allowed everywhere else? Or the third option, which appears to be the one currently in place - enforcing the US standards all over.
For example - Zagitova's gala costume appears to be shocking to the American viewers, given the fact she is 15. I live in the US, so I am definitely infected by the US culture, so the costume is a bit odd to me too. However, I can see myself living back in Poland and then I would not be even capable of seeing any controversy. I would ask - what are the Americans talking about? And it appears there is no problem with it in Russia either.
I saw a kid skate to Summer of '69 dressed like a hippie. The song is NOT about the year. O dear. Another odd song choice is Hallelujah (the one from Shrek) the song is actually about battling drug addiction.
If it's good for Shrek then it's good for kids. In fact, I never knew it was about any drugs. Unless every song is about drugs. It is just a piece of wonderful poetry by Cohen.
It's not a song I would personally skate to. It's not really "inappropriate", just a curious choice. The Shrek version is one verse. The original 1984 or (most of the cover versions) have lyrics up for interpretation, and one interpretation is helping someone recover from drug abuse. Some say it's a song with serious sexual undertones (I don't hear that) or it's, all religious quotes. The song In the Arms of The Angel is definitely about a friend dying from a heroin overdose, the songwriter said so, and I've seen people skate to that. I'm sure there's way more inappropriate "dirty" songs people could pick.If it's good for Shrek then it's good for kids. In fact, I never knew it was about any drugs. Unless every song is about drugs. It is just a piece of wonderful poetry by Cohen.
Hallelujah is not about drugs from what I know. It's about the failure of a relationship.
"Cohen's lyrical poetry and his view that "many different hallelujahs exist" is reflected in wide-ranging covers with very different intents or tones, allowing the song to be "melancholic, fragile, uplifting [or] joyous" depending on the performer:[6] The Welsh singer-songwriter John Cale, the first person to record a cover version of the song (in 1991), promoted a message of "soberness and sincerity" in contrast to Cohen's dispassionate tone;[6] the cover by Jeff Buckley, an American singer-songwriter, is more sorrowful and was described by Buckley as "a hallelujah to the orgasm";[6][9] Crowe interpreted the song as a "very sexual" composition that discussed relationships;[6] Wainwright offered a "purifying and almost liturgical" interpretation;[6] and Guy Garvey of the British band Elbow made the hallelujah a "stately creature" and incorporated his religious interpretation of the song into his band's recordings.[6]
Canadian singer k.d. lang said in an interview shortly after Cohen's death that she considered the song to be about "the struggle between having human desire and searching for spiritual wisdom. It's being caught between those two places."[10] Former Barenaked Ladies frontman Steven Page, who sang the song at Canadian politician Jack Layton's funeral, described the song as being "about disappointing [other] people"
It's not a song I would personally skate to. It's not really "inappropriate", just a curious choice. The Shrek version is one verse. The original 1984 or (most of the cover versions) have lyrics up for interpretation, and one interpretation is helping someone recover from drug abuse. Some say it's a song with serious sexual undertones (I don't hear that) or it's, all religious quotes. The song In the Arms of The Angel is definitely about a friend dying from a heroin overdose, the songwriter said so, and I've seen people skate to that. I'm sure there's way more inappropriate "dirty" songs people could pick.
You mean the song that's simply titled "Angel" by Sarah McLachlan?
It's not a song I would personally skate to. It's not really "inappropriate", just a curious choice. The Shrek version is one verse. The original 1984 or (most of the cover versions) have lyrics up for interpretation, and one interpretation is helping someone recover from drug abuse. Some say it's a song with serious sexual undertones (I don't hear that) or it's, all religious quotes. The song In the Arms of The Angel is definitely about a friend dying from a heroin overdose, the songwriter said so, and I've seen people skate to that. I'm sure there's way more inappropriate "dirty" songs people could pick.
The poetry does not have one single defined interpretation, but opens ways to many interpretations, depending on the reader. In fact, poetry is never a technical manual with clear instructions. Sometimes it does not even have any interpretations at all. It just is.
No..see I'm wrong here it's All-Star.I think there are.. something like over a hundred stanzas all together. It could be about anything. But I've never thought it was about drugs.
Walking on the Sun which is also in the Shrek movie I believe does have several references to pot smoking.
Walking on the Sun which is also in the Shrek movie I believe does have several references to pot smoking.