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Tue 17 Jun, 2025 03:33 pm
Just a rant about a popular song. My wife likes it (the song, not the rant).
Tik Tok tells: "Explore the powerful lyrics of 'I Am My Mother's Savage Daughter', a Viking song embodying strength and defiance."
OK, strength and defiance. Powerful lyrics. Viking song (written around 2000). Well...
"I will not cut my hair, I will not lower my voice."
Ooo, how savage! She and my honor-student granddaughter.
If you really listen to the song and read the lyrics, you might realize that the young girl is hardly "savage" because she runs barefoot and curses sharp stones - who doesn't? And all the rest actually seems rather tame, like any young girl today or yesterday. Kind of dreamy, looks at stars, renames planets (my little sister decided one day to rename every animal with totally made-up names, she even compiled a dictionary of sorts - her "Animactionary" - she was 7. Elephant = Snozzaclump, etc.). Dreams she can fly on a broom (like a cartoon witch - Kiki's Delivery Service?). Nothing in the song suggests wildness or savagery in the least.
Nope, no savagery here, folks. You can go home now...
In fact, for a "Viking", she sounds kinda wimpy. Not sure of actual history, but the image I have of a "Viking woman" is of someone tough, resilient, strong, loyal to her clan, and dangerously capable of using weapons at need. I could be wrong.
Of course, the upside is the primitive beat, Ekaterina Shelehova's beautiful voice, and even her name which evokes images of ancient "savage" Russia or some Nordic country. The tones of her singing are both soothing and stirring at the same time...
Well, here's a "Savage Daughter":
I am my mother's savage daughter,
The one who hunts deer, with a knife and her teeth.
I am my mother's savage daughter,
I will eat the meat raw, and I will drink the blood warm.
My mother's daughter's battle-scars are many,
She hunts down her foes, with an axe and a spear.
She seeks for the beast that threatens her family,
She tracks it at night, she is a stranger to fear.
@Seizan,
Seizan wrote:
Of course, the upside is the primitive beat
Absolutely.
I too love that song, and it's all for the beat, the rhythm etc. There's just something about those kinds of songs that really entice people.
I agree with a lot of what you said as there isn't much savagery going on, just playful whimsy.
If you and/or your wife enjoy that kind of primitive sound, let me introduce you to Skald.
They don't sing about fanciful savagery though they do sing about old world gods.
Their sound is amazing though.
https://youtu.be/s9NIBZfVBW4
@edgarblythe,
That song is fabulous!
I wish all of their music followed that same vein but some of it I just don't like. That song though is often repeated when it comes up on my playlist 😂!