{"id":1260,"date":"2011-03-25T16:56:30","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T20:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/?p=1260"},"modified":"2011-03-25T16:56:30","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T20:56:30","slug":"the-music-of-give-up-the-ghost-wise-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/25\/the-music-of-give-up-the-ghost-wise-up\/","title":{"rendered":"The music of Give Up the Ghost: &#8220;Wise Up&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tenth song from the unofficial <i>Give Up the Ghost<\/i> soundtrack is Aimee Mann&#8217;s &#8220;Wise Up&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"425\" height=\"349\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/_goEernujW8?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/_goEernujW8?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.songmeanings.net\/songs\/view\/39645\/\">Lyrically<\/a>, this song is one of the best literal fits for <i>Give Up the Ghost<\/i> (heck, the last words are &#8220;Give up&#8221;!), particularly for the last few chapters before Cass confronts Tim by the lake.  I see the first verse as relating to Cass, getting what she wants (revenge) and finding it doesn&#8217;t fix any of her problems, that she&#8217;s still not happy.  The second verse could easily refer to Tim, trying to cure his sadness by drinking.  And the repeated message of &#8220;It&#8217;s not going to stop\/until you wise up&#8221; could apply to both of them wallowing in the past, needing to really look and see what they have to live for.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also just a lovely, low key song that fits the mood of that section of the story well.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tenth song from the unofficial Give Up the Ghost soundtrack is Aimee Mann&#8217;s &#8220;Wise Up&#8221;: Lyrically, this song is one of the best literal fits for Give Up the Ghost (heck, the last words are &#8220;Give up&#8221;!), particularly for &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/25\/the-music-of-give-up-the-ghost-wise-up\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1260"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1262,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions\/1262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}