Butterfly in the sky? Pssh.I can go twice as high! (smirks)
― When the Pain That You Feel is the Bite of an Eel, That's a Moray (Old Lunch), Thursday, 17 March 2022 11:23 (two years ago) link
lol I did the exact same thing Le Bateau Ivre did 5 years ago, searching for and marveling at the lack of Weezer
― castanuts (DJP), Thursday, 17 March 2022 13:42 (two years ago) link
Rod Stewart's 2018 opioid crisis cash-in 'Didn't I' deserves some kind of award for pulling this stunt. it seems like he's trying to set a tone of tough love wrt to a father's inability to steer his child away from self-destructive choices, but he comes across as if he's waiting for her to wake up from her coma so that he can be certain his taunting and guilt tripping are actually getting through to her
There are times to rememberAnd times that I wish to forgetOur time together was tinged with love and regretOh, my girlMy sweet, sweet little girlDidn't I try to tell ya that life was for living?Oh, didn't I?And wasn't I the guy who said 'stay away from that tribe'?Oh, wasn't I?
Didn't I try to tell ya that life was for living?Oh, didn't I?And wasn't I the guy who said 'stay away from that tribe'?Oh, wasn't I?
Is this anti-semitism?
And didn't I try to tell you 'that's stuffs gonna kill ya'?Oh, didn't I?But you thought it was cool and I was just an old foolOh, look at yaYou left home for the city with Hollywood stars in your eyesNow your mother, God bless her, cries herself to sleep every nightOh my girl, my sweet innocent girlDidn't I search the streets for the beggars, pimps and cheats?Oh, didn't I?
You left home for the city with Hollywood stars in your eyesNow your mother, God bless her, cries herself to sleep every nightOh my girl, my sweet innocent girl
Didn't I search the streets for the beggars, pimps and cheats?Oh, didn't I?
"goddamnit, Fiona, I took cocaine up the ass in 1978, so I'm pretty sure I know a thing or two about drug culture"
And didn't I try to guide you to a baptism of fire?
"baptism by fire" = abusive parenting style
And didn't I try to warn ya 'bout that folk in California?Oh, didn't I?But you said 'daddy, please don't worry, I got friends out there who love me'Now look at ya
can't stand the way he repeats her words back to her in a mocking tone as if he's a 7-year-old playground bully
(Bridge: Bridget Cady)Oh baby, come back home, we can work this outThere is no blameI wanna hold you close and stroke your hair and share your pain
at this point mommy swoops in to do a little damage control. "there is no blame" despite the fact that daddy has already blamed his daughter, her friends, and an entire state for her predicament
Didn't I do the best for you, try to make you stay in school?Didn't I?Once I was your hero but I went from ten to zeroOh, didn't I?
accurate summation of Rod's career trajectory
Now listenFor a roll on the dice you nearly paid the ultimate priceOh, didn't ya?Now I stand by your bedside, watching you fight for you lifeWhere's the innocence? (Where's the innocence?)Where's the future? (Where is the future?)Where the beauty? (Ooo)Where's the promise? (Where is the promise?)
Where's the innocence? (Where's the innocence?)Where's the future? (Where is the future?)Where the beauty? (Ooo)Where's the promise? (Where is the promise?)
bleah
― in walked airbud (unregistered), Sunday, 10 April 2022 01:18 (two years ago) link
Where's the innocence? (Where's the innocence?)Where's the future? (Where is the future?)Where the beauty? (Ooo)Where's the promise? (Where is the promise?) Where's the innocence? (Where's the innocence?)Where's the future? (Where is the future?)Where the beauty? (Ooo)Where's the promise? (Where is the promise?) Where's the innocence? (Where's the innocence?)Where's the future? (Where is the future?)Where the beauty? (Ooo)Where's the promise? (Where is the promise?) Where's the innocence? (Where's the innocence?)Where's the future? (Where is the future?)Where the beauty? (Ooo)Where's the promise? (Where is the promise?)
― calstars, Sunday, 10 April 2022 01:28 (two years ago) link
Wonder if this song is (with a gender switch) directed at his son who appeared on Celebrity Rehab.
