Erin and Chad discuss “Venus” by Sufjan Stevens
In honor of Earth Day…
Erin: Those Venus lyrics…OMG. I am glad you sent me that because I was about to watch a webinar about marketing and social media.
Chad: It’s like, Sufjan, your song about Venus is just a story about touching another person at Methodist summer camp? AND INCLUDES THE WORD HORNY?????
Erin: Okay, so instead of the webinar I will listen to Venus and see if the lyrics are right.
on the youtube video:
“Nico Muhly, and Bryce Dessner wrote a song cycle based on the 12 planets”
wait, how many planets are there?
(later)
the song actually has the word horny in it.
I’m kind of disappointed.
Also ‘sensitive thunderclap’ what a phrase.
Also Aphrogenia is a genus of the Aphroditidae family? Which are these cute guys:http://eol.org/pages/90/entries/34397498/overview
The song also references this sculpture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_Callipyge
And a pandero is a tambourine…
And Taurobolium: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taurobolium
Just in case the song made any sense to your before - NOW IT DOES NOT
