This is too delicious. I haven't been able to get the music from the shows out of my head. The orchestral stuff is one thing, it repeats themes from previous series like Irene's theme which stands for sexuality, but the pop music with lyrics is another because it has lyrics. And the lyrics are very interesting.
"Oh What A Night" is a great, fun wedding song, yes. But I adore how, when Sherlock is folding up the sheet music for his tender, emotional love waltz, and slipping it into the envelope marked Dr and Mrs Watson, the lyrics we hear are Why'd it take so long to see the light? Seemed so wrong, but now it seems so right. Ouchie.
What's really been bothering me is the meaning of the music choice used for The Reunion. "Donde Estas Yolanda?" by Pink Martini is not something that blends in tone with Sherlock and John at all being a hot, sultry, passionate Latin dance piece. Although, in keeping with the lonesome dancer theme that is Sherlock dancing alone or not at all throughout ep2 (even though he loves to dance), when John jumps Sherlock he is essentially dancing with him for several steps, walking Sherlock backward (John is leading!) until they fall into a passionate pile of feels on the floor. So, hot and Latin = ersatz sex. I found a translation of the lyrics and oh, boy. If taken from John's POV (and I think we should given how it cuts in when John jumps Sherlock), it gets very meaningful. Generally, it's about a man who had a passionate moment with a woman and has been searching for her ever since. http://lyricstranslate.com/en/donde-estas-yolanda-where-are-you-yolanda.html Here's the end of the song: If someday I was to find you I wouldn't know what to do and I think I will go crazy if I never see you again.
Where are you, where are you, Yolanda ? What happened, What happened, Yolanda ? I looked for you, I looked for you, Yolanda and you're not there, you're not there, Yolanda.
And what does Yolanda mean? It's part French (not unlike Sherlock himself) and means Violet. The color of gay men everywhere.
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I haven't been able to get the music from the shows out of my head. The orchestral stuff is one thing, it repeats themes from previous series like Irene's theme which stands for sexuality, but the pop music with lyrics is another because it has lyrics. And the lyrics are very interesting.
"Oh What A Night" is a great, fun wedding song, yes. But I adore how, when Sherlock is folding up the sheet music for his tender, emotional love waltz, and slipping it into the envelope marked Dr and Mrs Watson, the lyrics we hear are Why'd it take so long to see the light? Seemed so wrong, but now it seems so right.
Ouchie.
What's really been bothering me is the meaning of the music choice used for The Reunion. "Donde Estas Yolanda?" by Pink Martini is not something that blends in tone with Sherlock and John at all being a hot, sultry, passionate Latin dance piece. Although, in keeping with the lonesome dancer theme that is Sherlock dancing alone or not at all throughout ep2 (even though he loves to dance), when John jumps Sherlock he is essentially dancing with him for several steps, walking Sherlock backward (John is leading!) until they fall into a passionate pile of feels on the floor. So, hot and Latin = ersatz sex.
I found a translation of the lyrics and oh, boy. If taken from John's POV (and I think we should given how it cuts in when John jumps Sherlock), it gets very meaningful. Generally, it's about a man who had a passionate moment with a woman and has been searching for her ever since. http://lyricstranslate.com/en/donde-estas-yolanda-where-are-you-yolanda.html Here's the end of the song:
If someday I was to find you
I wouldn't know what to do
and I think I will go crazy
if I never see you again.
Where are you, where are you, Yolanda ?
What happened, What happened, Yolanda ?
I looked for you, I looked for you, Yolanda
and you're not there, you're not there, Yolanda.
And what does Yolanda mean? It's part French (not unlike Sherlock himself) and means Violet. The color of gay men everywhere.
Thank you! I'll be here all week.