During the year I took off graduate school I worked in DC and took in a Washington Capitals game. One of the intermission entertainments was a performance by Lynn-Holly Johnson the star for Ice Castles. It was quite impressive and so I went to see the movie too. This is the theme song from Ice Castles and plays during the climatic scene when she triumphs in a skating competition. [Spoiler] I still get teary eyed at the moment the crowd begins to realize that she is blind as she trips over the flowers thrown to the ice. There are occasional moments in quite mundane movies and shows that somehow are transcendent despite the ordinariness of their surroundings. [The ballroom scene in the recent Cinderalla where Lily James bursts into the room just as the waltz is to start comes to mind as another.] For me, this song recalls that very special moment and feeling.
This is a fun little song but what really caught me was the many times repeated lyric "I know I'm not the center of the universe, but you keep spinning round me just the same." My first dance teacher would often tell the men/leaders that in many of the moves they should be trying to stay in much the same spot and their partners were the ones who truly moved. "Your partner is a moon orbiting around you." Seeing this repeated in Heavy tickled my fancy. So it's a rare song that I paid for! Songs back in the day had simple overall structures ababa or aabbaa or something, but Heavy is more of a novel with beginning middle and end. Just enough repitition to hold it together.
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