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for pete's sake
Nov. 22nd, 2005 08:49 pmA minirant.
Enya's new album Amarantine came out today, and I eagerly anticipated buying it, as I am fond of pretty floaty relaxing music. Her songs are never terribly complicated. She sings about love and trees and moons and stars and being far from home and other such complex concepts. Her songs are usually in English, but occasionally she'll branch out into Latin or Spanish, or into some pretty-sounding Irish. If you can read the Irish (and I can, to some degree) you find, again, that her songs are about love and trees and moons and stars and being far from home (though the Irish songs tend to center more on family.)
English and Latin and Spanish and Irish are fine choices for languages to sing in, as one who is learned enough may do some independent research and translate the song (about the moons and stars etc.), since all those languages are reasonably well known and/or resources are available. In Amarantine, Enya takes a stab at Japanese (and I assume again she is singing about flowers and trees and love) but fully three of her songs are in Loxian, a language invented by Roma Ryan (her stunning lyricist.)
She has wandered into the "made-up language" territory with Elvish, which, despite being JRR Tolkien's invention, is still reasonably well-known. This is, of course, because JRR Tolkien is well-known, and if you happened to be a student of Quenya (or whatever the heck it is) you could translate her song, which is probably about moons and stars etc. However, no less than three songs on Enya's new album are in Loxian, a language not made up by a well-known author like Tolkien but by Roma Ryan herself!
So, if you would like to know what Enya is singing about, you must read Roma Ryan's book. Nice little marketing tie-in there, right?
Take my word for it. It's probably the moon and stars thing.
Enya's new album Amarantine came out today, and I eagerly anticipated buying it, as I am fond of pretty floaty relaxing music. Her songs are never terribly complicated. She sings about love and trees and moons and stars and being far from home and other such complex concepts. Her songs are usually in English, but occasionally she'll branch out into Latin or Spanish, or into some pretty-sounding Irish. If you can read the Irish (and I can, to some degree) you find, again, that her songs are about love and trees and moons and stars and being far from home (though the Irish songs tend to center more on family.)
English and Latin and Spanish and Irish are fine choices for languages to sing in, as one who is learned enough may do some independent research and translate the song (about the moons and stars etc.), since all those languages are reasonably well known and/or resources are available. In Amarantine, Enya takes a stab at Japanese (and I assume again she is singing about flowers and trees and love) but fully three of her songs are in Loxian, a language invented by Roma Ryan (her stunning lyricist.)
She has wandered into the "made-up language" territory with Elvish, which, despite being JRR Tolkien's invention, is still reasonably well-known. This is, of course, because JRR Tolkien is well-known, and if you happened to be a student of Quenya (or whatever the heck it is) you could translate her song, which is probably about moons and stars etc. However, no less than three songs on Enya's new album are in Loxian, a language not made up by a well-known author like Tolkien but by Roma Ryan herself!
So, if you would like to know what Enya is singing about, you must read Roma Ryan's book. Nice little marketing tie-in there, right?
Take my word for it. It's probably the moon and stars thing.
