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Knowing that well meant critical acclaim from the press can only take you so far, The Sophomore Jinx decided to listen to what regular people around the globe had to say about their music. We decided to send out our new song “I left my heart in Vermont” to people across the world and asked for their honest opinion about the song and what color, taste, childhood event, experience, animal,… it reminded them of.

 

Here’s what they had to say:

 

Caio Ferri (19, Dourados, Brazil):   

“Não tenho certeza, mas essa seria uma das músicas que eu escutaria se eu estivesse ido para um lugar isolado e estivesse olhando o mar e tentando entender ou responder alguma situação pessoal. Eu talvez estivesse fumando e possivelmente estaria ventando, pode ser que não houvesse nada me preocupando, tão pouco me alegrando. Talvez eu só estivesse ali aproveitando a solidão.”

 

“I’m not sure, but this could be one of those songs I listen to when I go to some isolated place to watch the sea and try to get a grip on my personal situation. I would be smoking, and nothing would be bothering me … I would just stand there, enjoying the solitude.”

 

 

Margie Peirce (50, Harrisburg, USA) 

“I think this is strong music, underbuilt with emotions everyone has to face from time to time. I think it’s great how you can really be enjoying the music and then suddenly encounter yourself in the middle of the song…”

 

 

Roger Van Der Putten (74, Maaseik, België) 

“Ik moet zeggen, ik vind het op zich een schoon nummerken, maar het blijft een jammere zaak dat de jeugd niet meer in ‘t Nederlands wilt zingen. Al dat Engels versta ik niet en een schone tekst vind ik nog altijd het belangrijkst.”

 

“I have to say that, while I genuinely think it’s a good song, I’m still a bit saddened by the fact that today’s youth won’t sing in Dutch anymore. I don’t understand all that English stuff and I still think good lyrics are the biggest part of any song.”

 Juan de Bonrostro (32, Valladolid, Spanje) 

“Suena como si Enzo Scifo se hubiera levantado una mañana arrepentido por lo que le hizo a España en el Mundial de México de 1986. El caso es que, dentro de esa tristeza, hay una elegante belleza y algo de rabia contenida”

 

“It sounds like Enzo Scifo waking up one morning regretting what he did to Spain in the 1986 World Cup. Because there is a gentle beauty in the sadness – and a certain kind of anger that’s been kept inside”

 

Brandi Kautz (21, Meadville, USA)

“There's movement, lots of movement. Like rain drops falling slowly and then bouncing up from the ground unbroken. A lonely raindrop finds itself lost from the others, streaming through dirt and blades of grass. A foot stomps it unaware and suddenly many small droplets of water are on the move again, aimlessly. Until they meet a swiftly moving stream and become part of what once was many many lonely raindrops.” 

 

Shyam Singh (29, Gurgaon, India) 

"Brand new Converse shoes climbing on very old and never ending catacombs"

Hendrika Van Orshoven (24, Zaragoza, Spanje)  

“Dit nummer smaakt als Lindt chocolade Crema Catalana en doet mij denken aan Jef die diabolo speelt op plaza de San Felipe in Zaragoza”

 

“This song tastes like Lindt chocolat Crema Catalana and reminds me of Jef playing the diabolo on the Plaza de San Felipe in Zaragoza”

 

Emily Marron (20, Ohio, USA) 

“The song reminds me of laying in the grass on a warm, but breezy summer afternoon.”