The video stars actress/musician Jena Malone (Into the Wild, Pride & Prejudice, Donny Darko) with a cameo by singer/songwriter Henry Wolfe. Shot on 8 mm film in the hills of Echo Park, LA´s new bohemian hub, and drenched in golden light, the video recalls the romantic quality of the great films of the 1970s -- a perfect fit for Harper´s classic sounding folk-rock Love song written to a friend.
Directed by Benjamin Kutsko.
This is beautifull.
But this guy seems to be very influenced by Old Simon & and Garfunkel work.
compare melodies of The Dangling Conversation "and you read your Emily Dickinson" with
harper´s "And she loves a Tulsi garden" of this song.......exactly the same.
But this is very beautifull.....
I Love S & G early work
I think it´s mainly the fact that it´s doubled (perhaps autotuned), which is a technique Mr. Simon senior amply employed in the sixties. I think it suits the mood of the song.
However, I don´t agree that it´s Paul Simonesque lyrically and musically except for the Travis picking but I´m a minority and I will be democratically overruled I guess.
How can Harper not be influenced by his own Dad? I know I am, whether I like it or not! I´m also turning into him :-)
Ian Sep-06-2010, 04:39 GMT USA - United Staates America
Your father or Harper´s Danny?:) I always thought it unreasonable that Julian Lennon attracted so much negative attention over the fact that he sounded so much like John. Lennon Sr after all influenced a whole generation of musicians,so why shouldn´t Julian have a piece of that action. Julian,and indeed Harper,have even more right to that influence as their father´s blood flows in their respective bodies.
Harper´s guitar parts remind me of a younger finger style folk rock picker called Paul Simon.
Well being the son of Paul Simon having traces of his Dad´s guitar style is not a bad thing. In fact Harper himself admitted he found his dad to be a great player top play with.
I completely agree with Thierry. This is EXACTLY what I thought when I heard it for the first time, and the second, and the third, etc....: indeed The Dangling Conversation line is 100% copied into this song. Doesn´t matter, it´s a nice song. Although the singing qualities of Harper (live) are not that OK in my opinion. Of course, if you rerecord again and again, you eventually get a nice singing result...
True. He didn´t inherit his father´s voice and that line does derive from The Dangling Conversation melodically. Also, there´s some Emily references but didn´t someone else write the lyrics? But I stick to my view that the gist of the song is not very Paul-like; the I-II-V progression(C-Dm-G7) -I guess- wouldn´t appeal to Paul Simon´s taste. I like it though. Even the dylanesque vocals.
