This is the music video referred to in the Preface. Seen it before? Did it have the same effect on you that it had on Gottschall? Can you recommend a different music video that tells a story that you found moving?
I have seen the video many times growing up. It was especially prevalent at most weddings I have attended. I find "Stealing Cinderella" to be touching (it would be hard not to feel at least SOMETHING while listening to this song), however, it has never had the effect on me that it had on Gottschall. I believe the answer to this lies in the fact that I, unlike Gottschall, am not a father. I do not understand what it would be like as a father to watch another man "steal" my little "Cinderella." This song presents the story of the bond between father and daughter beautifully. Carrie Underwood's "See You Again" is a music video that makes me cry every single time I watch it (including now). It is a story I, and many others, can connect with. Joy, sorrow, fear, courage, loss, reunion, love, family - all the little bits and pieces of our lives - are found in the video. I find "See You Again" to be a beautiful picture of human life, from beginning to end.
Sidney, I am able to agree with you that I was not affected in the same way that Gottschall was, being that I'm not a father. However, by being a daughter, this song emotionally touched me by giving me some sense of realization of how difficult it must be for my own father to watch his little girl grow up and have to give her away someday. I can also agree that Carrie Underwood's "See You Again" is a beautiful video that portrays the different parts of life that people experience. Another music video that I've always found moving is "Who You'd Be Today" by Kenny Chesney. The song itself is similar to the message found in Carrie Underwood's "See You Again" because it is relatable to anyone who has lost a loved one, and the video perfectly exemplifies the sorrow someone will feel by death, as well as the comfort of knowing that they will see their loved one again someday.
Sidney and Lily, I think this is only a question us girls want to answer! I agree with everything you have both said, and I have the feeling of it not being as emotionally tying to me because I am not, nor will ever be a father. I come from a family of six, so family is very important (there were way too many of us so we had to get along) and my sister got married just a week ago yesterday, so when I heard this song I thought of the dance my father and my sister shared together. It was the last time he would really be her dancing partner. I could tell that as her husband was "stealing" her away my dad was coming to the realization his "Cinderella" was grown up and moving on with her life. It helped me understand the feeling Gottschall had just by listening to this song. Another song that hits me like this one is surprisingly “The One That Got Away” by Katy Perry. If you just listen to the song it sounds like another song about teen love, but if you actually watch the music video it’s about an older woman remembering the death of who she thought was the love of her life. It make you realize how precious life is and never to let a moment get away. -Abigail Blose
I guess I'll weigh in on this one as a guy.... This was the first time that I have ever watched this video or heard the song. While it didn't affect me in a like manner as it did Gottschall, it did affect me. This video immediately made me think of the difficulty that my father must have faced at my sister's wedding last summer. That day was the only time in my life that I have ever witnessed my father cry. Giving away a daughter would be heart crushing, even for the manliest man. I just hope that, if I have to do this one day, I will be able to trust the man with my daughter's heart. - Dillon Rea
I have seen the video and it did not have the effect on me that Gottschall described it having on him. This as the three comments before mine have pointed out is most likely because I am not a father. I may become one someday but interestingly enough I feel like the actual life event would have to hit me before it had the same effect, not just the possibility that it may happen one day. Being in college I feel that I am becoming closer and closer to "making it" so I seem to connect with music videos, more the music than the actual videos, like The Script's Hall of Fame or Need To Breathe's Keep Your Eye's Open.