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 10 April 2022 04:17 (two years ago) link
Sounds like he’s singing to a member of the Manson family
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Sunday, 10 April 2022 13:06 (two years ago) link
I've not heard that Rod Stewart song before
Is it actually called "I don't mean to come on as a serious dick, but"
― Mark G, Sunday, 10 April 2022 13:18 (two years ago) link
…you broke my heart”
― middot • is • my • middle • name (breastcrawl), Sunday, 10 April 2022 13:32 (two years ago) link
“Have I Told You Lately that You Disappoint Me?”
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Sunday, 10 April 2022 14:08 (two years ago) link
Ok I am thinking about Wilson Phillips' song "Hold On," which is generally a supportive and caring message.
But then you get the line "You've got no one to blame for your unhappiness (no baby); you got yourself into your own mess."
Seriously? Fuck you, Carnie. You don't know anything about my life. For all you know, I'm unhappy because my parents were tortured and killed on the orders of Bashar Al-Assad. Then my few possessions were stolen by a crooked Turkish border agent. Pretty sure I've got people to blame.
― Nutellanor Roosevelt (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 13 June 2022 03:16 (one year ago) link
Though imagine it’s directed at John and Brian.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 13 June 2022 03:28 (one year ago) link
Hmm. I would say that in the Wilson Phillips oeuvre, the best zing against their parents comes in "The Dream Is Still Alive," which starts out as "Hippies were cool," but throws this elegant bit of shade:
Not so long ago in a purple hazePeople dreamed out loud they were not afraidThey stopped the war but not the dyingSome got a little bit lost along the way
But not quite right for this thread because that last bit is intentional.
― Nutellanor Roosevelt (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 13 June 2022 13:28 (one year ago) link
It's about the only U2 song I can countenance, but "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For", I mean, "I went through hell and high water just to be with you, and for what?!"
― henry s, Monday, 13 June 2022 14:43 (one year ago) link
Phil Oakey's bit in "Don't You Want Me," though the duet structure leavens it.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 13 June 2022 14:49 (one year ago) link
Maybe the character in Don't You Want Me isn't intentionally a dick, but surely Phil Oakey knew he was writing him that way.
― enochroot, Monday, 13 June 2022 14:53 (one year ago) link
― Antifa Sandwich Artist (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 13 June 2022 15:13 (one year ago) link
A save for "I Still Haven't Found...": The "you" is God? Note that elsewhere, a romantic partner appears in the third person, as "her."
Xpost!
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 13 June 2022 15:14 (one year ago) link
toxic divinity
― Gymnopédie Pablo (Neanderthal), Monday, 13 June 2022 15:17 (one year ago) link
A save for "I Still Haven't Found...": The "you" is God? Note that elsewhere, a romantic partner appears in the _third_ person, as "her."Xpost!
― Antifa Sandwich Artist (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 13 June 2022 19:14 (one year ago) link
_A save for "I Still Haven't Found...": The "you" is God? Note that elsewhere, a romantic partner appears in the _third_ person, as "her."Xpost!_I think the lyric is just about “not finding it” in erotic love.
― Antifa Sandwich Artist (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 13 June 2022 19:15 (one year ago) link
-in-
― Antifa Sandwich Artist (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 13 June 2022 19:16 (one year ago) link
Well, you have to think that Bono is a shitty lay, so that makes sense.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 13 June 2022 19:16 (one year ago) link
okay thanks for soiling my water
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 13 June 2022 19:19 (one year ago) link
― butt-mooning is a polysemous word, hoss! (breastcrawl), Monday, 13 June 2022 19:25 (one year ago) link
No serious dicking, for sure.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 13 June 2022 19:31 (one year ago) link
Hasn't Bono had the same girlfriend/ wife since childhood? So I can imagine his grasp on wooing, romancing, and heartbreak is tenuous.
Perhaps because of that, for Bono, romantic love is a metaphor for religion, and his "love" songs are almost always religious in character. Cf. "She moves in mysterious ways," that's a little too on the nose. Some of the same for Al Green, who has said "You Ought to Be With Me" was never about a woman.
