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Joan of Arc. A French patron saint who helped place Charles VII on the throne. A military expert who helped protect her country during the Hundred’s Years War. A feminist icon of self-empowerment and defiance of the patriarchy. She is a name of many accomplishments, and yet who she was as both Joan of Arc and simply Joan is lost to the ages. As time goes by, stories are told differently. Details change or are lost in translation. Eventually, identities and histories change forever from their original forms.
This song, by the artist Madilyn Mei, discusses how her identity and how people remember her has changed over the centuries, and how history immortalizing her, the Joan of Arc we know and the true Joan will never be the same again. The song is part of her album “The Bard”, which talks a lot about self-identity and accomplishments throughout life in a folksy musical style. Madilyn Mei herself lives in Arizona and has become a popular artist among niche music communities. This lyric video is one I made using her lyrics, and attempts to embody the medieval vibes of the song and album by making the background a scrolling piece of worn parchment paper.
Lyrics:
Did God send you
Marching in?
Steadfast and true
To the end
Cut your long hair
Be a man
Kneel to the servant
Call him your King
Do what you must and then
Run, go back to your home
History is no one’s friend
Now you’ll never be known
As only Joan again
As only Joan again
Were you who they
Say you were
Lost to time
Stories blurred
Was your hair
Brown or blonde?
Were you ever there?
Either way, now you’re gone
Run, go back to your home
History is no one’s friend
Now you’ll never be known
As only Joan again
Run, go back to your home
History is no one’s friend
Now you’ll never be known
As only Joan again
As only Joan again
Oh Joan
I’ll twist and I’ll change
My name rearrange
Time makes us inhuman
I’ll live and I’ll die
But if immortalized
You’ll never be you again
Also, if I had a nickel for every folksy song from a niche internet music artist I discovered in the last 4 months that revolve around Joan of Arc, then I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.