Not a meme but a question

[maystone]

This was a Question of the Day over at Shakesville a while back, and it received some interesting answers. I thought I'd repost it here and on FaceBook (since I have a different flist over there).

If you were to have the good fortune of an admired singer/songwriter/lyricist offering to compose/sing a song just for you, by whom would that offer be made?

(If hearing impaired flisters, or anyone else, would prefer to answer what poet they would chose to write a poem just for them, please feel free to modify.)

I would want Leonard Cohen to compose it, and I think I'd like Loreena McKennitt to sing it. Or Tom Waits. It would depend on the song.

(I'm using this icon because it always reminds me of Cohen's song, Joan of Arc.)

OK, have at it, please.

Comments

[malterre.livejournal.com]

I'd like it written by the Killers, sampled by daft punk and performed by Alicia Keyes.

[petranef.livejournal.com]

At one time, the only answer would have been Paul Simon. But now...... I think maybe Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen. Or maybe Neko Case.

[clarionj.livejournal.com]

This is so hard ... Leonard Cohen--good choice :)

My first thought was the person I'd want to see perform most right now, which is Jack White, but I don't know if I'd want him writing the song about me (although, now that I'm thinking about it, he has songs like "Hotel Yorga" and the We're gonna be friends song ... ).

But my other thought was Lou Reed, since I was hugely passionate about him for a long time, and lyrically, he can be interesting. In each case, same singer. By tomorrow, I might think of someone entirely different!

Interesting!

[angelamermaid.livejournal.com]

Megon McDonough. She's so insightful.