| Frank Zappa – You Are What You Is Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Oh, a couple of other things. In addition to Tiger Woods, the song may have influenced the WWE Professional Wrestling script-writers in their creation of the character Kerwin White. Chevo Guerrero is a famous wrestler from the famous Mexican Guerrero wrestling family, and he often featured in some of the inter-racial storylines from the WWE ballet-soap-opera. One such storyline led to his changing of persona to the extremely ridiculous "Kerwin White", a stereotypical, middle-class, white, conservative, Anglo-American man. He dyed his hair blond and often drove a golf cart to the ring which held his golf clubs. Rejecting his ethic heritage in favor of aspirations such as joining the country club was portrayed as negative and socially offensive. This was when he was running as a "baddie" or "heel" wrestler, whereas he had often been a populist crowd favorite as his natural Mexican self. It was an amusing presentation of extremely pretentious upwardly-mobile-driven bad behavior and snobbery when it came to interactions with former associates and wrestlers from other ethnic groups. You might also like to check out Henrietta Collins and the Wifebeating Child Haters' "Drive By Shooting"(featuring Henry Rollins), a mini-album Henry Rollins made with Henrietta Collins that features a couple of Afro-American culture issues seriously dealt to from a white perspective (although I can not attest to the ethnic group or gender of Henrietta Collins). Again, like the Zappa song and the Kerwin White storyline, it just seems like artistic commentary. The Drive by Shooting mini-album seemed to anticipate gangsta style if not gangsta rap, although the title track and "Hey Henrietta" come very close. Thoroughly recommended R18 stuff !! |
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| Frank Zappa – You Are What You Is Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Well spotted jonje, but I reckon that given the time this song emerged (1981) it's more likely that Woods was actually inspired by this song, and that this song is actually part of the Tiger Woods success story ! Just12, I see your comment is from 2008, so are you now Just19 ? So, hey nineteen (a great Steely Dan song), do you think this song has anything to do with Aretha Franklin ? Zappa's song strikes me as clearly lampooning just the sort of racial stereotypes that Amos'n'Andy and culture from that time perpetuated. I think you have the wrong end of the stick Mr Just. Zappa led a racially-integrated band and this song was co-sung by either Ike Willis or Ray White, both of whom are Afro-American. What do you think they thought of it ? Racist ? It seems to include both an attack on white musicians borrowing the blues and black guys aspiring to be yuppies. The black guy adopts some of the more saccharin aspects of white middle-class culture and the white guy starts to express inverted-snobbery. It's not taking the mickey out of real Afro-American lifestyles or values, more just a song about fashion victims. It's also very much of it's time, the early '80s, a time when people of all works of life were very much into appearances. Well I guess they still are, but the racial and class roles of the '80s seemed very caricatured, with the benefit of hindsight. Zappa hated the rise of the yuppies. He hated hipsters who were "slumming". He spent most of his oeuvre critiquing people. He was an equal opportunity misanthropist. |
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| Brian Eno – The True Wheel Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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No, nothing to do with lobbers. Who looked as if they could ? The lobbers ? Wrong ! "We saw the Lovers, the Modern Lovers, and they looked very good, they looked as if they could." It's a joke about a very cool band The Modern Lovers inspired by the Velvet Underground (just as Eno had been) and "taking off" in an underground way in the early '70s. Their first album is a magnificent album, but they played live without any record to sell during the early '70s, the album only got released after they'd become a different band, so the only way to enjoy the band was to "see" the band live, back then in 1974, when the album this song comes from was made. Calling yourself "The Modern Lovers", what a great band name. Eno's remarking that they "looked as if they could [do it Modern, that they looked like they could be real Modern Lovers]" is a cute in-joke and a tribute of sorts. Ex-VU member John Cale produced their early efforts but Jerry Harrison ended up moving from the Modern Lovers to Talking Heads. Eno is giving his thumbs up to the band, just as he later would with "King's Lead Hat" (an anagram of "Talking Heads"). The first album got held up for years, which meant The Modern Lovers didn't get the recognition they deserved while they were playing that material, and the band splintered. So back in 1974, this is Eno giving the Lovers some much-needed promotion. |
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| Electric Light Orchestra – Turn To Stone Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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The singer finds that sometimes he is actually more aroused when his lover is absent, but occasionally he imagines he's interested when she's on the way ("I turn to stone, when you comin' home"). When she's not there he gets sore. Alternative meaning: he finds her frigidity rubs off on him, but occasionally when she does seem to be excited by him it which feels better. He's pleading for her to get more into it. |
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| Electric Light Orchestra – Turn To Stone Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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The singer finds that sometimes he is actually more aroused when his lover is absent, but occasionally he imagines he's interested when she's on the way ("I turn to stone, when you comin' home"). When she's not there he gets sore. Alternative meaning: he finds her frigidity rubs off on him, but occasionally when she does seem to be excited by him it which feels better. |
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| Electric Light Orchestra – Turn To Stone Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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The singer finds that sometimes he is actually more aroused when his lover is absent, but occasionally he imagines he's interested when she's on the way ("I turn to stone, when you comin' home"). When she's not there he gets sore. Alternative meaning: he finds her frigidity rubs off on him, but occasionally when she does seem to be excited by him it which feels better. |
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| Electric Light Orchestra – Turn To Stone Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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The singer finds that sometimes he is actually more aroused when his lover is absent, but occasionally he imagines he's interested when she's on the way ("I turn to stone, when you comin' home"). When she's not there he gets sore. Alternative meaning: he finds her frigidity rubs off on him, but occasionally when she does seem to be excited by him it which feels better. |
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| Electric Light Orchestra – Turn To Stone Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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