“Love Knife” is one of
my favorite songs that I wrote with Social Fallout. The music is heavy and the
concept itself is heavy. A little too heavy for some people, apparently. My former
instructor in Creative Writing (one of my favorite instructors) Colleen Abel,
tried to lead the class to a feminist discussion on this song. I submitted it
as a poem, which was already problematic, but the focus turned to the feminist
qualities of the song since the person accosted is a female. That’s not what
the song is about though.
The original idea for
the song came from reality TV. I don’t watch reality TV, and I didn’t watch it
then, because I’d rather patronize television that features talented
individuals (particularly shows that are written by real writers), but I was
interested in the idea of voyeurism. The idea of the social obsession with
voyeurism still intrigues me, and it might be a concept that invades my stories
in the future. In reality, aren’t all stories really about seeing into another
person’s life without actually having to deal with them? That’s a large part of
what this song is about. This is one of only two Social Fallout songs that actually
did not come from personal experience in some way.
In the end Colleen was
proven wrong by the students in the class who did not feel that the song was in
any way an insult to feminist ideals. I did end up rewriting it as an actual
poem, but I’ll save that for another day. I’ll detail what I updated then, but
I will say here that I kept the voyeurism concept of murder with the same
characters. Below you can find the music for this song.
Btw, I should say that
the title of this song came from Tenacious D, particularly HBO episode where Jack
and Kyle first meet Lee and describe him as “...love knife material...”
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