[MUSIC] Jane Siberry, "One More Colour"
Nov. 3rd, 2007 07:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldTorontonian Jane Siberry emerged in the early 1980s, part of the same Canadian Content/New Wave movement that also produced (among many, many other groups) Men Without Hats. Unlike many of these other groups and artists, Siberry--later renaming herself Issa--remained quite productive well into the 21st century. "One More Colour" is the first track off her 1985 album The Speckless Sky, and it was her biggest hit until her 1991 song with k.d. lang, "Calling All Angels".
Although I have to agree with others that I really don't like most of Siberry's post-1980s music, which I find too obscure for my tastes, Siberry did achieve wonderful things in the 1980s with her songs' "wit, intelligence, and poetic beauty." For me, the adjective that comes to my mind whenever I listen to "One More Colour" is "pretty." If only more popular music could have been (and could be) just as nice to listen to and as complex besides.
Although I have to agree with others that I really don't like most of Siberry's post-1980s music, which I find too obscure for my tastes, Siberry did achieve wonderful things in the 1980s with her songs' "wit, intelligence, and poetic beauty." For me, the adjective that comes to my mind whenever I listen to "One More Colour" is "pretty." If only more popular music could have been (and could be) just as nice to listen to and as complex besides.
