I wrote the following in response to a person in a Facebook group who wrote that they think her new album is a response to a childhood of being abused. i think more people should read my response, if i may say so myself. "I don’t think she was abused particularly as in any way other than the abuse that all females live within given the repression of female. As she has repeatedly said her songs are NOT autobiographical, I don’t think she is a lier when she says they are, instead, universal concepts she is exploring, and again I don’t think she is lying when she reiterates to people who interview her asking the same questions, is her work process is underpinned by her principle that she tries very hard to NOT REPEAT herself even though she repeats those very words again and again to the ignorant few who have the greatest privilege to interview her. She is an artist, her medium are words and sounds. artists absorb culture and reflect that to their audience. Pj Harvey is a medium we use to understand ourselves, not her. We don’t know who she is apart from brilliant, a genius, why? Because she speaks to us and we feel, and to paraphrase pj Harvey, that’s all she wants is for us to feel or to come away feeling inspired in some way. That’s why we worship her, think she is a god because she is our spark, because she gives us life, enlivens us, that is, inspiration. The words that follow are your freedom. Inspiration to live, to choose, to be free. That is why she is god, she creates our freedom by reflecting ourselves to us. And I hope she’s strong, I believe she is. As she gives me strength when I need it. And I hope that giving is free for her and that I don’t take because I can only imagine that would be draining, tiring, and I don’t want her to get tired or to not be.
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I wrote the following in response to a person in a Facebook group who wrote that they think her new album is a response to a childhood of being abused. i think more people should read my response, if i may say so myself. "I don’t think she was abused particularly as in any way other than the abuse that all females live within given the repression of female. As she has repeatedly said her songs are NOT autobiographical, I don’t think she is a lier when she says they are, instead, universal concepts she is exploring, and again I don’t think she is lying when she reiterates to people who interview her asking the same questions, is her work process is underpinned by her principle that she tries very hard to NOT REPEAT herself even though she repeats those very words again and again to the ignorant few who have the greatest privilege to interview her. She is an artist, her medium are words and sounds. artists absorb culture and reflect that to their audience. Pj Harvey is a medium we use to understand ourselves, not her. We don’t know who she is apart from brilliant, a genius, why? Because she speaks to us and we feel, and to paraphrase pj Harvey, that’s all she wants is for us to feel or to come away feeling inspired in some way. That’s why we worship her, think she is a god because she is our spark, because she gives us life, enlivens us, that is, inspiration. The words that follow are your freedom. Inspiration to live, to choose, to be free. That is why she is god, she creates our freedom by reflecting ourselves to us. And I hope she’s strong, I believe she is. As she gives me strength when I need it. And I hope that giving is free for her and that I don’t take because I can only imagine that would be draining, tiring, and I don’t want her to get tired or to not be.
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