This is a beautiful version of one of my favorite Sting songs. I'd like to discuss this scene at length, since it helps support some of my thoughts about Harriet, the "Christian" character on the show. For now, the song and the drama go together perfectly.
Thursday, October 26, 2006
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Wow! So they did commercialize the album ... and I thought it was going to be left alone by mainstream markets. Silly me.
But still, to put it on a TV show is a little heavy-handed, I think. It leaves me feeling a bit sick, like too much candy on Halloween night.
Whatever the relative merits of this Studio 60 use of the song, though, I too think this is a wonderful remake of "Fields of Gold." In fact, its as if the song was made for the lute. I'm not sure I'll be able to listen to the previous version now.
Like any worthy remake, such as Ryan Adams' "Wonderwall" for example, the second version completely recreates the song into something new. Both these remakes flush out something wholly other in the songs, making each darker (as with Adams) or somehow more doleful (as with Sting).
I'd be interested in more from you regarding what you see as the Christian aspects of the song. I've never seen these, relying instead on an interpretation of the song as a portrait of some sort of lover's, or lovers', dreamscape. And there's some Christian character on Studio 60? What's the deal?
This is what I wrote about the album from which the remake comes: Songs from the Labyrinth. Perhaps you'll find it insightful:
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"On Sting's Songs from the Labyrinth"
Oh, and I see in your tagline that you're a practicing Catholic. I think Sting is a 'lic himself, a fallen away sort of one though.
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