Comments for Questions Fix You at http://www.rednow.com , comment 0 to 2 out of 2 comments http://www.rednow.com Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:08:02 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.rednow.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=343&Itemid=73#pc_62 this video made me cry, Ive been asking God questions so much lately, about our relationship, about Him, about me. this video just touched me, like God spoke to me through it. - nikki Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:00:29 +0100 http://www.rednow.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=343&Itemid=73#pc_56 This is ironic. I was listening to this song a few nights ago and thinking something similar. However, I wonder if the popularity of this song is based more on the listener taking the position of the person being fixed. I am inclined to believe the universal appeal of Fix You is not found in the recognition that we need someone to help fix us but in the desire to be attended to, to be fixed. I don’t know if the pervading thought of the American culture at large is to attend to another’s deeper needs as much as it is an intense longing to be attended to; to be valued. Is this part of the natural progression of individualism in our culture or is this the consequence of individualism? I think the album is full of the questions and desires that plague us all, especially in an extremely individualistic culture. In What If you here the question of worth, value, and importance (What if you should decide/that you don’t want me there by your side/That you don’t want me there in your life). In Talk you hear the difficulty of the accepting the truth, the uncertainty of what is to come, and the desire to have someone to talk to about it (Oh, brother I can’t/I can’t get through/I’ve been trying hard to reach you/cause I don’t know what to do/Oh, brother I can’t believe it’s true/I’m so scared about the future/and I want to talk to you). Coldplay’s X&Y seems to be laced with the desire to be in community and relationship and the fear of being let down and attempting to make it through life alone. - Thom Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:01:01 +0100