By Jeff Copperthite:
Welcome to your Monday edition of The Laptop Sessions. I’d like to take this opportunity (since everyone reads descriptions) to say hello to another wave of students who have discovered their math/science teacher is on Youtube.
Anyway, todays song is an awesome song from REM called “Losing My Religion”. It’s from their 1991 album “Out of Time” which contains this song among other well known songs such as “Shiny Happy People” and “Radio Song”.
I love this song a lot and always turn it up when it comes on the radio. The video is always an interesting one to watch as well. Few are sure of what the song is about – I think it could be about a forceful religious conversion.
I hope you enjoy this version – even though I sang a slightly incorrect line in the last chorus. I think this version was a great one and I hope you agree!
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This is one in a series of acoustic cover songs, original music, and free mp3 downloads here on the Laptop Sessions Music Video Blog.
March 4th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
I’ve read that it’s about the lead singer coming out about his “orientation” to the world. This song is quite famous for that reason, actually. Don’t hear very many “coming out” songs like this one. Plus, he puts it in such a negative light because most religious folk would assume that homosexuality is “losing your religion”.