| Bob Dylan – Like a Rolling Stone Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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It's funny because this song is both finger pointing and yet self-deprecating. The title..."Like a Rolling Stone" gives it away. Dylan is now like one of the Rolling Stones (another popular group of the time who were named that in 1962 way before 1965 when this song appeared) because he went from folk to rock. As far as an exegesis of the lyrics, it seems like many find the origins of the allusions in 60s figures, but I don't think this song is just about particular people or famous ones in particular, otherwise it wouldn't be so stinging and personal. How does it feel....how do *you* feel? It seems like Dylan is speaking to everyone including himself, but especially the 1950s generation growing up and heading into the hippie world of the 1960s. In today's times of a downtrodden middle class, you have to remember that the teenagers who formed the counterculture were somewhat wealthy. Their parents could easily afford college, and cars and travel. Yet many threw it all away to experience "real life". And many found out, as Dylan records, how hard that can be. That the drugs, and kicks, aren't really free, and that there are people who want to take more than give, while you're trying to have your free society. Yet the song is cathartic in the spirit of Been Down So Long, It Feels Like Up To Me....you go down the tunnel of casting off everything, all illusion, and you end up stripped, invisible (like Ralph Elison's Invisible Man). How does it feel? At the end...it feels great. |
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| The Beatles – Hello, Goodbye Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I always thought this was Paul singing to John about possible friction in the group signaling the impending break up. It's a good song, but it sounds a bit more like a Paul McCartney and Wings tune -- all Paul even on the refrain vocals. In the video Lennon is barely lip syncing and Harrison has only a few seconds of solo guitar. You can imagine Lindy McCartney filling in for the backing vocals without much loss here. |
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| The Beatles – Hello, Goodbye Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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You could be right. I just watched the video and it features hulu dancers at the end! http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xilr3e_the-beatles-hello-goodbye-high-quality_music |
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| Lorde – Royals Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I like this comment because it correctly identifies the royals as Hip Hop Royalty. I would add that "caught up in your love affair" refers to Beyonce and Jay-Z, whose constant media presence induces us all to live along with it. So, there is something of class consciousness here, but also, more interestingly is a rebellion of against a globalism that puts an obviously foreign culture (in this case, Wealthy Rappers) into the midst of teens living on a remote Pacific Island and expects them to make sense of it. So, to respond to "reshelton" it's not simply about money but about cultural identity. She doesn't see diamond wedding rings in part because no one gets married any more. So it's not the typical poor little rich girl whining, so much as a young person pointing at the Pop Emperors' New Bling and saying, I don't see it...it doesn't relate to my life here and now. If anything, I'm surprised the reaction took so long. |
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| The Beatles – Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| If it was a reference then perhaps the "monkey" part came from some of the virulent racist slurs that were hurled against he and Yoko. They took the hate and flung it back at them in derision. Something Lennon did all the time. | |
| Jethro Tull – Cross-Eyed Mary Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I believe it's entirely the other way round. She is a teenage girl born in the slums, but "older than her years". She is picked up by a rich Highgate man or men, and paid well. Because she gets money, her neighborhood gets money. She's even willing to give Aqualung a freebie now and then "for a song" (which is slang for not much money). Gets no kicks from little boys is an exaggerated way of saying, she doesn't relate to people in school her own age. She's a poor man's rich girl because she makes enough money to put her above her neighbors, but at the same time she'll never leave her station. This song merely portrays. It does not judge. |
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