First Time Hearing Talking Heads - “And She Was” Reaction | Asia and BJ
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This was written basically about a friend on an acid trip!
Been there
Could of been shrooms as well! But yes, “she was” obviously tripping balls
@@Kurtiscott I'm a child of the 60s, adolescent of the 70s. Did live sound for bands from 79 to 84. Most of that on the road between 4 states in the Midwest. Hell of a ride!
@@Kurtiscott David Byrnes said acid in an interview. But yes, shrooms can absolutely have that effect!😂😂😂
Been there done that
David Byrne wrote this song and said it was about a girl he knew that used to take acid.
Makes complete sense to me 😂
That explains “…and she could see the highway breathing…” 😂
Correct!
This whole album is a hoot. Check out “Stay Up Late,” and “Road To Nowhere, and “(Nothing But) Flowers.” The Talking Heads was such a great group, one of those quintessential 80’s groups. I miss the 80’s!
Yes! Nothing but Flowers! One of my favorites.
Whoa,guys. Nothing But Flowers isn't on Little Creatures,it's on the Heads last album,Naked.
Love this album!!! "Stay Up Late" is a favorite!!!
according to song meanings, David Byrne says it's about a girl dropping acid near a Yoohoo factory. I would never have guessed.
Byrne tells that story so funny...i was going to see if anybody mentioned it🤣😂
That's why back in the days, MTV was so big on music & Talking Heads was a part of it 24/7/365.
I'm so glad I experienced MTV as a teen from the beginning. It was truly something of a cultural bond between millions and millions of people. There had never been anything like it or has there been anything like it since. People who didn't live through it don't fully understand how much it was a part of people's daily lives and the culture.
This is my funeral song... 😜 Seriously, I want this played for all my friends to party! 🥳
I can't decide, and when I think about it I start to come up with the most inappropriate or cheesy songs imaginable. (Like LeFreak, or the Wind beneath my Wings.But I do have 2 other ideas: 1)Tell everyone to imagine that they're dressing for Jimmy Hendrix's funeral and not mine. 2) Get one of met sisters to use my phone after the funeral to text everyone and thank them for coming. LOL I'm 62. I guess I should start to take this stuff seriously!!
Sounds like a proper wake.
party sounds great... when you will die...?
Personally, I am going with 'Road To Nowhere' at my funeral.
Asia & BJ, you'll love their "Life During Wartime", "Psycho Killer"(must be album version) "Take Me To The River"(Cover) and many more!!!
Yes to all those
I interpret this as being about her death. She was: she is no more. Her death is her awakening. It's describing her leaving her body (taking off her dress) and floating above the world. Byrne has said it was prompted by a friend's acid trip, but he wrote it to suggest a more general spiritual / mystical experience.
I get that feeling too. The tone shift and lyrics in the bridge (I think it might even be about suicide) and lyrics at the end really make you question if its just about an acid trip.
No idiot, the song is about a woman doing drugs.
That electric guitar at the end made the entire song for me. It clearly isn't the best guitar work, but the placing of it is spot on. :)
When this song came out I was early 30's and I was feeling right there with it. Only time in my life I felt absolutely in tune with the world
I no longer feel that way
Same here I was still in high-school but I really loved the 80's.
You need to hear and see more from them. They took New Wave Punk to an unique level.
The lyrics are just surreal. To me...what's she done? She's run off to her freedom. She's ecstatic about it. Like floating above it. on the highways. So yeah, a runaway. But in the best possible feeling of freedom you can imagine.
Until reality hits and she hits the ground.
No idiot. The song is about a woman doing drugs while laying in a a field near a Yoo-hoo drink factory. Has nothing to do with a runaway lol.
The Talking Heads have crazy lyrics in their songs!
I was very fortunate to see them live in Boston after they had a second album. A night club with only 300 seats. The second time I saw them was at the Berkeley school of music. Each concert was great and I’m just I glad that I was around at that time.
Wow! Lucky indeed.
I was at the Berklee show too,B’52s opened the show.
@@Kevvinm YES 👍 that was my first time hearing the B-52‘s. And then to have the Talking Heads on the same bill. That was an incredible show. The first time I saw the Talking Heads was at club Paradise run by the promoter don law I believe. It was a long time ago.
@@zenpuppy6025 I don’t know if you’re still in the Boston area , but The Paradise is still there and Don Law now runs live nation.
@@Kevvinm I left Boston in 1982 to work in healthcare in San Francisco. Now retired in Las Vegas. But I do go back often especially to visit Cape Cod.
This is a great song. The Talking Heads is one of my favorite bands. You should check out Psycho Killer and Burning down the House
I saw them live several times- what an awesome band! I always left the concert feeling like the world was a better place.
Some songs are written like this to just get people doing just what you're doing...talking about it 😀 and with a catchy tune..makes it stick!