Some have suggested that for Marvin Gaye, sexual freedom and human freedom are metaphors for one another.
― Nutellanor Roosevelt (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 14 June 2022 00:06 (one year ago) link
In actuality, romantic love is a metaphor for the Mexican Revolution. Which was itself a metaphor for pizza.
― Nutellanor Roosevelt (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 14 June 2022 00:08 (one year ago) link
She Looks Like Me,WithPlastic Jewels,On Low Rent Crown,IN TACKY VERSION OF BOB’S (“THE DRESS” ) MACKIE…SINGING”STILL HAVENT FOUND WHAT IM LOOKING FOR” FLAT🤮— Cher (@cher) June 11, 2022
― butt-mooning is a polysemous word, hoss! (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 14 June 2022 09:11 (one year ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/624-the-problem-with-ed-sheeran-and-nice-guys-like-him/
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 21 June 2022 09:03 (one year ago) link
Definitely. I remember an interview where he mentioned how bemused he is when people tell him it's one of the great love songs: "It's about coercion."
― Vast Halo, Tuesday, 21 June 2022 16:33 (one year ago) link
"I'll Be Doggone," an amazing composition/performance/recording, is unfortunately one of these:
I'll be doggone if you ain't a pretty thingAnd I'll be doggone if you ain't warm as a breath of springAnd if we live to be a hundred years oldIf you ever let that spring turn coldThen I wouldn't be doggoneHey, I'd be long gone
And if we live to be a hundred years oldIf you ever let that spring turn coldThen I wouldn't be doggoneHey, I'd be long gone
Like, okay buddy, we're both a hundred but sure, go play the field.
Well, every woman should try to beWhatever her man wants her to beAnd I don't want muchAll I want from youIs for you to be true to me
As well, all my life, I've thought Marvin Gaye then put the cherry on top by muttering "fetch me a drink" during the fade-out. But it's actually "catch me a train," which does admittedly fit the overall conceit better.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 22:38 (one year ago) link
some low-hanging fruit here. I only just now heard this song for the first time - it was a US number one hit in 2000, and as such is covered today by Tom Breihan in his Stereogum column. someone in the comments called it “the ultimate incel power ballad”:Somewhere there's speakingIt's already coming inOh and it's rising at the back of your mindYou never could get itUnless you were fed itNow you're here and you don't know whyBut under skinned knees and the skid marksPast the places where you used to learnYou howl and listenListen and wait for theEchoes of angels who won't returnHe's everything you wantHe's everything you needHe's everything inside of youThat you wish you could beHe says all the right thingsAt exactly the right timeBut he means nothing to youAnd you don't know whyYou're waiting for someoneTo put you togetherYou're waiting for someone to push you awayThere's always another wound to discoverThere's always something more you wish he'd sayHe's everything you wantHe's everything you needHe's everything inside of youThat you wish you could beHe says all the right thingsAt exactly the right timeBut he means nothing to youAnd you don't know whyBut you'll just sit tightAnd watch it unwindIt's only what you're asking forAnd you'll be just fineWith all of your timeIt's only what you're waiting forOut of the islandInto the highwayPast the places where you might have turnedYou never did noticeBut you still hide awayThe anger of angels who won't returnHe's everything you wantHe's everything you needHe's everything inside of youThat you wish you could beHe says all the right thingsAt exactly the right timeBut he means nothing to youAnd you don't know why
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 18:36 (one year ago) link
nice eh? but wait, Mr Vertical Horizon felt he hadn’t been enough of a serious dick without meaning to yet, so he thought he’d spell it out some more in the final chorus:*I am* everything you want*I am* everything you need*I am* everything inside of youThat you wish you could be*I say* all the right thingsAt exactly the right timeBut *I* mean nothing to you and *I* don't know whyAnd *I* don't know whyWhy*I* don't know
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 18:40 (one year ago) link
excellent pick imo. also never actually noticed any of the words to the verses past the first line, and they really do compound the judging/patronizing jerk portrait. it's particularly striking since (at least based on their other two hits off that album), Mr. Vertical Horizon is otherwise an evasive and vague lyricist to the point of near-incoherence...
