Jeff: Nothing Compares 2U
from The Volume Knob Hosted by Conseil Keith Serry Inc.
Thanks to Jeff for his time, vulnerability and good humour this week. You can learn more about him on his website. You should also keep an eye out for his storytelling courses. He's an excellent teacher (he taught me!) who has been doing online work during the pandemic. As always, I encourage you to seek out a copy of the song that inspired the story and listen to it either before or after you listen to the show. While you're at it, if you haven't already heard the synth-heavy original version -- released in 1985 by The Family, a Prince "side project" -- you might want to give it some time. It's one of those rare cases of the original being significantly less well known than the cover (on a list of many, but, some of my faves include The Tide is High, What a Man, Respect and Girls Just Wanna Have Fun). As always, you can get in touch with The Volume Knob on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook or at our website volumeknob.net. Do you have a story about the song that saved your life? Send it to me at [email protected].
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Jeff is 13 years old. He just started at a new school. He's feeling awkward; a fish out of water, and there's this girl. This amazing, beautiful girl... that he'll never work up the nerve to talk to. Maybe if, in addition to his furtive, somewhat-pantheist nightly prayers, he can figure out the right magical incantation, the girl of his dreams will just... come to him? Jeff's story -- about being 13 and in awe, caught in the space between childhood and adulthood -- is funny and poignant and punctuated by his intimate connection with Sinead O'Connor's 1990 global smash Nothing Compares 2U.
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