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@sherribrock2726 Год назад

This was written basically about a friend on an acid trip!

@jeffjones6221 Год назад

Been there

@Kurtiscott Год назад

Could of been shrooms as well! But yes, “she was” obviously tripping balls

@jeffjones6221 Год назад

@@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!

@sherribrock2726 Год назад

@@Kurtiscott David Byrnes said acid in an interview. But yes, shrooms can absolutely have that effect!😂😂😂

@paulprendergast3184 Год назад

Been there done that

@michaeljensen6732 Год назад

David Byrne wrote this song and said it was about a girl he knew that used to take acid.

@NickiTwix Год назад

Makes complete sense to me 😂

@vespoint Год назад

That explains “…and she could see the highway breathing…” 😂

@runninamok2003 Год назад

Correct!

@jamielandis4308 Год назад

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!

@Kevigator Год назад

Yes! Nothing but Flowers! One of my favorites.

@wreckingKREW1 Год назад

Whoa,guys. Nothing But Flowers isn't on Little Creatures,it's on the Heads last album,Naked.

@rhondaturner9494 Год назад

Love this album!!! "Stay Up Late" is a favorite!!!

@carjam49 Год назад

according to song meanings, David Byrne says it's about a girl dropping acid near a Yoohoo factory. I would never have guessed.

@vincentvancraig Год назад

Byrne tells that story so funny...i was going to see if anybody mentioned it🤣😂

@sandymcneill7698 Год назад

That's why back in the days, MTV was so big on music & Talking Heads was a part of it 24/7/365.

@jenniferfoster1692 Год назад

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.

@mariacavanaugh1010 Год назад

This is my funeral song... 😜 Seriously, I want this played for all my friends to party! 🥳

@EpicFrozenMoment Год назад

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!!

@newmoon766 Год назад

Sounds like a proper wake.

@seelenwinter6662 Год назад

party sounds great... when you will die...?

@XxIkeWittxX Год назад

Personally, I am going with 'Road To Nowhere' at my funeral.

@surlechapeau Год назад

Asia & BJ, you'll love their "Life During Wartime", "Psycho Killer"(must be album version) "Take Me To The River"(Cover) and many more!!!

@sandymiller3577 Год назад

Yes to all those

@sirrobin4394 Год назад

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. :)

@Dr3amtime Год назад

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.

@nathanpapp432 Год назад

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.

@redchili6927 Год назад

No idiot, the song is about a woman doing drugs.

@donnabruhn6907 Год назад

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

@Uriahjw Год назад

Same here I was still in high-school but I really loved the 80's.

@MrBonners Год назад

You need to hear and see more from them. They took New Wave Punk to an unique level.

@goldiekildea2924 Год назад

The Talking Heads have crazy lyrics in their songs!

@b0tterman Год назад

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.

@1teamski Год назад

Until reality hits and she hits the ground.

@redchili6927 Год назад

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.

@renecasillas1308 Год назад

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

@eldritchshiner Год назад

I saw them live several times- what an awesome band! I always left the concert feeling like the world was a better place.

@zenpuppy6025 Год назад

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.

@DevastatorJr Год назад

Wow! Lucky indeed.

@Kevvinm Год назад

I was at the Berklee show too,B’52s opened the show.

@zenpuppy6025 Год назад

@@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.

@Kevvinm Год назад

@@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.

@zenpuppy6025 Год назад

@@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.

@skinmeister1 Год назад

So fun! Thanks for reacting to Talking Heads again guys, they are a great band. Try “Road To Nowhere" next, you'll love!!

@tinagriggs1004 Год назад

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!

@juliemartin4267 Год назад

My favourite Talking Heads song. Love it ❤

@blitztim6416 Год назад

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.

@redchili6927 Год назад

It's about a girl that David Byrne knew that did drugs.

@stevenolsen3162 Год назад

"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."

@CuzKatieSaysSo Год назад

STOP MAKING SENSE ~ A DVD definitely worth having. One of the BEST recorded concerts ever!

@bobbycahill9921 Год назад

David Byrne with Choir Choir Choir....."Heroes" Crazy good

@Sixwheelin Год назад

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."

@newmoon766 Год назад

David Byrne writes poetry, much the same as Jim Morrison, Paul Simon, John Lennon, .... Sappho ...

@tylerhackner9731 Год назад

They’re such a great group! Love David Byrne as an interesting eccentric bandleader

@michaelbaucom4019 Год назад

Their best song, IMHO...they were constantly on MTV...the song is about being high...

@catherinelw9365 Год назад

I’m in New Mexico and I love the Talking Heads! #teamAsia However BJ cracks me up!

@SG-js2qn Год назад

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.

@ericsmith6615 Год назад

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

@jenniferfoster1692 Год назад

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.

@ronaldcrawford9310 Год назад

They helped save the 80's for me

@rossmacintosh5652 Год назад

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.

@Jojo-fy2ud Год назад

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.

@janabraam7963 Год назад

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.

@TrianglesAndCircles Год назад

Yesss! Finally...thank you so much! She is as she was - forever seeing the world through a new lens.

@cheripetty1805 Год назад

SHE was in the Sky with Diamond Lucy.

@christophercollins250 Год назад

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.

@redchili6927 Год назад

.....and by someone in the band you men lead singer David Byrne.

@bartstarr100 Год назад

This song is about a concept called Astral Projection. Commonly called an "out of body experience".

