{"id":4673,"date":"2025-02-17T20:09:53","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T19:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregoryderville.com\/?p=4673"},"modified":"2026-03-23T19:44:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T18:44:17","slug":"tom-petty-learning-to-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregoryderville.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/17\/tom-petty-learning-to-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Petty &#8211; \u00ab\u00a0Learning to fly\u00a0\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6cff456e6e21cecf6fc7b38692505008 wp-block-paragraph\">Le huiti\u00e8me album de Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, \u00ab\u00a0Into the great wide open\u00a0\u00bb, est sorti en 1991. Tom Petty vient alors de r\u00e9aliser un carton aux \u00c9tats-Unis avec ses pr\u00e9c\u00e9dents disques, mais celui-ci marchera un peu moins bien. Il est pourtant tr\u00e8s plaisant, avec son alternance de ballades folk et de <a href=\"https:\/\/gregoryderville.com\/index.php\/tag\/soft-rock\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/gregoryderville.com\/index.php\/tag\/soft-rock\/\">soft-rock<\/a> basique et efficace, ses refrains et ses m\u00e9lodies qui se retiennent facilement, ses solos de guitare juste assez prenants mais pas trop longs ni ostentatoires, ses arrangements sobres mais fins, ses choeurs tranquilles, ses textes qui racontent des histoires simples de la vie quotidienne dans l&rsquo;Am\u00e9rique profonde\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-09c84dfb9b62ff763f5fc373c1651f86 wp-block-paragraph\">C&rsquo;est tr\u00e8s loin d&rsquo;\u00eatre un de mes albums pr\u00e9f\u00e9r\u00e9s, c&rsquo;est un peu trop bien ficel\u00e9 et trop bien l\u00e9ch\u00e9 pour \u00eatre vraiment emballant, mais \u00e7a se laisse quand m\u00eame \u00e9couter tr\u00e8s agr\u00e9ablement, un peu comme un \u00ab\u00a0bon petit vin\u00a0\u00bb sans pr\u00e9tention qui accompagne gentiment un joyeux repas avec de bons amis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5b7032ae75470c0c98226a8de644b03c wp-block-paragraph\">\u00ab\u00a0Larning to fly\u00a0\u00bb est la chanson qui ouvre l&rsquo;album, d&rsquo;une mani\u00e8re l\u00e9g\u00e8re et entra\u00eenante, plus d&rsquo;ailleurs dans la musique que dans le th\u00e8me qu&rsquo;elle aborde, car celui-ci a son lot d&rsquo;ambigu\u00eft\u00e9: \u00e7a parle du d\u00e9sir de s&rsquo;envoler, mais aussi de la d\u00e9ception que l&rsquo;on ressent en constatant que ce n&rsquo;est pas possible, que l&rsquo;on n&rsquo;y arrive pas, ou en tous cas qu&rsquo;il faut bien finir par retomber, et que l&rsquo;atterrissage est rude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-96bc45d075ce740200cd054a715223b3 wp-block-paragraph\">Peut-\u00eatre que le plus difficile et le plus important dans la vie, ce n&rsquo;est pas d&rsquo;apprendre \u00e0 d\u00e9coller, mais plut\u00f4t d&rsquo;apprendre \u00e0 atterrir. Collectivement, apr\u00e8s avoir largement fait p\u00e9ter le plafond des fronti\u00e8res \u00e9cologiques (notamment \u00e0 cause de cette illustration moderne du r\u00eave d&rsquo;Icare qu&rsquo;est l&rsquo;aviation civile), l&rsquo;Humanit\u00e9 n&rsquo;est clairement pas pr\u00eate \u00e0 redescendre sur terre (c&rsquo;est-\u00e0-dire \u00e0 d\u00e9cro\u00eetre), et je ne me fais plus aucune illusion sur le fait qu&rsquo;elle y arrive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-55206972c57601ffc7395dc53c651dc2 wp-block-paragraph\">Mais \u00e0 titre individuel, accepter de ne s&rsquo;envoler que dans nos r\u00eaves, nos passions ou nos relations humaines, c&rsquo;est dans nos mains. Il y a d\u00e9j\u00e0 l\u00e0 bien assez pour planer, fort heureusement\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9ac00cf961d1ea846fe5a532228b76c6 wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2cd58ec022d0e7737bdac4bdc9ad2bb3 wp-block-paragraph\">\u00ab\u00a0I&rsquo;m learning to fly<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1a11a540ef0de11abb58b3bbf55b5b3d wp-block-paragraph\">but I ain&rsquo;t got wings<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7422a6ce5c04d8c2b6541464f8a084d1 wp-block-paragraph\">Coming down<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-58c88efc5e9db0f382bd7b9c0545b5e6 wp-block-paragraph\">is the hardest thing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-05ff1cf80ebbd6f7c5a1c47565df05c7 wp-block-paragraph\">(\u2026)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a2e69ad7b861e644a665e03e18fa17d7 wp-block-paragraph\">I&rsquo;m learning to fly<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-15c38a0ec69f702cea0d742292440b54 wp-block-paragraph\">around the clouds<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-0a0759ced9a3313dd5cf25745ca4ffe0 wp-block-paragraph\">but what goes up<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e249d8b34507ae7a0521daa915ce313d wp-block-paragraph\">must come down\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - Learning To Fly (Version 1)\" width=\"1230\" height=\"692\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s5BJXwNeKsQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<!-- templates\/buttons-placeholder.php -->\n<div class=\"da-reactions-outer TpostID4673\">\n\t    <div class=\"da-reactions-data da-reactions-container-async center\"\n         data-type=\"post\"\n         data-id=\"4673\"\n         id=\"da-reactions-slot-post-4673\">\n        <div class=\"da-reactions-exposed\">\n\t\t\t<img src=\"https:\/\/gregoryderville.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/da-reactions\/assets\/dist\/loading.svg\" alt=\"Loading spinner\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" style=\"width:64px\" \/>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le huiti\u00e8me album de Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, \u00ab\u00a0Into the great wide open\u00a0\u00bb, est sorti en 1991. 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