![]() ![]() Furthermore, it also performed impressively on the UK Singles Chart. It topped Billboard’s Adult Contemporary chart and scored a number 2 on the Hot 100. The Carpenters’ rendition of Superstar was produced by Jack Daugherty. The Carpenters were a brother-and-sister team consisting of Richard Carpenter and his younger sibling, Karen Carpenter (1950-1983). They were in fact one of the better known musical acts of the 1970s heading into the 1980s. But their professional tenure was cut short when Karen, who had grown up with self-image issues, basically starved herself to death in the name of retaining a slim physique. Ruben Studdard and Usher also covered it in 20 respectively.īut the version we’re covering today by the Carpenters stands as the most-successful out of the lot. Since then, Superstar has been covered by some of the biggest names in the game, such as Luther Vandross in 1983. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself.This song was written by Hall of Fame inductee Leon Russell (1942-2016) and singer Bonnie Bramlett. And it was first dropped in 1969 by a musical duo the latter was a part of known as Delaney & Bramlett. It faced-or seemed to face-the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. This could relate to what Nick commented about Gatsby's smile: "He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. I see this relating to (because of the repetition) how Gatsby was set on the fact that Daisy was his means to an end for acheiving the "American Dream" (common theme in the book) and how he so badly wanted to feel the way he once did with her when he was young "Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!" -Gatsby It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself." ![]() I've been everywhere and seen everything and done everything." You see, I think everything's terrible anyhow. Gatsby would stare at the green light on the end of Daisy's dock (her home) and one day Nick (the narrator) saw him doing this and reaching out his hand at the same time as if trying to reach for Daisy who was all the way across the lake.ĭaisy was very aware of her trophy wife position in life and once said (about having a baby girl) "I hope she'll be a fool-that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. "and then i kiss her stomach and it's then i realize And then JT Eckleburge's eyes on the bill board represented God (or something ubiquitous) that watched over the Valley of Ashes and the moral decay of society due to the "American dream." ![]() In the book the green light represented Gatsby's view of Daisy and how she was the gateway to all of his dreams about the happiness he had once felt with her. "I kneel before the green light of her singing crayon eyes" If you've read The Great Gatsby then you see all of the connections and ties to it in this song: "a single green light, minute and faraway, that might have been the end of a dock." ![]()
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