Yr Pop Questions Answered PART ONE

[mostlyconnect.livejournal.com]

I had an idea of doing a series of these? Let me know if it is unwelcome.

[Poll #907692]

(EDIT: I cannot edit the poll now but I meant the return train, w/ original boyfriend? Also plz to submit any other PRESSING POP QUESTIONS you can think of, LJ paid account has gone to my head)

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

i don't know this song but this idea is a brilliant one!

[mcarratala.livejournal.com]

I like the idea of the series, but I am dubious about this question. As far as I understand the song, she's in a long-distance relationship, fallen for another bloke, but her original boyfriend is arriving by train from KC because she hasn't had the bottle to tell him she's moved on. So why would she be getting on the train, either way?

[mcarratala.livejournal.com]

I don't know – if I'd come all the way from Kansas City (to wherever – Chicago or St Louis are the most obvious places to catch a train to, although you can go all the way to LA, still), I think I'd want to stop and see the sights. I may not have the romantic urgency of the characters in the song.
The position of the old boyfriend is the flip of the guy in the Box Tops' The Letter, whose girlfriend has decided she likes him after all, and he's so excited he's getting a plane because he ain't got time to catch a fast train.

[mcarratala.livejournal.com]

Other point about the song, of course, is that is addressed to the new boyfriend: do we trust Ms SL's account of what has been happening with the old chap?

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

The song is unequivocal about this - "I'll be back in the time it takes to break a heart." You can make up stories that she is lying, or lying to herself, but I can't detect the slightest shred of support for that in this song, which I love enormously.

How does it feel to treat me like you do? good/bad/discuss

[getbacknow.livejournal.com]

What do we need the least?:

-education
-thought control
-dark sarcasm in the classroom