My favourite Talking Heads song. Love it ❤
So fun! Thanks for reacting to Talking Heads again guys, they are a great band. Try “Road To Nowhere" next, you'll love!!
Always liked this song. Never thought about it's meaning. IDK, she's floating into the sky. Either on a trip or she had died.
Try 'Girlfriend Better' by this group.
It's about a girl that David Byrne knew that did drugs.
STOP MAKING SENSE ~ A DVD definitely worth having. One of the BEST recorded concerts ever!
David Byrne with Choir Choir Choir....."Heroes" Crazy good
"I used to know a blissed-out hippie-chick in Baltimore," recalled Byrne in the liner notes of Once in a Lifetime: The Best of Talking Heads. "She once told me that she used to do acid (the drug, not music) and lay down on the field by the Yoo-hoo chocolate soda factory. Flying out of her body, etc etc. It seemed like such a tacky kind of transcendence… but it was real! A new kind of religion being born out of heaps of rusted cars and fast food joints. And this girl was flying above it all, but in it too."
Drummer Chris Frantz said of the song, "It's a story about a woman who has the power to levitate above the ground and to check out all her neighbors from a kind of bird's eye view. And the guy who's writing the song is in love with her and he kinda wishes she would just be more normal and, like, come on back down to the ground [Laughs], but she doesn't. She goes floating over the backyard and past the buildings and the schools and stuff and is absolutely [upside-down] to him in every way."
According to David Byrne, who is the only writer credited on the track, this was written about a girl he knew who used to take LSD in a field next to the Yoo-Hoo drink factory in Baltimore. "Somehow that image seemed fitting, the junk food factory and this young girl tripping her brains out gazing at the sky," he told Q magazine in 1992. "But it wasn't a drugs song at all and I don't think people took it that way. I think it gives the impression of a spiritual or emotional experience, instantaneous and unprovoked. The sublime can come out of the ridiculous."
David Byrne writes poetry, much the same as Jim Morrison, Paul Simon, John Lennon, .... Sappho ...
They’re such a great group! Love David Byrne as an interesting eccentric bandleader
Wife here..., The Talking Heads were a HUGE part of early MTV...!!!...I think this is a song about her death (possibly)...Definately could be a runaway or sleeping by highway
I’m in New Mexico and I love the Talking Heads! #teamAsia However BJ cracks me up!
Their best song, IMHO...they were constantly on MTV...the song is about being high...
Yay! The Talking Heads tend to get overlooked for some reason on reaction channels. But they were good and popular. This is a more mainstream pop song from them. It almost sounds like it could have come from a more typical new wave band like The Cars. As for the song meaning ... she's high and tripping ... flying out of her body.
And she was. Just was. I always interpreted it as her meditating and reaching a sense of enlightenment that allows her to experience life with a freed detachment. She's aware but floating above it. Lucy in the sky with diamonds but not with chemical aids. Just absolute freedom.
This song was big, as many other Talking Heads songs. Burning Down the House was a big party song. This one is fun and light..love it.
David Byrne, the writer, said he knew a "hippie-chick" who told him she used to do acid & lay in the field by the Yoo-Hoo factory in Baltimore & fly out of her body. He's describing her trips.
I love that song and I love Talking Heads. She was tripping. That band is supremely smart and good. She didn't have to be on drugs. I love the imagery.
They helped save the 80's for me
Hint. She moved the world herself. There are only two things seventies to eighties music was ever all about. Three if you include politics.
Yesss! Finally...thank you so much! She is as she was - forever seeing the world through a new lens.
Probably the best road trip, West Side Chicago - Phoenix. I'm a Talking Head fan and their music felt good from I-55 to I-40.
The song is about a woman on LSD in a field outside of a yoo.hoo factory. She was a friend of someone in the band.
.....and by someone in the band you men lead singer David Byrne.
She took some LSD and now the world is moving all around 🎸🎶🌎
I used to know a blissed-out hippie-chick in Baltimore," recalled Byrne in the liner notes of Once in a Lifetime: The Best of Talking Heads. "She once told me that she used to do acid (the drug, not music) and lay down on the field by the Yoo-hoo chocolate soda factory. Flying out of her body, etc etc. It seemed like such a tacky kind of transcendence… but it was real! A new kind of religion being born out of heaps of rusted cars and fast food joints. And this girl was flying above it all, but in it too."
SHE was in the Sky with Diamond Lucy.
Talking Heads are one of my favourite bands Love for sale, City of dreams, Slippery people all bangers
Sound of the highway is a metaphor for a city or suburb.
My interpretation is they guy is crushing on the girl next door. She was everything amazing to a young kid.
Who knows? 🤷🏻♀️
David Byrne described the lyrics of “And She Was” as being about a girl he knew who used to take acid in a field near a factory, where she would feel a sensation of flight.