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 17 August 2022 19:29 (one year ago) link
Even in the 70's this was a bit of an eye-roller, this lil' tidbit from "Summer Breeze":
And I come home from a hard day's workAnd you're waiting thereNot a care in the world
― henry s, Wednesday, 17 August 2022 19:33 (one year ago) link
I always thought Lou Bega came off like sort of a dick. Does Angela know about Pamela, Monica, Rita...?
― frogbs, Wednesday, 17 August 2022 19:37 (one year ago) link
I always kinda thought Adele came off like a dick in Hello, especially this line...
Hello from the outsideAt least I can say that I've triedTo tell you I'm sorry for breaking your heartBut it don't matter, it clearly doesn't tear you apart anymore
Like leave the poor guy alone, you broke his heart and he's happy now and you're upset he isn't hurt anymore?
― Will (kruezer2), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 19:45 (one year ago) link
lol, the Vertical Horizon song basically described me in my late teens/early 20s. very much an incel anthem (I was v much an incel then myself), the whole "I am empirically the right match for you because I check off all of your imaginary boxes, ergo this proves you should be with me and are wronging me by choosing someone else!"
also, to me, "saying the right things at exactly the right time" isn't a synonym for "being a comforting person", I know it's a common turn of phrase, but to me it's always read so transactional. "I rehearsed the things that I've been told are the things i should say to you when you are upset, ergo now I should get something out of it in return, right?".
― Weltanschauung Dunston (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 22:30 (one year ago) link
I thought that song was about Jesus?
― brimstead, Wednesday, 17 August 2022 23:22 (one year ago) link
Omg, the explanation from the band even worse
I was in love with this girl, and she was just a broken person. She kept turning to everyone except me for love and acceptance, and I wanted so much to help her. I wanted to be the one to give her everything she wanted, but I couldn't. She just couldn't accept it from me, and it was that pain, that led me to creating the song.
― Weltanschauung Dunston (Neanderthal), Thursday, 18 August 2022 00:07 (one year ago) link
I have no words for how repulsive that song was and remains. Truly genuinely nauseating. 🤮 to infinity He’s that guy with the poster boards in Love Actually but a little worse bc that was a character. This fool is real.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Thursday, 18 August 2022 00:28 (one year ago) link
she just couldn't accept it from me
― Weltanschauung Dunston (Neanderthal), Thursday, 18 August 2022 00:51 (one year ago) link
there is something deeply wrong with every sentence in that explanation
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Thursday, 18 August 2022 00:58 (one year ago) link
If you can't feed your baby (yeah, yeah)Then don't have a baby (yeah, yeah)And don't think maybe (yeah, yeah)If you can't feed your baby (yeah, yeah)You'll be always tryin'To stop that child from cryin'Hustlin', stealin', lyin'Now baby's slowly dyin'
― ledge, Monday, 22 May 2023 09:40 (eleven months ago) link
Pretty Woman, in which Roy Orbison claims he 'needs' a woman he's only just seen, threatens to cry if she ignores him.
― ledge, Monday, 22 May 2023 09:58 (eleven months ago) link
a classic trope, similarly employed by James Blunt in Beautiful
― corrs unplugged, Monday, 22 May 2023 10:06 (eleven months ago) link
and then there's come live with me by heaven 17, where the 37 year old singer does seem to be terminating his relationship with a 17 year old, though not without regrets, and the chorus is entirely unrepentant.
(i heard all three of these on the radio this weekend)
― ledge, Monday, 22 May 2023 10:10 (eleven months ago) link
Do They Know It's Christmas
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 22 May 2023 10:22 (eleven months ago) link
Yeah lol Ethiopia had been predominantly Christian for more than a thousand years when that song was written
― she works hard for the monkey (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 22 May 2023 12:01 (eleven months ago) link
YACHT GUY: there's a world outside your window,
― hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Monday, 22 May 2023 12:35 (eleven months ago) link