Please go back in time and hit your past self upside the head with a rhyming dictionary. "Kentucky Fried" should never be used as a rhyme outside of godawful American Country-and-Western songs. There's better poetic rhymes, like "lied" or "cried" or "hide". Maybe even "wide." But not "Kentucky Fried." That just ruins it.
A song-writer as proficient and accomplished as Mr Gabriel does not choose words just on the basis of rhyme - the words and phrases have intent and purpose. If he wanted to say "lied" "cried" or "hide" he would have put them in the song. However, how do you suppose any of them would have fitted into the narrative? They would have sounded completely cheesy like someone just picking words out of the air that rhyme. Maybe others would do that but Peter chose "Kentucky-Fried" because it meant something: the connotation with fast food and convenience without...
A song-writer as proficient and accomplished as Mr Gabriel does not choose words just on the basis of rhyme - the words and phrases have intent and purpose. If he wanted to say "lied" "cried" or "hide" he would have put them in the song. However, how do you suppose any of them would have fitted into the narrative? They would have sounded completely cheesy like someone just picking words out of the air that rhyme. Maybe others would do that but Peter chose "Kentucky-Fried" because it meant something: the connotation with fast food and convenience without value.
In this case, the lyric doesn't work for you but for me and (I'm sure) many others it is the perfect fit.
Perhaps if you want nice sounding rhymes you will have to choose a different artist to listen to.
(I shudder to think what you would make of Family and the Fishing Net! Hahaha!)
Dear Mr. Gabriel:
Please go back in time and hit your past self upside the head with a rhyming dictionary. "Kentucky Fried" should never be used as a rhyme outside of godawful American Country-and-Western songs. There's better poetic rhymes, like "lied" or "cried" or "hide". Maybe even "wide." But not "Kentucky Fried." That just ruins it.
--Much love, Professor Know-It-All
Dear Professor,
Dear Professor,
A song-writer as proficient and accomplished as Mr Gabriel does not choose words just on the basis of rhyme - the words and phrases have intent and purpose. If he wanted to say "lied" "cried" or "hide" he would have put them in the song. However, how do you suppose any of them would have fitted into the narrative? They would have sounded completely cheesy like someone just picking words out of the air that rhyme. Maybe others would do that but Peter chose "Kentucky-Fried" because it meant something: the connotation with fast food and convenience without...
A song-writer as proficient and accomplished as Mr Gabriel does not choose words just on the basis of rhyme - the words and phrases have intent and purpose. If he wanted to say "lied" "cried" or "hide" he would have put them in the song. However, how do you suppose any of them would have fitted into the narrative? They would have sounded completely cheesy like someone just picking words out of the air that rhyme. Maybe others would do that but Peter chose "Kentucky-Fried" because it meant something: the connotation with fast food and convenience without value.
In this case, the lyric doesn't work for you but for me and (I'm sure) many others it is the perfect fit.
Perhaps if you want nice sounding rhymes you will have to choose a different artist to listen to.
(I shudder to think what you would make of Family and the Fishing Net! Hahaha!)
-- Mr UKnoDiddly
@ProfessorKnowItAll Sorry. That rhyme makes the song a brilliant searing indictment of the complete and total failure of the American Dream.
@ProfessorKnowItAll Sorry. That rhyme makes the song a brilliant searing indictment of the complete and total failure of the American Dream.