Who knows? Try you know, the person who WROTE the damn song?
"I used to know a blissed-out hippie-chick in Baltimore," recalled David Byrne in the liner notes of Once in a Lifetime: The Best of Talking Heads. "She once told me that she used to do acid (the drug, not music) and lay down on the field by the Yoo-hoo chocolate soda factory. Flying out of her body, etc etc. It seemed like such a tacky kind of transcendence… but it was real! A new kind of religion being born out of heaps of rusted cars and fast food joints. And this girl was flying above it all, but in it too."
Definitely could be about an acid trip. But, it might be that she is leaving a bad situation without telling anybody. No time to tell him about what she's done and she joins the world of missing persons.
It's about an acid trip.
This song is about a concept called Astral Projection.
Commonly called an "out of body experience".
No, it's about a woman who was doing LSD.
he's got some freaky songs so don't try to figure too much...I wasn't really into New Wave but this here and a few others ‼‼ was great music, my brother seen them in the 70s in the UK before they made it big
I like this band. I did karaoke their song "Burning Down The House" once and it was fun! "Take Me To The River" "Psycho Killer" "Road To Nowhere" (this song was in the 1987 film Little Monsters with Howie Mandel and Fred Savage). If you decide to watch it, cool :D Nice reaction guys. I'm excited for your Poltergeist reaction tomorrow.
The legendary jazz trumpeter Miles Davis loved Talking Heads
When we (old people) first listened to our music, it was on the radio. No internet. We didn't even have the ability to pause the damn song! We also didn't feel the need to disect and analyze the song. All we knew was did we like the song or not. What did this or that mean? Who the hell cares. Can't even remember if you either of you said you liked it or not???
You should give them a few tries. The Talking Heads are a band that grow on you. They experiment with a lot of different instruments, rhythms, etc. They are artsy but fun and deep. Maybe a more accessible song would be Nothing But Flowers (about gentrification, but in a funny way like "once there was a Walmart here and now there's nothing but flowers") and a lot of their songs included some political commentary on the state of the world in the late 70s and early 80s. Burning Down the House, Stay Up Late, Road to Nowhere, Wild Wild Life.. all good ones to start with. Glass, Concreate, and Stone is a beautiful David Byrne (lead singer) solo song.
This band is soo cool💖
Talking Heads "Life during Wartime" Live is the best.
Bernie Worrell lit that song on fire
#teamAsia and #teamBJ. Couldn't choose. From Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Great song.
Stop making sense!
...is a must-react to film show of Talking Heads live gig - great fun! Lots of cool songs! When I saw this in abt '84, the film theatre audience was up and dancing in minutes :)
#1985
#Punkrock
#Newwave
#GenX
#Burningdownthehouse
#GeniusofLove
#Onceinalifetime
#Psychokiller
#Slipperypeople
Ayyye I'm just sending you my Talking Heads Playlist! In rotation. Peace&Love
These guys mention highways in many of their songs.
This song reminds me of college!!
David Byrne has said that this song is about a woman who dropped Acid in Central Park in NYC.
Another great Scotsman giving his great vocals too the world 👌🏻🏴
Another winner! Love this song.
Road to Nowhere is another fun Talking Heads song to try.
When I was in school we used this song for English class as the lyrics has a lot of figures of speech in it. Excellent Lyrics!!
Copy and pasting a direct quote from the lead singer - I used to know a blissed-out hippie-chick in Baltimore," recalled Byrne in the liner notes of Once in a Lifetime: The Best of Talking Heads. "She once told me that she used to do acid (the drug, not music) and lay down on the field by the Yoo-hoo chocolate soda factory. Flying out of her body, etc etc. It seemed like such a tacky kind of transcendence… but it was real! A new kind of religion being born out of heaps of rusted cars and fast food joints. And this girl was flying above it all, but in it too."
What can I say about TALKING HEADS. One of my favorites
I recommend their music video
“THIS MUST BE THE PLACE “
A few videos, But the best is
David Bryce, (Native Melody), live Version… you’ll love the 🎻 plus and how they jam together.
Another cool song is
“MY GIRL FRIEND IS BETTER THAN THAT”
Please check them out
Been loving their music for over 40 years now. 😅. I’m old (56)👍🏽✨🧚🏽♂️🦋🤗💫
Written about his friend on a "trip"
Yes... That type of trip 😉
It's possible to take the song literally, the girl learned to levitate. She starts floating up in the air and drifting around. You don't see that happening a lot.
She was, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
LSD or Peyote/Mescaline/MDA. Very typical trip images. Popular thing with an acid stone, to lay in the grass an look to the sky at night, instantly feel like your flying and the stars move. Not uncommon for some girls to take off their cloths when on acid, they said it made them feel free.
My favorite Talking Heads song...yay!
Road to Nowhere is my favorite Talking Heads song.
