I am back working on this blog site.

I am wondering if the imagery and this video’s ‘Debbie downer’ feel was very personal to Damien Rice. The ending of this video I also wonder if that was a personal message, for he drags this out even more than he drags out the rest of this song with these words space wide apart: “My mind__________My mind__________ ‘Til I find somebody new.” I hated that ending and dumped it from my cover. Now, maybe he just did not care how the public took this video or this song lyrics. Maybe, he was expressing his own deep hurt. And that he did accomplish. Although, I believe in the quality of this song, I wished he would had given the music and the video a little more something except that love is nothing more than drab shades and tints of brown. And I am not going into the wind thing blowing what appears to be his lost love around. Filming her hair floating around her would have added a lot of interest. Instead it look like it was hanging on for dear life.

I choose this song before seeing the video, also I chose this song before I read he never ever really, really, explained it, especially that title: The Blowers Daughter. That title makes me feel he was not concern with marketing his pain. The girl was never mentioned in the song. So who was that girl with the long hair desperate to find shelter? I do not know and this video made it obvious I should not care. It is a great song that should have been given a little more kindness. That is what I do in my cover.
I should mention that I am being a little to bold here. This is a very good song. Well written and well preformed. I am lucky I have this opportunity to complain but it not being what I expected.

Scott Von Holzen