Good question

Crush

I've only had five really serious music crushes in my lifetime.

Sinead O'Connor, when I was a teenager. There was something about Sinead's tragic relationship with her own beauty that really touched me. That and she had the rare quality of meaningful lyrics in popular music.



Chrissy Hynde, after I saw this Pretenders video for Brass in Pocket. The innocent seduction and insight into the whys and wheres of it was too much to resist as a young college student.


Pretenders - Brass In Pocket from Roesje on Vimeo.

For a time, Dar Williams, in grad school. But, really, I was so in love, at the time, that noone was going to compete. So it's appropriate that Dar should sing the single most beautiful break-up song I have ever heard in my life.



Annie Lennox, after I heard this beautiful number on the Red, Hot, and Blue album. This song has been on my heart a million times since I last loved.



And, now, Leslie Feist. Secret Heart knocks me out every single time.



The older I get, the less beauty or brains or any of the rest mean much of anything to me.

It's heart that grabs me. Always has.

Now the question is who has a heart that can grab mine?

That's the answer I'm holding out for.

Pity

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And a dash of humility.

Maybe I underestimate the American people.