Sweet Home Alabama really grinds my gears. Neil Young sings about systemic racism in the south and Skynard retorts 'yea some people here are racist ♪ but not all of us are ♪ frig off Neil Young♪ whoa now look at the sky'.
Horse shit lyrics, sick composition.
But "Sweet Caroline" is problematic in a different way. From Wikipedia - "Diamond has provided different explanations for the song's origins. In a 2007 interview, he stated the inspiration for the song was John F. Kennedy's daughter, Caroline, who was 11 years old at the time it was released. Diamond sang the song for her at her 50th birthday celebration in 2007. On December 21, 2011, in an interview on CBS's The Early Show, Diamond said that a magazine cover photo of Caroline as a young child on a horse with her parents created an image in his mind, and the rest of the song came together about five years after seeing the picture. However, in 2014, Diamond said the song was about his then-wife Marcia, but he needed a three-syllable name to fit the melody."
He wrote lyrics about touching each other a few years after seeing her in a photo as a young child?
Lol, when I describe the song to people what I say is almost verbatim: "it sounds like they stumbled upon one really solid guitar riff and were like, fuck it, play that shit for the next 4 minutes! Umm is that gonna be enough for a song? Who gives a shit!"
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Gaspar@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 98 pts · 2y
DREAMS ARE MADE OF THIS, WHO AM I TO DISAGREE
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
*these
Gaspar@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 32 pts · 2y
I had originally written that, but I went and looked it up and it actually is "this". ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 2y
Y'know when you're right you're right. The lyrics do indeed say "this"
However I'm going to lump it in with Blinded by the Light because it's definitely sang "these" just like Manfred sang "douche" instead of deuce.
Edit: After relistening to the song she actually does say "this" she simply expresses the /ee/ version of the i in "this" so it sounds like "theeeeis"
To most people not paying attention it would sound like "these" but upon closer inspection she is actually saying "this"
samus12345@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
Who am I to disagris?
CluelessDude@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 2y
Nuts, Gottem
Anticorp@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Incorrect my good sir or madam
Shieldtoad@sh.itjust.works · 93 pts · 2y
FunderPants@lemmy.ca · 45 pts · 2y
Caroline, every time. Easy choice.
Sweet Home Alabama really grinds my gears. Neil Young sings about systemic racism in the south and Skynard retorts 'yea some people here are racist ♪ but not all of us are ♪ frig off Neil Young♪ whoa now look at the sky'. Horse shit lyrics, sick composition.
jsomae@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 2y
Jesus Christ, my eyes are now open.
I unironically had no idea.
harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 2y
But "Sweet Caroline" is problematic in a different way. From Wikipedia - "Diamond has provided different explanations for the song's origins. In a 2007 interview, he stated the inspiration for the song was John F. Kennedy's daughter, Caroline, who was 11 years old at the time it was released. Diamond sang the song for her at her 50th birthday celebration in 2007. On December 21, 2011, in an interview on CBS's The Early Show, Diamond said that a magazine cover photo of Caroline as a young child on a horse with her parents created an image in his mind, and the rest of the song came together about five years after seeing the picture. However, in 2014, Diamond said the song was about his then-wife Marcia, but he needed a three-syllable name to fit the melody."
He wrote lyrics about touching each other a few years after seeing her in a photo as a young child?
FunderPants@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 2y
Gross, classic rock /pop are full of gross stories like that.
JayDee@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 2y
I'm the opposite. Any time I hear the 'Caroline' I get aliitle frustrated.
'Home Alabama' forever and always.
samus12345@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 2y
Child o' mine
OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
Where do we go, where do we go now?
Anticorp@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, **WHERE DO WE GO NOW?
harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 20 pts · 2y
As a white person, I choose "sweet release of death."
meekah@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
DUN DUN DUNNN
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 17 pts · 2y
Why are white people black?
samus12345@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Why is someone who's half white and half black just considered black?
LemmynySnicket@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Ha you ever seem the movie domino? Woman goes on springer and shows a diagram of all the new races she wants coined like blasian, whack, etc etc.
Anticorp@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
My friend is black and his wife is Asian, and they call their kids blasian.
Thcdenton@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
kibiz0r@midwest.social · 16 pts · 2y
Cherry pie
Oka@lemmy.ml · 15 pts · 2y
Emotions
obrenden@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
You talk about things that nobody cares
db2@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 2y
Only if you adopt a teenager to take on the road to get her pregnant. Tyler is a piece of shit.
Signtist@lemm.ee · 12 pts · 2y
Sweet Home Carolina! No, wait...
Baahb@feddit.nl · 10 pts · 2y
Emotion
stardustsystem@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y
🎶Good times never skies so blue🎵
a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 2y
DmMacniel@feddit.de · 2 pts · 2y
Sweet sweet
H1jAcK@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 2y
Sweet, what's mine say?
maggio@discuss.tchncs.de · 7 pts · 2y
Duuuuuuuude, what does mine say?
spicytuna62@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
And theeeeeeeen?
No_Change_Just_Money@feddit.de · 6 pts · 2y
Gwendoline, anybody?
harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 2y
Ich war geknebelt. Ich konnte nicht mal schreien. Oh, Sweet Sweet Gwendoline!
pingveno@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 2y
How'd you do? I
See you met my
Faithful handyman
He's just a little brought down because
When you knocked
He thought you were the
candy man.
Allonzee@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
So good! So good! So good!
Vespair@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 2y
Caroline, every time.
Sweet Home Alabama is just awful
Thcdenton@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
I hate it too, but in it's defense I think it's mostly just over played. That riff is kinda sick.
Vespair@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 2y
Lol, when I describe the song to people what I say is almost verbatim: "it sounds like they stumbled upon one really solid guitar riff and were like, fuck it, play that shit for the next 4 minutes! Umm is that gonna be enough for a song? Who gives a shit!"
So yeah, the riff is pretty good
Tikiporch@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
No black people in Alabama or Boston apparently.
db2@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
samus12345@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
He's as white as he is black.
db2@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
I usually get grief for pointing that out, fyi. For whatever reason people of any shade don't like to hear that.
sirico@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 2y
I'll be comin home to ba da da!
ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y
Sweet Alabama home doesn't sound right, so it's gotta be sweet CAROLINE ^dah dah dah
Etterra@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
That's not a hard choice. Have you ever been to Alabama? Nobody wants to be there, not even the natives. Well, at least the ones that aren't inbred.
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
I actually have driven through. I saw a sign for an apparent mud festival.
kautau@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Oh no! Whichever way I go, 🎵 country roads, take me home 🎵
listless@lemmy.cringecollective.io · 2 pts · 2y
Put a smile on your face Ten miles wide Looks so good Bring a tear to your eye Sweet cherry pie
Kowowow@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 2y
What about sweet home alabama or werewolves of london
harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 2y
Warren Zebon FTW!
groats_survivor@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 2y
Zevon? Or did I get whooshed?
Crowfiend@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 2y
Probably wooshed since B and V are next to each other on most keyboards, making it a super easy typo.
SonicDeathTaco@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y
Or you could choose the road less traveled.
Anticorp@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Well, they certainly look like they're having fun.
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 0 pts · 2y
All* white people love radio Caroline?