Brilliance, Genius by the young and old, honed with masterful skills, even less skill masterfully brought together, different genres masterfully combined, mixed with pain, agony, ecstasy, frustrations, loss and other emotions.
What I am saying: "Learn from this, apply it to your life, work ethic and business."
You will see what I mean.
Romeo and Juliet - Dire Straits
Add emotion to your product or service. I love the comments and reactions of this lady on Dire Straits' Romeo and Juliet.
Coming back to life - Pink Floyd
Focus with your emotions into what you do. I love the reaction of this teenager:
Holding Back the Years - Mick Hucknall (Simply Red)
It was this upheaval that inspired him to write the song.
Love the mother's reaction you can see her memories coming back and the daughter's emotions welling up.
Now we are free (Gladiator) - Performed by Hans Zimmer and Czarina Russell (Left Out the Video with Lisa Gerrard only because this video quality is better, they are both so good!)
Notice Hans Zimmer feeling even imagining into the song and Czarina having some tears. Love this guy's reaction and reviews:
Now we are free - Hans Zimmer and Lisa Gerrard. Great comments from an opera singer and vocal coach:
Back to Black - Late Amy Winehouse
Don't copy, make it your own and see what happens...
She wrote the song and had the right tone and emotion for this song according to the following vocal coach:
Don't let anyone rush you, especially in your life and business.
Brilliant Lyrics, never rushed and very well paced according to this vocal coach:
Child in Time - Deep Purple
Don't hold back let it be as it is.
I believe this was based on the emotions from the Vietnam war.
Masterfully played and incredible ranges in the voice of Ian Gillan according to this composer:
It's Probably me - Eric Clapton and Gordon Sumner (String) Performed by Gregory Porter
Masterful Mix of Soul, Jazz, Classical, Soft Rock...
This is a blue ocean strategy, very hard even impossible to compete with.
See a Music Producers, the Audience and Sting's reaction:
Jump - Van Halen (David Lee Roth)
Based on a man who wanted to commit suicide. The "might as well jump" means take a leap of faith and live!
Be enthusiastic and put your heart, body and soul into it. This is a brilliant portrayal of that and the essence of 80's enthusiasm, physical self-drive...
Mother - Pink Floyd
Do it for your mom. She sacrificed everything for you like my mom did, for those who have or had a mom. There is so much symbolism here. Mother is also regarded as communism trying to protect her children from the dark side of capitalism (Karl Marx). (Mother will they put me in the firing line? (dark side of communism) She will check out your girlfriends for you, communist censorship?) Mother did it need to be so high (The Berlin Wall, maybe, iron curtain)?
High Hopes - Pink Floyd
Chorus from the lyrics: "The grass was greener
The light was brighter
With friends surrounded
The nights of wonder"
Many say that this means it is memories of a happy childhood. I think it's memories and a longing for a past golden age in your life.
Then there are weddings bells or jubilant bells with bells ringing the end of an era or end of a cycle at the beginning of the song (brilliant). Happens so often with artists especially in the music industry where they reach their golden age then after that they can't get it back.
What I say is that if you recognize it, when the division bells ring, sell it, hand it over to someone, move on, reinvent or reignite that passion, that vision from childhood. Let the old behind and start with new things. It happens over and over again especially with musicians struggling to get that former glory back, same as in life and your products.
This is brilliantly portrayed in the music and music video. It is my interpretation; you may have a different interpretation.
I agree with WolfKain and HalfLifeSistah about letting your youth go, and that your hope of aspirations fade with age... I also think it is about letting your former glory go and move on, to make way for the new even if you lose all your friends or band members or dreams you had with former friends or band members, because they can't walk your path anymore, which can be hard.
Who Want to Live Forever - Queen (Written by Brian May)
Brilliant and Genius: Brian May got inspired by the scene where Heather his wife died of old age in the youthful Connor Maclead's arms, because he lives forever. He wrote the song in a cab going home!
Brian May sang then played various instruments, one of the band members played the Cello, Freddie Mercury carried the full symphony orchestra with his singing, great and beautiful and powerful music and profound lyrics.
And again a blue ocean strategy, mixing rock with classical music that time, 1986.
Take away: Do what comes naturally to you. What are you naturally good at?