How Much Can Love Really do?

How Much Can Love Really do?

The iconic lyrics, “When you kiss me heaven sighs/ And though I close my eyes/I see la vie en rose”, depict the most sought after feeling in the world: Love. Love is the feeling that transforms all. Love can make the world seem different- beauty and light may shine through even the most mundane of texts.

Now, the connection between a song played in the Disney animated movie, Wall-E , may not seem the most obvious of connections, but bare with me.

“Experience”, written by Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the song “La Vie en Rose” by Daniela Andrade are connected as they both describe the heavy impact of different perspectives in life.

Emerson describes “Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus.” Excerpt From: “Transcendentalist Readings.” iBooks.

And in “La Vie en Rose”, the Pilaf, and in Louis Armstrong’s rendition himself, and in Daniela Andrade’s rendition herself (this song is sure covered a lot). They are  madly in love- extremely in Love. And when they are in love, everything is beautiful.

Similar to Pilaf’s lyrics in “La Vie en Rose”, Emerson shows how a specific event can affect one’s perspective, providing color, a hue, light and may even shield one from the dark and ugly in the world.