Tiny dancer what is song about

The mere mention of "Tiny Dancer" often brings up the classic song's appearance in Cameron Crowe's semi-autobiographical Almost Famous. But even before that movie came out, the Elton John - Bernie Taupin composition, which opens 's Madman Across the Water , was a staple of classic-rock radio playlists.

There's video of John talking about and playing the song shortly after he started writing it. I looked through all the lyrics and this is the one I fancied writing, mainly because I knew Bernie would like me to do this one, because it's about his girlfriend. In Madman Across the Water 's liner notes, the song is dedicated to Maxine Feibelman, who was the "seamstress for the band" and had become Taupin's first wife by the time the album was released. Taupin told Rolling Stone in that she was the song's muse.

It was the perfect Oedipal complex. Fences are immediately mended because the song has reminded them just why they came together in the first place. Such is the power of this song whose longevity and impact has long since overwhelmed the initial humdrum reaction to it. But one mystery remains. Luckily, Bernie Taupin has the answer. Bernie told me and other friends and family that Tiny Dancer was about Maxine.

They got married very young, and Bernie had a lot of issues of his own back then, and not surprisingly Maxine had enough and moved on. But it also discussed me that so many so-called journalists take this new story at face value when there is plenty of evidence in the past to prove that Bernie wrote the song about Maxine. It seemed like the populace is radiating sunshine. The lyrics of the song capture the spirit of California from Talking about the meaning of Tiny Dancer, Bernie Taupin said that he was just trying to capture the spirit of that time.

He shared that he was encapsulated by the women they met, especially at the clothes stores and restaurants and bars during the Sunset Strip. He further mentioned that the women were very contrasting to what he had seen in England. He also added that the women had a thing about embroidering clothes and they wanted to sew patches on the jeans.

Bernie Taupin had called it a perfect oedipal complex. They were inspired by Taupin's first trip to America. John and Taupin are from England, and this was the first album they wrote after spending time in the US. She traveled with the band on their early tours, often sewing together the costumes and fixing their clothes.

She and Taupin were wed in This album was much more heavily-produced than Elton's first 4. It was one of his first songs with a lush string section arranged by Paul Buckmaster, who arranged the stings on many of Elton's albums as well as songs by The Rolling Stones, Train, and Leonard Cohen. Ron Cornelius, who played guitar on Cohen's album Songs Of Love And Hate, told us: "Buckmaster is a wonderful string arranger, he's just one of these guys who can make an orchestra talk.

In other words, if the strings aren't saying something, it ain't on the record. This was featured in the movie Almost Famous. It is used in a scene where the band is mad at each other, but remembers why they love music when they all start singing this on their tour bus. He hated it. On the show, he claimed he wanted the nickname Tony "Extrava" Danza. I personally think its about a struggling dancer, who falls in love with the narrorator, in L.

I think it means she's ignoring the ones she truly loves, when he says "turning back, she just laughs," "ballerina, you must of seen her, is because she got famous and i think "the words she knows," maybe the musician she married to become successful, just pushed her in the background, to be his back-up singer, I think she somehow dies, and the narrorator obviouslly still loved her, and is mourning her death, and hes still poor, Im not sure, thats just what I imagine.

Love the song. BermudaMay on February 01, This song was written by lyricist Bernie Taupin, he and Elton wrote many songs together. Bernie and Maxine were only married a few years before they divorced so it's without surprise that Bernie now claims the song was just inspired by the bands first trip to the US and the free spirited women of California PrincessLeon on November 26, So she became the singer's inspiration, she became his muse.

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