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Music Appreciation

blm

(113,124 posts) Mon Apr 12, 2021, 05:59 PM Apr 2021

Must see: Jamel just posted reaction to Society's Child.

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Must see: Jamel just posted reaction to Society's Child. (Original Post) blm Apr 2021 OP

"Society's Child" still gives me goosebumps and tears. With this song and her other classic, Atticus Apr 2021 #1

Old enough to remember Leonard Bernstein gushing over blm Apr 2021 #3

society's child went top 5 where I lived....big hit there but not so much other places nt msongs Apr 2021 #2

Atticus

(15,124 posts)

1. "Society's Child" still gives me goosebumps and tears. With this song and her other classic,

Reply to blm (Original post)

Mon Apr 12, 2021, 07:03 PM

Apr 2021

"At Seventeen", Janis Ian literally reached into my heart and made me really think about what I already knew was the awful truth.

Her extraordinary gift went underappreciated because our society was not yet ready for the truth she told. She "went there" while others looked the other way.

blm

(113,124 posts)

3. Old enough to remember Leonard Bernstein gushing over

Reply to Atticus (Reply #1)

Mon Apr 12, 2021, 07:28 PM

Apr 2021

the composition and that she was just a 14yo child herself when she first wrote it. Just remarkable on every level.

msongs

(67,465 posts)

2. society's child went top 5 where I lived....big hit there but not so much other places nt

Reply to blm (Original post)

Mon Apr 12, 2021, 07:23 PM

Apr 2021

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