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Re: Stress (actual oTr content) and the Wall Street Journal
I agree Patty, it's a sort of a coming-to-grips with the reality we all fit
into. Personally I can't stand listening to the fake happy smiles type
music, because it's so hollow. The release for me comes from the music
facing reality head on, not avoiding it. It gives me inspiration to keep
going because I know there are others sharing my struggles. The music is
expressing something I know but am not able to express myself, in a way that
is beautiful.
Sarah
>From: Patty Teesdale
>Sobriqet said,
>"there is a lot of brutal truth, the kind that gives headaches,
>in otrs lyrics"
>
>PErhaps it is the actual soothing vocal technique that can relieve the
>strain of the world. Everyone knows there are problems, and every person
>lives through them daily. What some musicians have the gift to do is to
>take all the crap the world throws and make a comeback through passionate
>or perhaps passive music. No one can take away the junk we face daily, so
>why surround ourselves with fake and happy smiles type music? Otrs lyrics
>may not make a pretty picture, but they take the genuine struggling
>possibly religious individuals perspective on a dilutled and dead world.
>THey make the hell of life seem ok. The music says to me, " i know, I ve
>been there, and your gonna be ok. Lets sing and contemplate to ease the
>struggle. " the contemplative and lyrical prose of their stories inspire me
>to take things day by day and to slow down and hold still. The forward,
>lyrical truths are sang in a way that does not trouble me at all. It is a
>pleasure to float away with a lyricist who shares my beliefs, but is not a
>holy roller. Otr states facts and truth of human nature, and I love that
>they make themselves so vulnerable to us all. they are not afraid to show
>the failure and "human" side to the public. There lyrical truths blow me
>away. It is one of kind to see such honest and genuine truth in lyrics from
>a group that is "christian"
>
>"cause like all true believers, I am truly skeptical of all that i just
>said." Karin Berquist
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