My interpetation of Vice - Miranda Lambert song and video - and where the words left and the video began
I have never written a post such as this before, though thinking about a certain song and video which followed has filled my mind many times since the releases. Song being Vice by Miranda Lambert and the video which followed. The song I found to be dark in the consciousness, Miranda is an incredible talent and songwriter and possibly this song was a step in her own evolution presented as song and representing the messages she has found and taken a journey through as a result.
Releasing the video after the song, was a step well thought as the video I found to be a portrayal after the lyrics ended. Starting with an overturned vehicle with a broken gas line, she is seen lying partially out of the passenger side window. Her awareness than awakens as she crawls out of the vehicle and in Texas style, pulls her boot on. In times of old, a cowboy was always buried with their boots on as if aware of her awakening was beyond the life which contained the vices she endured.
With picking up her jacket, which was a cloak to her before is now dropped to the group as she is walking the path of a small and almost deserted town of times before, with a front page heading on a paper of chaos, free from social media into any earlier time where print was depended on for coverage rather than social scrutiny for changes in life, two little girls blowing bubbles for entertainment free from what now faces children across this world, a time when bliss was found by innocent actions and interactions. Then passing a aged building front with Star Biscuit written, the Star food she supplied was now faded in any need for further attention. Walking into a bar with a single guidance in the form of a bartender she smokes a cigarette and throws down one last shot which was paid for by a tapestry of an earring no longer needed on the bar.
Now taken back to the sight of the accident, only two crosses remain at the scene which she walks past with a glance. Though the driver was never seen in physical form, what had driven the life force which became the collision was gone as well as she comes upon her crossroads of decision. Many paths to choose though at this time her mind calls for a vehicle no longer being driven or a desire for the driver, a position she can be at peace with in any space she chooses to reside. She knows the peace of the choice as well as the sun still shines on her. Where she chooses to go from this point is yet to be fully charted though she is aware of the road she is taking. No longer holding unto the vices which brought her to crashing and potentially burning her life force completely.
Miranda incorporated journey,healing and moving forward into this work, what is yet to be coming I find to be interesting! She is much more than a songwriter and performer and that part of Miranda will become abundantly clear.
Releasing the video after the song, was a step well thought as the video I found to be a portrayal after the lyrics ended. Starting with an overturned vehicle with a broken gas line, she is seen lying partially out of the passenger side window. Her awareness than awakens as she crawls out of the vehicle and in Texas style, pulls her boot on. In times of old, a cowboy was always buried with their boots on as if aware of her awakening was beyond the life which contained the vices she endured.
With picking up her jacket, which was a cloak to her before is now dropped to the group as she is walking the path of a small and almost deserted town of times before, with a front page heading on a paper of chaos, free from social media into any earlier time where print was depended on for coverage rather than social scrutiny for changes in life, two little girls blowing bubbles for entertainment free from what now faces children across this world, a time when bliss was found by innocent actions and interactions. Then passing a aged building front with Star Biscuit written, the Star food she supplied was now faded in any need for further attention. Walking into a bar with a single guidance in the form of a bartender she smokes a cigarette and throws down one last shot which was paid for by a tapestry of an earring no longer needed on the bar.
Now taken back to the sight of the accident, only two crosses remain at the scene which she walks past with a glance. Though the driver was never seen in physical form, what had driven the life force which became the collision was gone as well as she comes upon her crossroads of decision. Many paths to choose though at this time her mind calls for a vehicle no longer being driven or a desire for the driver, a position she can be at peace with in any space she chooses to reside. She knows the peace of the choice as well as the sun still shines on her. Where she chooses to go from this point is yet to be fully charted though she is aware of the road she is taking. No longer holding unto the vices which brought her to crashing and potentially burning her life force completely.
Miranda incorporated journey,healing and moving forward into this work, what is yet to be coming I find to be interesting! She is much more than a songwriter and performer and that part of Miranda will become abundantly clear.
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