@redchili6927 Год назад

No, it's about a woman who was doing LSD.

@glassontherocks Год назад

Talking Heads "Life during Wartime" Live is the best.

@BulldogMack700rs Год назад

Bernie Worrell lit that song on fire

@BulldogMack700rs Год назад

Talking Heads are one of my favourite bands Love for sale, City of dreams, Slippery people all bangers

@scottvanhille5688 Год назад

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.

@gernblanston5697 Год назад

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.

@redchili6927 Год назад

It's about an acid trip.

@EJ-tm1fe Год назад

The legendary jazz trumpeter Miles Davis loved Talking Heads

@johndbrandhorst4434 Год назад

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."

@cartoonerystudios Год назад

"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."

@stevenanderson912 Год назад

Another great Scotsman giving his great vocals too the world 👌🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@CBGB_1977 Год назад

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? 🤷🏻‍♀️

@redchili6927 Год назад

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?

@RevsIT Год назад

Hint. She moved the world herself. There are only two things seventies to eighties music was ever all about. Three if you include politics.

@ford0073 Год назад

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.

@hermaneduarte265 Год назад

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!!

@rainlee1 Год назад

This band is soo cool💖

@mollie3484 Год назад

#teamAsia and #teamBJ. Couldn't choose. From Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Great song.

@parinthianquattropani9071 Год назад

Road to Nowhere is another fun Talking Heads song to try.

@bigbow62 Год назад

Written about his friend on a "trip" Yes... That type of trip 😉

@xlerb_again_to_music7908 Год назад

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 :)

@frugalseverin2282 Год назад

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.

@josiepkat Год назад

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.

@hebber1961 Год назад

These guys mention highways in many of their songs.

@conversationalshaving9805 Год назад

Another winner! Love this song.

@Noelle0026 Год назад

This song reminds me of college!!

@zappa1952 Год назад

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???

@billacikalin8108 Год назад

David Byrne has said that this song is about a woman who dropped Acid in Central Park in NYC.

@donaldduck2139 Год назад

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

@midnightblue6668 Год назад

My favorite Talking Heads song...yay!

@Cammieflage13 Год назад

"Swamp" was always one of my favorites by them off their Speaking in Tongues Album. They were definitely "different"

@heloinaddict Год назад

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.

@quintondees4501 Год назад

Talking heads are a trip, you have to just go with it🤣 they're fun

@gliblyaware Год назад

She was floating. That's it. Byrne wanted to write a song about a girl that could float.

@mansonmydog Год назад

She was, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

@zunbake3 Год назад

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).

@MarkChappell1 Год назад

Road to Nowhere is my favorite Talking Heads song.

@prodigal71 Год назад

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

@Michelle-pq3nq Год назад

I've really come to love Talking Heads and David Byrne as an adult.

@stevensprunger3422 Год назад

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 ……..

@darleneroberts4846 Год назад

#1985 #Punkrock #Newwave #GenX #Burningdownthehouse #GeniusofLove #Onceinalifetime #Psychokiller #Slipperypeople Ayyye I'm just sending you my Talking Heads Playlist! In rotation. Peace&Love

@TheCornishCockney Год назад

Beautiful Cornwall,England,on the awesome Atlantic coast.

@juliemartin4267 Год назад

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."

@TheTechie1 Год назад

#teamasia, I'm half way between Baltimore and DC. From Michigan.

@humbertojimenez3475 Год назад

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.

@CCDzine Год назад

I like the part with the music and the singing.

@ChrisHessert Год назад

"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.

@redchili6927 Год назад

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.

@fairydust-weepthewildwinds Год назад

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)👍🏽✨🧚🏽‍♂️🦋🤗💫

@bobschenkel7921 Год назад

Gotta love Talking Heads but doing lyric analysis of their songs can be tricky. I just enjoy the groove provided by Ms. Tina Weymouth.

@CBGB_1977 Год назад

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”

@bradmarx8891 Год назад

David Byrne put phrases together because they sound good together, no rhyme or reason. It was all about what sounded good. No drugs.

@redchili6927 Год назад

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.

@scottharwood2680 Год назад

Crosseyed and Painless needs to be next...unreal base...great song

@jamesdamiano8894 Год назад

"The Big Country" and "Pulled Up" would be cool listens.

@jimdunagan4180 Год назад

ha I caught that missing person's ref my self.....threw me...good song.

@2199SPUDMAN Год назад

And she was.. STONED OUT OF HER MIND! 😀

@KevinRCarr Год назад

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.

@redchili6927 Год назад

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.

@MrBonners Год назад

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.

@pmR32red Год назад

One of the great LSD songs...

@clintjo2377 Год назад

😁Fun music ! LOL

@bryozoa23 Год назад

The video was also very cool and helps illustrate the story

@ChipG3000 Год назад

Haha! 😁 It doesn’t mean anything! It’s just words that sound cool with the music.

@AsiaandBJ Год назад

Oh okay

@bensteiner1139 Год назад

All I need is Graham Parker & the Rumour

@scotties.3414 Год назад

It's about a levitating lady. That's talking heads for ya 🙃🤪

@Bravespop Год назад

I was many times back in the 70s. LOL

@BClarke Год назад

Good reaction. Love this song. Try “Stay Up Late”!

@mazza4190 Год назад

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.

@redchili6927 Год назад

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.

@mazza4190 Год назад

@@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.