I won’t lie, this song made me tear up. I never heard it before because like Gottschall, when I hear that little country tune I change it immediately. I have nothing against country music just certain songs do not go with what I like to listen to. I was, although, able to relate to Gottschall about bawling his eyes out but at the same time I was not able to relate to the story. Watching the video showed me something that I yearned for growing up, a father figure who was your right man hand to help you. I mean I had my father and everything but he was always busy working to provide for my family, so he was absent in the important stages growing up. I just wanted that bonding like they had in the music video. It led me to become sort of depressed and sad after, but that is what great storytellers do. A great music video to watch that still gets me emotional no matter what is Carrie Underwood’s “Temporary Home”, the first time I seen it I couldn’t stop crying. I greatly recommend this music video because it leaves a good feeling about the future even if the present is all rocky and rough. -Sutida Hanratanagorn
The most I have felt with this song was chills, because I was able to put myself in the place of the father. But for the first time, my heart started to ache, and my eyes burned with a few tears I didn’t let go. I had been like the others who have posted, saying that since I wasn’t a father, I wouldn’t know how it feels, but now I am saying something completely different. The reason it affected me now was because I have lost my father. Though he died two years ago, I still have moments where my heart feels like it happened yesterday. I will not get to have the experience of my father thinking that the man I will marry will be stealing his Cinderella. Then of course, my mind has to go down that trail of thought and yeah, I started to tear up. -Lauren Tucker
I have not seen the video to this song before, but I have heard it played on the radio quite of few times. Because I cannot relate to Gottschall as a father giving away his daughter, the music video didn't have the same effect on me. One song that I can immediately think of that tells a moving story is Dance With My Father Again. Although it has no official video with it because of the age of the music, the lyrics paint a picture of a man whose father was taken from him and his mother by death while he was still young.
This song brings me to tears almost every time I hear it. I think its because I have a really close relationship with my father and I know one day I will find my "prince charming" and to my daddy he will be stealing his Cinderella. My daddy jokes that he will probably meet a boy he feels is good enough for his little girl. The song "Beneath your beautiful" has brought me to tears, as well as MANY other songs. I mention this one specifically because this song speaks to someone who tries to keep it all looking perfect on the outside while he or she is falling apart on the inside and the speaker is wanting him or her to show the side that isn't so beautiful. The first time I heard this song, I had felt as though my world was moving at a rate where all I could do was try to play catch-up, but I do NOT like feeling as though I don't have any control over my life and I would have to be really close to someone to let them "see beneath [my] beautiful" and tell them how I really felt. Getting close to people can be really difficult for me and I don't exactly know why. But one thing I do know is both of these songs have brought me to tears more than once. Ashley Houchin
I have not seen this music video before or heard the song, but I find it especially touching. I didn't cry, but I could understand the sentiment. Another song that has much the same affect on me is "Don't Take The Girl" by Tim McGraw. I won't get into detail over the story seeing that country isn't really my thing, but it is quite touching. The video? Not so much. Mostly because he is just singing on a stage with a few flashes to the story he's singing about, but the words and the story itself are touching in my opinion. Other than that, a song that makes me feel particularly moved is "Make Me Real" by She. The story is about a dream that wants to keep its dreamer in a coma so that it can be real and stay with its dreamer. Saying things like"I am only here, only real, when your dream of me" and "the more I try to feel again, the more I disappear. Close your eyes, make me real again." It lacks sentiment, but it still manages to affect me. -Cheyenne Cooley
I have seen this music video before. I am sure that if I was a parent, this music video would make me cry. However, since I have been "Cinderella" in the same situation, it did bring back some emotional memories. Before my own wedding in May, I always thought brides were drama queens when they cried as their fathers handed them off to their future husbands. My inner monolgue was screaming, "Grow up and get over it! This is a happy moment! You are getting married and forming your own family!". I never really thought about my own hand off until it was almost that moment. As my dad walked with me toward my future husband, I found that my eyes were heavy with forming tears. In that short time, I had the realization that my childhood was offically over. My dad's house was no longer my house. If I needed help with something, my dad would no longer be the first person I ran to. A part of life was ending for me and for my entire family and it was never coming back, but a new part of my life was begining. I think this music video potrays this conflicted feeling well. There are countless music videos that make me cry, but the first one that popped into my head was "Concrete Angel" by Martina McBride. I was in thirs grade when I saw this video for the first time. It was my first exposure to physical child abuse. I could not understand how an adult could harm a child. The song is powerful by itself, but the music video gives a face to the innocent victim creating a moving experience. - Abigail Savage
I have seen the video many times growing up. It was especially prevalent at most weddings I have attended. I find "Stealing Cinderella" to be touching (it would be hard not to feel at least SOMETHING while listening to this song), however, it has never had the effect on me that it had on Gottschall. I believe the answer to this lies in the fact that I, unlike Gottschall, am not a father. I do not understand what it would be like as a father to watch another man "steal" my little "Cinderella." This song presents the story of the bond between father and daughter beautifully. Carrie Underwood's "See You Again" is a music video that makes me cry every single time I watch it (including now). It is a story I, and many others, can connect with. Joy, sorrow, fear, courage, loss, reunion, love, family - all the little bits and pieces of our lives - are found in the video. I find "See You Again" to be a beautiful picture of human life, from beginning to end.
