Gift for kuwdora by chaila (Transparent)

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Title of vid: Fame
Recipient: kuwdora
Vidder: chaila
Fandom: Transparent US (2014-)
Music: Fame by Mree
Summary: "No one's ever seen me but me." Maura, Sarah, Ali
Content notes: No standardized notes apply
Signed length: 04:28
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Lyrics
Baby, look at me

And tell me what you see

You ain’t seen the best of me yet

Give me time I’ll make you forget the rest



I got more in me

And you can set it free

I can catch the moon in my hands

Don’t you know who I am



Remember my name

I’m gonna live forever

I’m gonna learn how to fly high

I feel it coming together

People will see me and cry, fame

I’m gonna make it to heaven

Light up the sky like a flame, fame

I’m gonna live forever

Baby, remember my name



Baby, hold me tight

‘Cause you can make it right

You can shoot me straight to the top

Give me love and take all I’ve got to give



Baby, I’ll be tough

Too much is not enough

I can ride your heart till it breaks

Ooh, I got what it takes



Fame, I’m gonna live forever

I’m gonna learn how to fly high

I feel it coming together

People will see me and cry, fame

I’m gonna make it to heaven

Light up the sky like a flame, fame

I’m gonna live forever

Baby, remember my name

Comments

[kuwdora]

this vid? is magnificent. where do I even start? the song choice. This song choice--this cover is layers upon layers of thoughtful awesomeness. The original is campy gay, 80s awesome--paired with Transparent would make this a VERY DIFFERENT VID. But omg, this cover is beautiful. I've never heard it before but the way that it alters the feeling and mood of the song is really emotional in a way I wasn't expecting. It ends up being more somber, melancholy, but still raw and fierce as hell and I love how that atmosphere of the music matches a lot of the fraught, conflicted feelings towards trying to be yourself and finding the happiness you know is just out of reach.

I love the construction of the vid, going from Maura to Sarah and Ali and back again. How it really does highlight how they're all still on their own journeys even though they all diverge wildly.

it's fucking heartbreaking, and i love the way that you've used the scene at the LGBT center as a grounding piece for the narrative because goddamnit, family, that was Maura's time to shine.

the juxtaposition between Maura at the cross dressing daycamp, dancing with the cool wife, and then the first time Maura shows her own wife who she really is-- omg it's amazing "baby hold me tight / because you can make it right" wanting acceptance and love for being who you are -- and the way it follows up with Alli dressing up for her hot date, omg, this is just fantasticcccccc all around.


pairing the girls lives when they're young and searching for love and happiness (alli on the beach with the dude in the overalls, Sarah on the bus with the girl) with Maura entering that room at the party with everyone dancing and finding that same happiness ! AUGH THIS VID IS GETTING ME THE FEELS RIGHT IN THE TICKER.

I also love that I watched the show recently enough to get the context of that final clip: where Mort decides to go by Maura, with the lyric remember my name -- SO FUCKING GREAT.

vidder, I appreciate the depth and nuance you have put into this. it is everything that i ever dreaaaaaaaaaamed of for a Transparent vid OMFG.

*clutches vid tight* this is beautiful, absolutely beautiful. thank you SO MUCH !!!!

[chaila]

Auuuuugh, THIS COMMENT, it made me cry when you left it! <3 I'm so pleased so much of what I was thinking and trying to convey came across. The song choice, YES, I loved it not just for itself (though it's gorgeous) for also for what it's a cover OF and how I hoped that added to the meaning of it.

the scene at the LGBT center as a grounding piece for the narrative because goddamnit, family, that was Maura's time to shine

I AM STILL SO MAD AT THEM. That whole sequence is just so heartbreaking, get your shit together, family! This show was so, so good at complex, nuanced emotions, like I'm so mad at the kids for their selfishness there and yet also love them all for all the ways they want to be seen and loved, and I want them all to see each other and connect and argh my feels. Maura's joy is so fragile, it's so happy and precarious, I cannot even stand it.

the juxtaposition between Maura at the cross dressing daycamp, dancing with the cool wife, and then the first time Maura shows her own wife who she really is-- omg it's amazing "baby hold me tight / because you can make it right" wanting acceptance and love for being who you are

I WANTED THIS TO WORK SO MUCH. So so happy it worked for you!

Thank you for taking the time to leave me such an awesome comment, and for being awesome. I am SO HAPPY you liked it! :DDD

[kuwdora]

I will be able to talk to you about this vid forever.