I never said that I have to think anyone’s interpretation of a work of art needn’t be trivial and boring.But if you are saying that your meaning of the song is right and mine is wrong, then you are wrong.
This contrast tells her that she should not be in this relationship. The first verse:She is saying that she’s unsure of why she is in this relationship, but whatever it might be, it can’t be outweighed by the violence that she suffers at the hands of her partner. Jul 17, 2016 - Marlene on the Wall is, like most Suzanne Vega songs, is highly evocative.
When she talks about the danger zone, she is talking about the area where people are close to being truthful to one another.
"The renown rock singer talks about "The House of the Rising Sun" and "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood. Vega, who is from New York, found success in the US 2 years later with her album Bauhaus lead singer Peter Murphy included a song called " It is well known that the Marlene on the Wall in this song is a picture (poster, painting) of Marlene Dietrich. When they talk about writing this or that, it doesn’t tell the rest of us anything but how the work came to be. She explained in Marlene Dietrich was a German actress who became an international film star in the 1930s. And I hear this man’s voice saying, “You have lead many men to death with your body.” I was like “All right!” because I didn’t see anything, you know, I didn’t know who the guy was, who he was talking to.
@CSP Schofield – Excellent catch! "I stumbled onto this looking into the song, and it struck me that the references to soldiers ties in a third Marlene; Lili Marlene.
She’s been singing in the second person to her lovers, but here she switches suddenly to an introspective third person through the vale of Marlene Dietrich.The use of the soldier as a metaphor serves two purposes. It did well in the UK, but didn't get noticed in America. The photograph on the wall I’m singing about in the song, is one that someone had given me, back in the days when I was hanging out at Folk City. So thats it, and while all the Queens worship her, as do I, I’d always imagined the Marlene on that Wall was a identity-non-specific one, a name given to an anonnymous generic portrait of a non-specific entity that hung, unchanged for years, in at some Immunolgy Resistant Waiting Room Clinic as its gaze remained unchanged for many years as it records the rise and fall of every soldier fighting, but the only soldier now is me, I’m fighting things I cannot see, and jealously I thought it was about me somehow, or at least the relationship I had with an imagined Marlene on the Wall at an unknown clinic somewhere.I wouldn’t take Vega’s ideas any more seriously than anyone else’s. She moves beyond her dependence on dysfunctional relationships.
At this point—during the first refrain—this seems to be the extent of her changing: from one abusive man to another.Here she continues the effective but confusing second person point of view.
She is simply talking about process, not meaning. I don’t claim that my interpretation of the song is right, except in the sense that meaning is something that comes from the reader (listener, viewer) and not the writer. It might have been so-and-so down the hall.” So, I was curious to know what who ever he was talking to would say.Of course right then the picture came on and there’s Marlene Dietrich’s beautiful face in close-up. It shows that she is not talking about the start of the song, but rather the start of her adoration of Dietrich:So I turned on the knob and you get the little tiny dot in the middle of the screen. Thanks for pointing that out! First, it reinforces the violent subtext of the song. I changed your comment so it displays the video correctly. in the afternoon (ie not at work) by the butcher’s shop with the saw dust strewn (on the floor to soak up the blood-images of ‘I bled like a stuck pig’ as more than one woman has described it).
Produced by Lenny Kaye and Steve Addabbo, the songs feature Vega's acoustic guitar in straightforward arrangements.A video was released for the album's song "Marlene on the Wall", which went into MTV and VH1's rotations.
Because I have written extensively about the fact that it is the reader (viewer, hearer, etc) that defines what a piece of art means, then of course you are right about what it means.
I prefer to not to focus on the physical violence because the issue of loneliness is so much stronger.
Suzanne Vega’s Marlene on the Wall was one of the great pop songs of my youth, but its meaning was always murky to me.
And even if I am in love with you All this to say what's it to you Observe the blood, the rose tattoo Of the finger prints on me from you.
But it is the same basic dynamic.Nice exegesis. I used to work with a skydiver. If she leaves a violent man, she ends without a violent man. Guilt, regret, and a feeling he has committed a ‘crime’ (‘finger prints’, ‘evidence’, ‘resist’ etc) against her by not really loving her.
So how do I understand the song? If one is an artist, they are working all parts of their brains.
It always reminds me of Brel’s "Madeleine."
How does “rose tattoo” fit into your shallow dive of the song?…..Dietrich eh ?
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