My interpretation at the time when I first heard this song, it was about a woman that had passed away and moving into the great beyond. hence "And she was" past tense.
I've really come to love Talking Heads and David Byrne as an adult.
Gotta love Talking Heads but doing lyric analysis of their songs can be tricky. I just enjoy the groove provided by Ms. Tina Weymouth.
LSD. “She was”. Was/Is. It’s a state of being. She’s tripping hard, floating around and can feel the highway “breathing”…lots of things look like they are breathing when you are tripping.
Haha! 😁 It doesn’t mean anything! It’s just words that sound cool with the music.
Oh okay
I like the part with the music and the singing.
Beautiful Cornwall,England,on the awesome Atlantic coast.
Nothing like a basic chord progression to rock you. I experienced what she experienced at the tender age of 16 in 1971 and it was terrifying and life changing. The Doors with deference to Aldous Huxley referenced this in Break on Through (to the other side).
She was floating. That's it. Byrne wanted to write a song about a girl that could float.
Just a thought…she made a decision….not knowing if it was the correct one…..but the fact that she made it on her own, made it the correct one. It’s ok if it turns own bad, own it, maybe the next one will be ok, again, if every decision is gonna be ok…then why trouble yourself.
I am so over joy that you guys are diving into the Talking Heads!!
When this first came out I really didn’t analyze the lyrics and I never really thought about it but now that I’m thinking about it
I think it just means she was in the presents of being in the present
Which is basically
be here now
Which is a basic spiritual path
……..
"Swamp" was always one of my favorites by them off their Speaking in Tongues Album. They were definitely "different"
One of the great LSD songs...
Talking heads are a trip, you have to just go with it🤣 they're fun
Crosseyed and Painless needs to be next...unreal base...great song
David Byrne put phrases together because they sound good together, no rhyme or reason. It was all about what sounded good. No drugs.
Byrne described the lyrics of “And She Was” as being about a girl he knew who used to take acid in a field near a factory, where she would feel a sensation of flight.
"She" is having an "out of body" experience. Her consciousness (soul) is suddenly, and unexpectedly, transported beyond her physical body. So her consciousness is suddenly aware of the much wider world around her, and she is very grateful and appreciative of this experience. Her body remains where it physically was, but her soul learns and retains completely new experiences, beyond her body's limits.
Byrne described the lyrics of “And She Was” as being about a girl he knew who used to take acid in a field near a factory, where she would feel a sensation of flight.
Love that you did this song! Yes, Talking Heads can be a little bit confusing lol. I hope you try some Oingo Boingo one day! (Danny Elfman's 80s band)
#teamasia, I'm half way between Baltimore and DC. From Michigan.
One of my 5 favorite bands!! So amazing....if you do more Talking Heads PLEASE try out This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) Live bc it's simply one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard
"The Big Country" and "Pulled Up" would be cool listens.
Fill in the blank with whatever you want of her or want her to be. Think of that phrase this way: "And she was ______" He's not talking about anything specific, he wants you to fill in and make it what you want it to be.
Byrne described the lyrics of “And She Was” as being about a girl he knew who used to take acid in a field near a factory, where she would feel a sensation of flight.
Awww! Heck yes! Talking Heads has just a varying catalogue of music. Psssst: their videos are fun too!
Check out:
“Stay Up Late”
“Wild, Wild Life”
I always thought this was about the bass player being pregnant, all powerful, a part of the universe, not sure about her decision but she was... Stay up All Night was about her baby...
ha I caught that missing person's ref my self.....threw me...good song.
I wasn't a huge New Wave back then. I was more into hard rock.
Now, I can barely listen to classic rock/hard rock. I much prefer new wave now or a band like the Clash or INXS or alnis morisette
There's only so many times you can listen to led zeppelin, the beatles, pink floyd, the who, GNR, van halen, pearl jam, stp, etc
All I need is Graham Parker & the Rumour
Sounds to me like a wild girl's night on the town that just got a little tooooo crazy!! (Think "The Hangover" movie.)
Byrne described the lyrics of “And She Was” as being about a girl he knew who used to take acid in a field near a factory (A Yoo-hoo factory), where she would feel a sensation of flight.
And she was.. STONED OUT OF HER MIND! 😀
She was not sleeping, She was lying in the grass... I believe the song is a lot darker than the tune. She departed and became one with the universe. Hence missing person.
Byrne described the lyrics of “And She Was” as being about a girl he knew who used to take acid in a field near a factory, where she would feel a sensation of flight.
@@redchili6927 We have learned a different history. I would note there is more references to the girl being demised, joining the World of missing persons. So many lines in the song are not of a hallucinogenic experience. Possibly at the time of the interview it was deemed wiser to point to drugs as an explanation rather than the darker tone of a victim. The big giveaway is And She Was. Rather than And She Is.