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LaMalinche -> Luka (2/21/2006 2:31:22 PM)

So is the song "Luka" (by Suzanne Vega) about abuse or a BDSM relationship? Did a search on "Luka" but did not come up with anything.

Hmmmmm. . .

So what say you all?

Best,

LaMalinche

PS. I think it is abuse


edited to add the singers name





IrishMist -> RE: Luka (2/21/2006 2:36:58 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: LaMalinche

So is the song "Luka" (by Suzanne Vega) about abuse or a BDSM relationship? Did a search on "Luka" but did not come up with anything.

Hmmmmm. . .

So what say you all?

Best,

LaMalinche

PS. I think it is abuse


edited to add the singers name





From my memories of the song ( gosh, am I that old? ) it is more about abuse than BDSM.



LaMalinche -> RE: Luka (2/21/2006 2:41:26 PM)

That is what I am thinking.

Best,

LaMalinche




KatyLied -> RE: Luka (2/21/2006 2:43:12 PM)

Luka Lyrics Linky



LaMalinche -> RE: Luka (2/21/2006 2:55:22 PM)

I am going back to sleep.............. snore..........

Best,

LaMaliche



swtnsparkling -> RE: Luka (2/21/2006 3:48:40 PM)

Abuse



maybemaybenot -> RE: Luka (2/21/2006 6:00:45 PM)

I believe it was about child abuse.



LaMalinche -> RE: Luka (2/21/2006 6:38:23 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: maybemaybenot

I believe it was about child abuse.


Child Abuse???????????

Why child? Please tell.

I thought that it was a man and woman abuse thingy.

Best,

LaMalinche




perverseangelic -> RE: Luka (2/21/2006 6:52:50 PM)

I read an interview with her a long time ago, I thought it was child abuse as well. But tha was a long time ago.

Definatly not consensual battery.



maybemaybenot -> RE: Luka (2/21/2006 7:39:47 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: LaMalinche


quote:

ORIGINAL: maybemaybenot

I believe it was about child abuse.


Child Abuse???????????


Why child? Please tell.

I thought that it was a man and woman abuse thingy.

Best,

LaMalinche





Like perverseangelic, I thought I recalled hearing her talk about this song being about child abuse. MTV, as I recall.

Anyway, I went to her website here is a quote:

" Vega's second album, Solitude Standing, once again co-produced with Kaye, was released in the spring of 1987. The single "Luka," a haunting song about child abuse, became an unexpected hit, going all the way to the number three position on Billboard's Hot 100 chart in August. "

and here is the link:

http://www.suzannevega.com/about/2004/askMen.htm

If you Google Luka and child abuse you will find more detailed info. Luka was a child who lived upstairs from her in real life, but she says he was not abused to her knowledge, she merely wrote the song loosely around him.

mbmbn




Tempestspet -> RE: Luka (2/21/2006 7:49:11 PM)

abuse, and if you look at the lyrics.... it should be fairly easy to figure out.




TheEmber -> RE: Luka (2/21/2006 9:49:05 PM)

Read the lyrics and it sounds like a stereotypical case of abuse. A few common phrases that go with abuse are in the song. As to whether it is child abuse or spouse abuse, that is up for interpretation, but from what I have read about abuse, and went through myself as a child, I would say it was abuse of an adult, since children rarely use the excuse of running ito a door. More along the lines of "I fell down" or "I had an accident".



Tempestspet -> RE: Luka (2/22/2006 12:42:25 PM)

Thats true, it could've been adult abuse / spousaql abuse. I haven't heard the song in forever... just going from memory.

And yeah...children can still say they ran into a door....especially when prompted. But whatever.

Tempest's pet
jennifer



knees2you -> RE: Luka (2/22/2006 12:54:35 PM)

That was an Awsome song.
I'm now showing my age.[&:]

I thought it was about Marital Abuse?

"Just because the Master/Mistress has left the room, doesn't mean the
quote:

PAIN
has stopped?"


Sincerely, Ant



maybemaybenot -> RE: Luka (2/22/2006 1:19:44 PM)

The beauty of poetry and lyrics is when it can be applied to many different scenarios. Vega wrote this one about child abuse, but I am sure it has a familiar ring to any abuse survivors.

mbmbn





Quoting Vega.net:

Suzanne about the creation of a character:

"Sometimes I'll create a character and the obvious example I guess is Luka, which is written from the point of view of a nine year-old boy who is abused by his parents. In that particular case there was a problem. Because there was a boy in my building named Luka who lived upstairs from me. Who was not abused at all. I never expect the song to become popular. He was nine. We had the same last name. His name was Luka Vega and I had received his Junior Scholastic's. He rang my buzzer one day and I, and I opened the door. And I said "Oh, YOUR Luka Vega". And I said, "My name is SUZANNE Vega and we have the same last name". And he looked at me like, "Yeah big deal I need to go upstairs and use the bathroom." So that was really the only time I ever spoke to him. But after the song became popular; I heard from my old roommate who said that, his, uh, he had come back to my old apartment with a girl when I guess that he must have been fifteen or sixteen by the time the song was really big. And he asked my roommate, "Would you please, tell this girl that Suzanne Vega really did live here." So he DID know that I lived downstairs. He didn't seem traumatized by it. He was using it to get girlfriends as far as could see."

In conversation with Vin Scelsa from the album "In Their Own Words, Volume Two: A bunch of Songwriters Sittin' Around Singing", live at The Bottom Line, New York, 1996 (http://www.vega.net/scel96.htm)








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