I am absolutely in the same place with Fast Cars and was reflecting on it after listening to Jen Fulwiler's podcast epside this week. She was talking about Taylor Swift and playing a bit from a different podcast where the speaker was talking about her own connection with TS. Anyways, Jen was saying that connections in art are so much about the 'consumer' (or listener) making a deep connection to the piece and feeling seen or having our experience portrayed in the art, whether the artist intended that connection or not. And this reasonated with me with Fast Cars. Maybe because for the younger Gen X set we are just coming into a place in our life where we truly get "so I quit school, that's what I did" and "still gotta make a decision..."
I am absolutely in the same place with Fast Cars and was reflecting on it after listening to Jen Fulwiler's podcast epside this week. She was talking about Taylor Swift and playing a bit from a different podcast where the speaker was talking about her own connection with TS. Anyways, Jen was saying that connections in art are so much about the 'consumer' (or listener) making a deep connection to the piece and feeling seen or having our experience portrayed in the art, whether the artist intended that connection or not. And this reasonated with me with Fast Cars. Maybe because for the younger Gen X set we are just coming into a place in our life where we truly get "so I quit school, that's what I did" and "still gotta make a decision..."