Tonight I have ipod shuffle to thank for bringing me a song, and what a song it is. Wow. I know I've heard Kylie Minogue, the original artist, sing it before, but I don't think I've ever heard the Flaming Lips cover, at least not the way I'm hearing it tonight. So. Incredibly. Powerful. Have a listen to this studio performance or this live footage of the Flaming Lips singing:
Can't get you out of my head -- boy, your love is all I think about.
I can't get this song out of my head and I don't want to -- think I'll just put it on repeat as I go off to sleep tonight. As for the meaning behind the music, I have been grappling a bit of late with my tendency to obsess about men. Listening to this song tonight, what struck me is that it isn't anyone's love that I can't get out of my head -- because I haven't ever really experienced the love that I hear him singing about. I've never been able to let myself be that vulnerable -- so instead, it's the potential that I see in men to give me this love and the potential I have to love them that I can't get out of my head.
I think it's high time to change all that. Potential doesn't keep me warm at night, and I want the kind of love I hear in Wayne Coyne's voice.
Ok, so Chris Martin doesn't keep me warm at night either, and I don't think Coldplay works the same magic with this song that the Flaming Lips do, but my God, he is beautiful...
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