Speaking of music and how it reflects (and sometimes drives), the era and the relationship between men and women, here is Christina Aguilera singing and dancing “Candyman,” in a reimagined WWII.*

(Maybe I’m wrong–having been born at the very end of WWII, and not there to witness what went on–but I say “reimagined,” because I believe that they would probably never have gotten away with this level of suggestive performance in, say, a general release film, in the actual time period.)

• See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbjC9Co0pBc

I have an old high school friend who bought a house in Newbury Park, CA. He would frequent a local diner and sit at the counter late at night. He noticed an older gentleman sitting near by, who looked familiar.

My friend is an outgoing LA guy who doesn’t go shy in the face of celebrities. He started up a conversation and damn, if it wasn’t Artie Shaw, close to his 90s.
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Shaw was also a precision marksman, ranking fourth in the United States in 1962, and an expert fly fisherman. In his later years, Shaw lived and wrote in the Newbury Park section of Thousand Oaks, California.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artie_Shaw

I had no idea that Sheryl Crow had covered “Begin the Beguine” so stylishly. Good for her!

For the record it’s a 1930s Cole Porter song. Artie Shaw, I believe, performed the definitive Big Band number that some may still remember:

–Artie Shaw, “Begin The Beguine ( Cole Porter )” (~1938)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCYGyg1H56s

I danced to it in the 1999 Retro Swing thing. Beguine, I am informed is:
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Beguine : a vigorous popular dance of the islands of Saint Lucia and Martinique that somewhat resembles the rumba

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beguine

However, these two pieces of fairly recent music and performances just popped into my head as representing two very different mindsets when it comes to love and to the relationship between the two sexes.

• See Cheryl Crow singing “Begin the Beguine” at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cr0WT2TFY8&list=WL&index=2

• See Miley Cyrus singing “Flowers” at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl0f_V2KhgI&list=WL&index=3

Astronomer and Computer Engineer Dr. Vallee has been studying the UFO Phenomenon for more than 30 years now and, based on the scientific evidence he has observed, his view of what this phenomenon might be has evolved—from an initial belief that this phenomenon is essentially extraterrestrial in nature to his current belief, that this Phenomenon is more likely to be “Interdimensional” in nature i.e. originating in Environments or Realities directly adjacent to our own and that, moreover, the essentially absurd nature of UFO phenomena points to this phenomena as being a psychological “control mechanism”.

Thus, says Vallee, whatever entity or force is behind these phenomena is trying to manipulate human belief, to steer human consciousness, our beliefs, in a certain direction.

The linked YouTube video provides a very elegantly and beautifully illustrated summary of his thinking and viewpoint.*

• See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGC-LISVRQQ

Linked below is a very clear, logical, detailed, and very frightening explication by Dr. David Betz–Professor of War in the Modern World in the War Studies Department of King’s College, London–of all of the factors which he sees as being present, and indicating that Civil War will very likely be breaking out in the nations of the West, he guesses sometime within the next couple of years, with–if he had to guess–the most likely first outbreak taking place in Ireland. *

I find the factors and scenarios he lays out to be far too convincing, and he believes that once a Civil War breaks out in one country it will spread to others.

* See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bg5_Wbeu14