Ryan Adams - Sylvia Plath video free download

Austin Brumfield

Ryan Adams is an underrated American troubador . Like his champion Elton John, he's very prolific, and his rootsy alt-country and tender ballads (Elton's strengths as well) are hit-or-miss, sounding generic sometimes and at other times, brilliant. Ryan's quavery smoker's voice is capable of tender expression. His masterpiece thus far is "Gold," an album where all his good eggs are in one basket, including the plaintive piano ballad "Sylvia Plath.". Adams, clearly a poetic lyricist, pines for the sensuous capricious woman he imagines the depressed but incandescent Plath to be. The song ends by imagining one of her famous suicide attempts as he swims out of sight.

bcimhe

A lovely tribute from a man who I believe knows what it's like to drown in one's own thoughts. Here's thanking them both for letting us know someone else went down down that beautiful rabbit hole...

iclandgirl .

She did lots of ordinary things. She looked after her children- She loved to cook- She studied THE JOY OF COOKING- She liked needlework.... Her husband was just a jerk. She was mentally ill-.

Brett Trowbridge

The upside down flag is there because the album was released shortly after the 9/11 attacks. And upside down flag is a universal distress signal.

Jamie Russell

Cool...He's "deeper" than I thought.....

crazycrow76

Oops- Surprised after 3 years later, the spelling error was not corrected. . . Should have been GORGEOUS Song .. .

Andy White

What a great writer and performer this guy is - if you dont know it check out Ralph mctells 'sylvia' - beautiful too.

sp0ttedp0ny330

perhaps because Sylvia Plath was hauntingly beautiful herself...

Karl Reinhard Krierer

--- Sylvia ---

sp0ttedp0ny330

WELL SAID!!!! most people have NO idea what the upside down flag even signifies (that's why morons think its disrespectful DUHHH lol) for those who do NOT know...it is a DISTRESS sign!!! geesh get over your un-educated selves would ya

philgarciaweir

lol yea ryan adams is a sellout... gtho silly head

Núria Araüna i Baró

I una altra per a la Plath. Ryan Adams - Sylvia Plath

stickypool

There's something hauntingly beautiful about this. Adams can sure write a song.

Pablo Horteg

There are some real twits around. The album speaks lovingly about the USA, go listen to Ryan Adams New York, New York. The upside down flag is a symbol of national distress. As for Sylvia Plath, aennekin83 nailed it, Also he is using her as the basis of his 'perfect woman', a creative spirit who doesn't do normal/banal things that ordinary people do. A woman like Sylvia but not exactly Sylvia and someone he could take care of and who take care of him.

Aaron Enneking

@iclandgirl Actually, I'm pretty sure he is a huge fan of Sylvia Plath and has been since a very young age. It's an interpretation and partially metaphor for falling in love with a destructive personality because genius and sane don't always go together. Someone who loves literature should understand the concept of not taking everything at face value.

Foster Jones

@iclandgirl --If you knew anything about "this guy," you wouldn't have written this.

Ryan Campbell

excellent song

rimbaud100

"Would I salute the American flag? No. But maybe if you soaked it in heroin I'd suck it." - William Burroughs

iclandgirl .

This guy knows nothing of Sylvia Plath. Just wanted to make a song, that would make people want to buy an album- that had a song called Sylvia Plath on it. stupid.

StevenThePhilosopher

Absolutely perfect. Melancholy sound. Terrible sadness. A longing sound. A desire for a relationship with a wonderful, albeit terribly troubled and wrecked woman. I think this song is a perfect artistic expression of just how many people feel towards Plath. I know I do. After reading her poems, I feel a desire to have known her, to be around her. Great song. She was a hurt, fragile-looking woman. A poetic genius. An artistic giant.

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