Now, that's just funny.

[ysobelle]

 So Purple Rain is on TV. It occurs to me I actually have no idea if I've ever actually seen the whole thing before. Twenty four years is a long time, after all. But you know what the funniest thing is? I don't ever remember seeing one particular song before. That song is, of course, "Darling Nikki."

So here I am, 2008, and I'm watching it as I cut a deep red silk skirt, and I just stopped in my tracks. And I realised something really, really weird. 

When this movie came out, I hadn't yet changed my name-- but only by a year or two. While it was still fairly recent, and everyone threw the song at me with humorous leers, I still had no inner concept of, "Hey! That's MY NAME!" And tonight, watching with the closed captioning on, I finally, finally did. I finally thought, "Whoa. That's...weird." I finally had the connection I didn't have when two kids in my first-year class at college waited til I was walking down the mall towards Palm Court, and turned their speakers out to blast that song to the entire school as I passed.

It's taken all these years, but dammit, it's finally my song.

I hope Prince doesn't mind.

Comments

[morriganswitch.livejournal.com]

what was your name before?

[laurensa.livejournal.com]

Many, many moons ago, (like the 1950's) a group called The Bachelors released a song called "My Diane". My mom and dad had the single, and I claimed it as my own.
Though it always vaguely bothered me that it wasn't "My Dianne" instead...
These days, living so far from long-time friends and family, I respond faster to Laurensa than Dianne. Nobody in PA calls me Dianne.

[ysobelle.livejournal.com]

I SO know how that goes. How many people do we know whose real names we haven't a clue about?

[peacockharpy.livejournal.com]

*resolves to no longer sit in hotel lobbies with you* ;)

[ysobelle.livejournal.com]

I love you.

Oh! Did you see Andy's written a tell-all???