Posted on 07/20/2022 9:31:11 AM PDT by OneVike
Any press is good press (so long as they spell your name right). Regardless whether the story is true, it boost the sales of his music for a spell.
All the sweet blue icing flowing down.
I don’t think that I can take it
Cause it took so long to bake it
Inspirational…yuck
It used to be relevant. Now it’s a song djs play when they need a bathroom break.
But I have to admit the cover he did with Home Free was really good.
lol!
A gripping account of a childhood memory. Thanks for sharing. Loss is particularly hard at that age because most of us don’t really ‘know/understand’ anything about loss in life that early.
Yeah but it was sung by Albus Dumbledore
What does it all mean? Just what a song about the day the music died seems like it might be about: the end of the American Dream. “Basically in ‘American Pie,’ things are heading in the wrong direction,” he [Mclean] told Christie’s, as the Newcastle Herald reported. “It is becoming less idyllic. I don’t know whether you consider that wrong or right but it is a morality song in a sense.”
True, there are plenty of insipid and insidious lyrics that are attached to beautiful melodies. But that’s the nature of lyrical music. You’re dealing with two separate works of art that are fused together. Ideally they complement each other, but not always, and less scrupulous people can use a good song as cover for not so good lyrics. But I can still like a song and reject its message, or like its message even if I don’t like the music.
Most of that, I knew. There were a couple references in it that I missed or made the wrong association.
Star Trek - American Pie - Uhura - Don McLean
https://youtu.be/s33W6g1lqMs
Hey! Leave MacArthur Park alone! :-)
I know, seems like everyone either loves it or hates it.
Thanks for your reply.
I’m thinking it through. One can take a bullet and still survive. Caffeine, OK, nicotine, only a little, cocaine, better not.
That’s one facet. Another one is that a barrage of fused art has undercut our culture, pronounced it dead, and we are left confused about an identity that is meant to be erased. Tragic loss in the making.
I could add one part. My sister who tried to get me up to go check out the accident with her boyfriend, was a good friend of Karan also. They were in the same home room and Sunday was my sisters birthday. They were going to get tother and celebrate it.
When Sonya got to the accident, Jim was already on his way to the hospital, and Karen’s body was being transported also, so she was clueless who was in the accident.
The driver was in the police car, and the vehicle was parked in someones front yard.
When I got home sonar had already heard about Karen from the news on the radio, so I didn’t have to be the one to tell her.
She read another account I wrote once, and told me that I should write a book since I remember so much and am able to write so well. Hmm, never did, and doubt I will.
Thanks for posting the take on McLean’s song. I love the song and my aunt bought me the album for my 14th birthday. I don’t get all the negative nancies complaining about the song. Perhaps they would prefer an article on a song by a shrieking, out of tune group that stole many of their lyrics? Let’s see...who would that 1970s group be?
What’s funny? There’s nothing funny about Macbeth’s soliloquy.
Who?...........................
I understand the song’s impact in taking the thoughts of many Vietnam vets off of more serious subjects. It is a cute song, and bubble gum for the brain can be valuable therapy. I’ve always considered it an excellent drinkin’ song. The more you drink, the better it sounds...whether you’re listening to it or singing it...
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