Jamie: I always thought that he was just young and full of piss and wanted something NEW and DIFFERENT and Not What His Parents Prescribed, if you know what I mean. Dating someone from your hometown that your Parents Would Approve Of is a very specific feeling, especially when you're...well, Jamie's twenty-three at the time of Moving Too Fast. So I think for him it's a lot about independence, too, and getting out of Scarsdale, or wherever it is he grew up.
Though, now that I look again at some of the lyrics, I think there probably is also an undercurrent (that I'm not sure JRB is even aware of) of...well, the same reasons racial intermarrying is still significant, and that it's different when the woman is white than when the man is white. How we perceive beauty, specifically mainstream beauty. How historically you take a culture by taking its women. How until you can do that and not have people look askance at you on the street or be surprised on their television - and in some parts of the US with various groups this is done, and in other parts it'll be another century coming at least - you're not really an equal part of the society.
HIMYM method: I might want to borrow it in the future...if that's okay...
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Date: 2011-03-23 06:18 pm (UTC)Though, now that I look again at some of the lyrics, I think there probably is also an undercurrent (that I'm not sure JRB is even aware of) of...well, the same reasons racial intermarrying is still significant, and that it's different when the woman is white than when the man is white. How we perceive beauty, specifically mainstream beauty. How historically you take a culture by taking its women. How until you can do that and not have people look askance at you on the street or be surprised on their television - and in some parts of the US with various groups this is done, and in other parts it'll be another century coming at least - you're not really an equal part of the society.
HIMYM method: I might want to borrow it in the future...if that's okay...