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Anthem for Getting Better.  [message #64307] Sun, 10 October 2010 04:52 Go to next message
DesDownunder is currently offline  DesDownunder

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I cam across this by accident, and was moved to tears by both the song and the performance.

The sheer drama of the performance is almost overwhelming because of its internal subtlety, its vulnerability, it's questioning, that somehow contains a sign of hope...a determination in a Mad World to survive.

If I were a young teen this clip would keep me going, and the comments on the end sustain that it does get better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dbygBuEBFk&feature=player_embedded

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Re: Anthem for Getting Better.  [message #64313 is a reply to message #64307] Sun, 10 October 2010 11:58 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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It is blocked in the UK, I fear


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Re: Anthem for Getting Better.  [message #64314 is a reply to message #64313] Sun, 10 October 2010 12:03 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Might I suggest that you do a youtube search for "Aiden Grimshaw Mad World"
as this does sometime bring up another posting of the song at YouTube which is bypassing the block.


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Re: Anthem for Getting Better.  [message #64315 is a reply to message #64307] Sun, 10 October 2010 12:16 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Try these:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_j01uL7LdY

Or

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq3tH685SuA

This one doesn't have the comments.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwfNexdaIdU


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Re: Anthem for Getting Better.  [message #64316 is a reply to message #64307] Sun, 10 October 2010 12:34 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Before watching Aiden's rendition I found this one the most moving.



Alex is too gentle.

She won a TV fame show with this among other songs. A very cute young lady, being an out gay woman had no effect on her popularity.

Aden seems to mean it with a hard edge



Interesting that this song was throughout Donnie Darko.

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Re: Anthem for Getting Better.  [message #64317 is a reply to message #64316] Sun, 10 October 2010 14:11 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I agree, Alex is too gentle, but she is singing a song heartfelt though it is.

Donnie Darko version is propelled by the editing, even though it is good.

Aiden does that rarest of things that seems to escape many seasoned artists today, he gives us a dramatic performance as if he was in the pivotal scene of an opera.

Consider this famous scene interpreted with no small amount of introspection and a gayer melancholy than is usually associated with the words.

One can almost hear the song, Mad World in his head, and the youth of today pleading for sanity whilst embracing the dreams and fears of reality with tragic resignation.

Yet through it all, drama, song and poetry, is beauty that encourages life to stay to seek truth and enlightenment - our only hope for sanity, whether we find them or not.


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Re: Anthem for Getting Better.  [message #64323 is a reply to message #64313] Sun, 10 October 2010 19:36 Go to previous message
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I thought Adam Lambert's was very good too!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEQyz0acKNo
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