iTunes Single of the Week: Jesus from Savior to a metaphor for an artist's infatution: Borne, "The Guide" meanspace=666 milliseconds per beat

This week’s iTunes Single of the Week, downloadable free this week only, is a song by Borne, called “The Guide,” a song that shines as a symbol for what we can do here and what we cannot do if the West is overtaken.
What does that mean? In the song, Borne sings about the joy of his new love. The song blasphemes Christianity in the process: the love object, presumably a woman, has become such an important focus of the Borne’s attention that we are told, “You are, My Jesus/You are, My Savior…” Is it an accident that there are 666 milliseconds for each beat he plays? Yes! A numerical quirk only, sorry.
Ok—he’s rocketed into enthusiasm by this new love-- I can understand that. But: “You are my Jesus, you are my Savior???” Sex is the only religion left, apparently, for many. I saw Sting last year with Annie Lennox where Gordon pronounced: “Music and sex are the only religion.” Ok, whatever. Flaunt that atheism!—Lord knows I’ve seen enough tacky crucifixes in my day, so why not proclaim your atheism, as this song does?
There are so many “blasphemous” songs, you say—why single this one out for criticism? Answer: there’s a term we all know and we all know why I cannot use it—but it is a word that describes a man that is, well, overly in love with his woman. I’ve been there—I can understand that completely. What baffles me is the ‘Jesus/Savior’ line. In other religions, using parallel terms for the [Force], you’d get beheaded in town square—a Fatwah might even be issued against your whole family.
Put it this way: Borne, if she’s your Jesus and Savior: great! Just make sure you don’t fall out of love with her, then in love with a strict Islamist and start throwing parallel language around, ok? There are enough fatwahs against the West in general already.
The elemental speeds of the recording are:

meanspeed=90.1 beats per minute, as a waltz
meanemotion=enthusiasm
meanspace=0.666 seconds per beat
meanphase=1.50 beats per second
meanpitch=384.52 hertz, 66 cents higher than F#4/Gb4=369.994 hertz, 34 cents lower than G4=391.995 hertz.

Ian Schneider
Meanspeed.com
February 13, 2007