ReplyDelete-Sidney Lewis
Sidney, I am able to agree with you that I was not affected in the same way that Gottschall was, being that I'm not a father. However, by being a daughter, this song emotionally touched me by giving me some sense of realization of how difficult it must be for my own father to watch his little girl grow up and have to give her away someday. I can also agree that Carrie Underwood's "See You Again" is a beautiful video that portrays the different parts of life that people experience. Another music video that I've always found moving is "Who You'd Be Today" by Kenny Chesney. The song itself is similar to the message found in Carrie Underwood's "See You Again" because it is relatable to anyone who has lost a loved one, and the video perfectly exemplifies the sorrow someone will feel by death, as well as the comfort of knowing that they will see their loved one again someday.
DeleteSidney and Lily, I think this is only a question us girls want to answer! I agree with everything you have both said, and I have the feeling of it not being as emotionally tying to me because I am not, nor will ever be a father. I come from a family of six, so family is very important (there were way too many of us so we had to get along) and my sister got married just a week ago yesterday, so when I heard this song I thought of the dance my father and my sister shared together. It was the last time he would really be her dancing partner. I could tell that as her husband was "stealing" her away my dad was coming to the realization his "Cinderella" was grown up and moving on with her life. It helped me understand the feeling Gottschall had just by listening to this song. Another song that hits me like this one is surprisingly “The One That Got Away” by Katy Perry. If you just listen to the song it sounds like another song about teen love, but if you actually watch the music video it’s about an older woman remembering the death of who she thought was the love of her life. It make you realize how precious life is and never to let a moment get away.
Delete-Abigail Blose
I guess I'll weigh in on this one as a guy.... This was the first time that I have ever watched this video or heard the song. While it didn't affect me in a like manner as it did Gottschall, it did affect me. This video immediately made me think of the difficulty that my father must have faced at my sister's wedding last summer. That day was the only time in my life that I have ever witnessed my father cry. Giving away a daughter would be heart crushing, even for the manliest man. I just hope that, if I have to do this one day, I will be able to trust the man with my daughter's heart.
Delete- Dillon Rea
I have seen the video and it did not have the effect on me that Gottschall described it having on him. This as the three comments before mine have pointed out is most likely because I am not a father. I may become one someday but interestingly enough I feel like the actual life event would have to hit me before it had the same effect, not just the possibility that it may happen one day. Being in college I feel that I am becoming closer and closer to "making it" so I seem to connect with music videos, more the music than the actual videos, like The Script's Hall of Fame or Need To Breathe's Keep Your Eye's Open.
ReplyDelete~Alan Dennis
I won’t lie, this song made me tear up. I never heard it before because like Gottschall, when I hear that little country tune I change it immediately. I have nothing against country music just certain songs do not go with what I like to listen to. I was, although, able to relate to Gottschall about bawling his eyes out but at the same time I was not able to relate to the story. Watching the video showed me something that I yearned for growing up, a father figure who was your right man hand to help you. I mean I had my father and everything but he was always busy working to provide for my family, so he was absent in the important stages growing up. I just wanted that bonding like they had in the music video. It led me to become sort of depressed and sad after, but that is what great storytellers do. A great music video to watch that still gets me emotional no matter what is Carrie Underwood’s “Temporary Home”, the first time I seen it I couldn’t stop crying. I greatly recommend this music video because it leaves a good feeling about the future even if the present is all rocky and rough.
