Why Fast Car is Sadder Than you Thought (tracy chapman-fast car)
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- Опубликовано: 25 апр 2021
- If you want to know how to write a good sad song there are few better songs than Fast Car by Tracy Chapman. In this video look at what songwriting techniques make this song so sad and learn how to write a ballad. Fast car was released in 1988 and was No.6 on the Billboard charts.
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I also noticed how she changes thru the song. First, she feels responsible for her father and sympathizes with him since her mom left them both because he was a drunk who wasn’t working. Then when she has kids and her partner is an unemployed drunk…she is seeing life from her mother’s side and tells her partner to leave…but she doesn’t leave her kids
Nice insight Jenn, cheers.
WOW THAT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE. I NEVER SAW IT AS SHE MOVING INTO HER MOTHER'S ROLE UNTIL NOW
more I get old, the sadder the song gets.
I was an 18 year old metalhead guy when this came out. I felt her desperation to get out of her situation. I felt that same desperation. It made me cry then and now at 52, with a wife, grown kids, money in the bank and 3000 miles from where i started it still makes me cry. Im no longer in that position but i can still connect to moment though this song. I will always love this.
I have the same story as you my guy. this song is genius and timeless
DAMN
I thought this song was a masterpiece even before watching this breakdown. Now I consider it the work of a genius.
Which is why it's so difficult to cover correctly. As a musician, I can vouge for that!
I thought it was genius the first time I heard it and all these years later it still is.
Many of the greatest songs are about longing, yearning, nostalgia, about the fragility of life and everything a lifetime has to give.
These songs open the heart and go the deepest..
true that, I think Fast car is a prime example.
Yesss so true
Bob Seger made nearly an entire career out of nostalgia. He's also one of my favorite songwriters.
I was listening to this song in my car on the way home crying. Good music is about emotion, good and bad. One of the all time best songs.
This video helped me reach an epiphany. I LOVE me some Tracy Chapman but I never did like this song. Always took it to be on the eerie side. But it was and still is *everywhere* - I know every word and every riff. I'm not much of a guitarist but I can sure play THIS song. So watching and listening to this video, the more I hear these interpretations of the lyrics and accompanying melodies, chords etc. the more entranced I'm becoming with the song than I ever have been before. Mid-way through the video, I paused it and sang a line from the bridge and started to cry right as I got the to "feeling that I could be someone...be someone.....be someone" line. All this time, the reason I never liked it is because of how it reminds me -the optimist-turned-defeatist vibe of it moreso than any specific scenario in the lyrics- of my own damn life. Sorry for rambling. Thanks for listening. Stay determined everyone
I'VE HEARD THIS SONG COUNTLESS TIMES (TOP 5 FAVORITE SONGS) & STILL OVERLOOKED SO MANY OF THESE THINGS EXPLAINED INCLUDING TRACY BEING PREGNANT & WANTING TO ESCAPE THE HUSTLE & BUSSLE TO MOVE TO THE SUBURBS.
ALSO HOW THE START OF THE SONG WAS HER OPTIMISM OF THE FUTURE & AT THE END HER DEFEATIST ATTITUDE BY SINGING "I GOT NO PLANS, I AIN'T GOING NOWHERE / SO TAKE YOUR FAST CAR & KEEP ON DRIVING", & THE HALF VERSE AT THE END WHERE SHE CHANGES THE " *WE* " IN "WE GOT A FAST CAR" TO " *YOU* " GOT A FAST CAR, THEN *YOU* "GOTTA MAKE A DECISION". WOW. BRAVO SIR!
First time hearing this song I cried
I was actually listening to the lyrics and realizing how sad it was especially how she ends up having the life her mother had with her father
It’s in my depression playlist
I’m only halfway through this video, and already I can say this is one of the best exegeses of a song I’ve ever seen. Thanks for this!
Cheer ferra51, really appreciate that. Glad you got some value from it 👍
this is the best songwriting channel I’ve come across so far
cheers Moses, glad you got some value from it.
My fried and depleted seratonin cells can't handle this song without crying
Amazing. This is one of your best breakdowns if not your best one. You most certainly put a lot of effort into this and it’s great. She sure created magic. It will stand the rest of time. Keep up the good work. 👍👍👍👍
Cheers Lee, glad you enjoyed it.😀
Thanks for a great video. I love music but don't understand it from a technical perspective. Your breaking down of the basic elements of the song and they interact to elicit emotion is very thoughtful, insightful and helpful, allowing me to understand it in a multifaceted way.
I very much agree with your interpretation. Chapman once said that this song : "... basically it’s about a relationship that doesn’t work out because it’s starting from a wrong place.” This makes sense, as the protagonist is so consumed by desperation and a need to escape her present reality that she latches onto a dream. She continues to hold onto that dream until she realizes that no matter her position in life, her partner is not who she thought he was. He himself is lost and unable to be a husband and father. A poignant story, and unfortunately, not an uncommon one.
Cheers firstamendmenttests and well said👍👍
The idea that he has a fast car is a nice bit of character development not to mention foreshadowing. It suggests his bad boy-ness is what attracted her to him in the first place but then she had dreams they could settle down and forge a more stable life. Brilliant song and brilliant lesson. Thank you.
Excellent
This is really incredible how you have so so many things to share! Keep going!
cheers Prashasti, plenty more to come.
Thank you for learning us the knowledge
No worries Kaka, glad you found it useful.
Why this chanel is so underrated?
cheers Diego.
Excellent 👏🏾
Really good man. ty and Merry Christmas.
cheers Michael, a belated merry christmas to you too and a happy new year.
Wow great analysis, next level vid
👍👍👍really appreciate that.
This is a really amazing analysis
Cheers mgaallen, really appreciate it. Such a great tune, just hope I did justice.👍
Wow that was really good insight
Cheers D, glad you enjoyed it 👍
Who knew bono had a RUclips channel? ;)
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How did i miss this?
Cheers Perry old. The yt algo gives this vid no love😮
es una cancion triste pero el coro me alegra no se por que
estoy de acuerdo
As anyone else in the comment section been in her situation and put pen to paper. Put your song title down and we’ll guess how it plays out.
Not me personally but my sister was. She got two beautiful kids out of it so there was a silver lining and she's doing well these days. Wrote a song about it called 'Ghost'.
She grew up minutes from me
There are a lot of people in Cleveland, you're not special.
@@jltc008 there’s a lot of people who are cynics, you’re not special
Ask black ppl what this song is about...
SUCH A BRILLIANT ANALYSIS, THANK YOU!
Cheers @THEBIGGESTSCUMBAG really appreciate the comment. Glad you found it useful👍