"Roxanne". Minuts Musicals amb nom propi

Si The Police no haguessin anat a París a l'octubre de 1977, per a tocar juntament amb The Damned, un dels principals grups de l'escena punk del moment, potser no haurien composat un dels seus primers èxits, la cançó "Roxanne".

La cançó parla d'una prostituta, Roxanne, i diu la història que en aquell viatge Sting les va veure per primer cop i de prop a París, pels voltants de l'hotel de mala mort on s'allotjaven. El nom de la cançó, però, no li va inspirar cap prostituta, sinó un personatge de l'obra de teatre "El Cyrano de Bergerac", Roxana, cosina de Cyrano; resulta que en alguna paret prop de l'hotel hi havia l'anunci d'una representació teatral de l'obra, i Sting es va quedar amb el nom...

La cançó relata una història d'amor impossible, l'enèsima entre un home i una prostituta, i sí, al seu dia ja vam dir que per la temàtica ens fa pensar en la "Roberta" de Billy Joel.

"Roxanne" es va publicar en el primer disc de The Police,  Outlandos d'Amour (1978), i és una de les cançons imprescindibles d'aquest extraordinari trio!

#MinutsMusicals amb Gotye i el seu Somebody That I Used To Know

Hi ha cançons impossibles d'evitar! Hi ha cançons que per més que canviïs el dial de l'emissora de ràdio sempre te les trobes, hi ensopegues! És el què tenen alguns "hits" o, encara pitjor, les "cançons d'estiu"...

Però un "hit" o una "cançó d'estiu" no sempre destorben quan te les trobes, n'hi ha que són de bon escoltar, de molt bon escoltar, com aquesta de Gotye, cançó i cantant que inevitablement et fan pensar en Sting, "algú que jo coneixia"... i no per casualitat!

Somebody That I Used To Know

Now and then I think of when we were together
Like when you said you felt so happy you could die
Told myself that you were right for me
But felt so lonely in your company
But that was love and it's an ache I still remember

You can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness
Like resignation to the end, always the end
So, when we found that we could not make sense
Well, you said that we would still be friends
But I'll admit that I was glad that it was over

But you didn't have to cut me off
Make out like it never happened and that we were nothing
And I don't even need your love
But you treat me like a stranger and that feels so rough
No, you didn't have to stoop so low
Have your friends collect your records and then change your number
I guess that I don't need, that though
Now you're just somebody that I used to know
Now you're just somebody that I used to know
Now you're just somebody that I used to know

Now and then I think of all the times you screwed me over
But had me believing it was always something that I'd done
But I don't wanna live that way, reading into every word you say
You said that you could let it go
And I wouldn't catch you hung up on somebody that you used to know

But you didn't have to cut me off
Make out like it never happened and that we were nothing
And I don't even need your love
But you treat me like a stranger and that feels so rough
No, you didn't have to stoop so low
Have your friends collect your records and then change your number
I guess that I don't need, that though
Now you're just somebody that I used to know

Somebody, I used to know
Somebody, now you're just somebody that I used to know
Somebody, I used to know
Somebody, now you're just somebody that I used to know

I used to know
That I used to know
I used to know
Somebody

Gotye