ReplyDelete-Sutida Hanratanagorn
The most I have felt with this song was chills, because I was able to put myself in the place of the father. But for the first time, my heart started to ache, and my eyes burned with a few tears I didn’t let go. I had been like the others who have posted, saying that since I wasn’t a father, I wouldn’t know how it feels, but now I am saying something completely different. The reason it affected me now was because I have lost my father. Though he died two years ago, I still have moments where my heart feels like it happened yesterday. I will not get to have the experience of my father thinking that the man I will marry will be stealing his Cinderella. Then of course, my mind has to go down that trail of thought and yeah, I started to tear up.
ReplyDelete-Lauren Tucker
I have not seen the video to this song before, but I have heard it played on the radio quite of few times. Because I cannot relate to Gottschall as a father giving away his daughter, the music video didn't have the same effect on me. One song that I can immediately think of that tells a moving story is Dance With My Father Again. Although it has no official video with it because of the age of the music, the lyrics paint a picture of a man whose father was taken from him and his mother by death while he was still young.
ReplyDelete-Sean Jesse
DeleteThis song brings me to tears almost every time I hear it. I think its because I have a really close relationship with my father and I know one day I will find my "prince charming" and to my daddy he will be stealing his Cinderella. My daddy jokes that he will probably meet a boy he feels is good enough for his little girl. The song "Beneath your beautiful" has brought me to tears, as well as MANY other songs. I mention this one specifically because this song speaks to someone who tries to keep it all looking perfect on the outside while he or she is falling apart on the inside and the speaker is wanting him or her to show the side that isn't so beautiful. The first time I heard this song, I had felt as though my world was moving at a rate where all I could do was try to play catch-up, but I do NOT like feeling as though I don't have any control over my life and I would have to be really close to someone to let them "see beneath [my] beautiful" and tell them how I really felt. Getting close to people can be really difficult for me and I don't exactly know why. But one thing I do know is both of these songs have brought me to tears more than once.
ReplyDeleteAshley Houchin
I have not seen this music video before or heard the song, but I find it especially touching. I didn't cry, but I could understand the sentiment. Another song that has much the same affect on me is "Don't Take The Girl" by Tim McGraw. I won't get into detail over the story seeing that country isn't really my thing, but it is quite touching. The video? Not so much. Mostly because he is just singing on a stage with a few flashes to the story he's singing about, but the words and the story itself are touching in my opinion. Other than that, a song that makes me feel particularly moved is "Make Me Real" by She. The story is about a dream that wants to keep its dreamer in a coma so that it can be real and stay with its dreamer. Saying things like"I am only here, only real, when your dream of me" and "the more I try to feel again, the more I disappear. Close your eyes, make me real again." It lacks sentiment, but it still manages to affect me.
ReplyDelete-Cheyenne Cooley
I have seen this music video before. I am sure that if I was a parent, this music video would make me cry. However, since I have been "Cinderella" in the same situation, it did bring back some emotional memories. Before my own wedding in May, I always thought brides were drama queens when they cried as their fathers handed them off to their future husbands. My inner monolgue was screaming, "Grow up and get over it! This is a happy moment! You are getting married and forming your own family!". I never really thought about my own hand off until it was almost that moment. As my dad walked with me toward my future husband, I found that my eyes were heavy with forming tears. In that short time, I had the realization that my childhood was offically over. My dad's house was no longer my house. If I needed help with something, my dad would no longer be the first person I ran to. A part of life was ending for me and for my entire family and it was never coming back, but a new part of my life was begining. I think this music video potrays this conflicted feeling well.
ReplyDeleteThere are countless music videos that make me cry, but the first one that popped into my head was "Concrete Angel" by Martina McBride. I was in thirs grade when I saw this video for the first time. It was my first exposure to physical child abuse. I could not understand how an adult could harm a child. The song is powerful by itself, but the music video gives a face to the innocent victim creating a moving experience.
- Abigail Savage