| Madonna – Take A Bow Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I also feel this is Madonna's best song. I interperet this entirely about her relationship with Sean Penn. I don't think she'll ever truly be "over" him. Look at all of her failed relationships after. It makes the song that much more poignant and personal. She really pours herself out on this one. On a side note, Rolling Stone listed "Like a Prayer" as the only Madonna song in their Top 500 Songs ever - big mistake. This song is 10 times better, albeit less 'controversial'. |
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| Joe Jackson – Real Men Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This is a powerful song, and I highly recommend you see the video. I've seen it numerous times on VH1 Classics. This song is about how society is changing men for the worse. Joe Jackson was observing that even back in 1982 society was destroying traditional notions about what it means to be a "real man", and I appreciate his anger at the situation. If you've seen the video you'd understand. Although he mentions gays in the song it is by no means about gays (male or female) at all - sorry. Rather, the protagonist in the video is a chivalrous idealist who grows up watching old movies of Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne and James Dean. The first scene shows him as a child as he rescues a girl from a pack of bullies. Later he is shown as a teenager with a girlfriend (maybe the same girl from the first scene), however she is cold and distant from him because society no longer sees him as a "real man". As they drive along he passes by two gay men and is bewildrered and struggles with these changes. In the end she ends up going to a bar and hooks up with the same bullies that abused her as a child because they are "real men". Brokenhearted and angry he ends up driving his car off a cliff a-la James Dean who also died in a car crash. Thus symbolizing the death of the traditional notion that a "real man" is chivalrous. Twenty five years later we have to ask ourselves - what is a "real man"? |
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