More than one that became popular? No, much to his dismay. More than one at all? Holy crap yes, I think his discography contains no less than 4 albums.
yeah but they're clearly the top selling points. when you describe a place you'd go for the important details. not like...
"we should go to new york city; they have traffic signs and some buildings are gray"
According to Slash it was originally "where the girls are fat, and they got big titties" but they knew it was never going to be on the release version.
Honestly probably the most historical take on what makes a place paradise. Slash would be right at home in the early days of man, making fertility idols.
The lyrics of the rest of the song aren't that great
Strapped in the chair of the city's gas chamber
Why I'm here, I can't quite remember
The Surgeon General says it's hazardous to breathe
I'd have another cigarette
But I can't see, tell me who you're gonna believe
Take me down to the Paradise City
Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty
So either the chorus is pure sarcasm, or his day to day to life is so unbearable that he genuinely wishes to go back to a time/place where the grass is green, and a time when he was still attracted to women
Lots of philosophers have independently come up with the idea that you can't get happiness by consuming more and more. Basically none have pushed the opposite (Ayn Rand is not a philosopher).
It literally means "encircling boundary wall". It then started to mean "something encircled by a wall", which often happened to be gardens, and then it started to mean "garden".
I guess it's more that the word paradise (paridayjah) could be used to describe anything encircled by a wall, whether it's a prison or a garden. I think at that time (when some form of proto-iranic was spoken) a paradise (as in heaven) would be something like hácmā.
You, the person I’m talking to are so vain to think I’m talking to you.
Believing something like that without evidence, even if it's true, is crazy. That's what that line is about. It doesn't matter that the song actually is about them. The fact that they can believe it among all the other possibilities is why they're vain.
That's still a bit silly, given that the rest of the lyrics imply that they have history together. If I assumed that Alanis Morissette was singing about me, that would be absurdly vain, but Alanis Morissette's ex assuming that is much more reasonable.
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usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca · 103 pts · 304d
Time to get pedantic: He says "where" not "because". These are just examples of things in the paradise city, not the criteria.
It's people thinking liking big butts somehow makes you unable to lie all over again.
BassTurd@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 304d
Wait, are you telling me the lyrics aren't, "I like big butts therefore I cannot tell a lie"? I've been singing it wrong for years.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 304d
It was actually a deep discussion of sociopolitical topics of the time, if you listen to the whole album.
BassTurd@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 304d
Your telling me that Sir Mix a lot has more than one song? Doubt.
glandrid@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 304d
Big if true
zerofk@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 303d
Big butts if true.
Asidonhopo@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 302d
I seem to remember some sort of Humpty Dance
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 304d
More than one that became popular? No, much to his dismay. More than one at all? Holy crap yes, I think his discography contains no less than 4 albums.
pyre@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 303d
yeah but they're clearly the top selling points. when you describe a place you'd go for the important details. not like... "we should go to new york city; they have traffic signs and some buildings are gray"
hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de · 0 pts · 303d
Yep, that bluesky post gets an F on text interpretation.
keisatsu@infosec.pub · 80 pts · 304d
The lyrics were intended to be "where the grass is free and the girls are easy but they were told to change it if I remember correctly :)
BootLoop@sh.itjust.works · 54 pts · 304d
According to Slash it was originally "where the girls are fat, and they got big titties" but they knew it was never going to be on the release version.
VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 32 pts · 304d
Honestly probably the most historical take on what makes a place paradise. Slash would be right at home in the early days of man, making fertility idols.
MeatPilot@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 304d
Hubba hubba
HowAbt2day@futurology.today · 13 pts · 304d
Needed that NSFW flair, bud. Now I’m over here sporting a savage Woodrow.
Icytrees@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 304d
Thanks for the new band name. A Savage Woodrow.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 304d
Woodrow Wilson was pretty fucking savage......
MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 304d
Where are the arms?
MeatPilot@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 304d
I'm no expert but I think those faint lines used to be arms/hands? Or they just snapped off?
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 304d
Don't need arms to make babies...
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 304d
Well he makes a compelling description of paradise
HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca · 29 pts · 304d
Well that makes a shitload more sense
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 304d
That has way too many syllables.
FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 304d
brotundspiele@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 304d
And I always thought it was "where the grass is weed and the girls are female".
yakko@feddit.uk · 37 pts · 304d
Realistic and achievable. The secret to paradise is merely not to put it out of reach. Pretty deep message when you unpack it a little bit
tetris11@lemmy.ml · 33 pts · 304d
The lyrics of the rest of the song aren't that great
So either the chorus is pure sarcasm, or his day to day to life is so unbearable that he genuinely wishes to go back to a time/place where the grass is green, and a time when he was still attracted to women
sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 304d
The chorus is a vision of an ideal world while the verse is a picture of harsh reality. It points out the fallacy of the American dream.
Rachelhazideas@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 304d
'Grass normal color' might eventually be a luxury with global warming and ecological collapse.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 304d
The grass is part of the problem
Rachelhazideas@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 303d
Lawns? Yes. Grass? No.
Native grasses are good for the ecosystem as long as it is not a monoculture.
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 25 pts · 304d
I live in California where the normal color for grass is a pale brown.
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 304d
I live in the South, where the grass is extremely green and human rights are almost nonexistent
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 304d
I come from the Midwest where the color of grass and presence of human rights are wildly inconsistent
Rooster326@programming.dev · 2 pts · 304d
And the "grass" they reefer to in the song, might just get you prison time.
MarieMarion@literature.cafe · 3 pts · 304d
I see what you did. Nice.
riot@fedia.io · 8 pts · 304d
and the leaves? and the sky is gray?
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 10 pts · 303d
The song was originally supposed to go
but it didnt really flow well.
The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world · 9 pts · 304d
Maybe the message is that if you're easy to please, life is amazing.
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 304d
Lots of philosophers have independently come up with the idea that you can't get happiness by consuming more and more. Basically none have pushed the opposite (Ayn Rand is not a philosopher).
Rooster326@programming.dev · 3 pts · 304d
You know what they say.
Nikls94@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 304d
"Paradise" comes from Persian and means "beautiful garden"
balsoft@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 304d
It literally means "encircling boundary wall". It then started to mean "something encircled by a wall", which often happened to be gardens, and then it started to mean "garden".
Nikls94@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 303d
Sooo back in the days a prison and a paradise would use the same word to describe it
balsoft@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 303d
I guess it's more that the word paradise (paridayjah) could be used to describe anything encircled by a wall, whether it's a prison or a garden. I think at that time (when some form of proto-iranic was spoken) a paradise (as in heaven) would be something like hácmā.
fodor@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 304d
"Appetite for Destruction" is the album. You should also (accurately) assume that the singer is either high or drunk or both.
psmgx@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 304d
There are a lot of ugly women and ugly lawns out there.
saltesc@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 304d
So, mostly anywhere in the Southern Hemisphere.
credo@lemmy.world · -10 pts · 304d
This is why I almost always ignore sing lyrics. I almost always walk away disappointed, and feel down any time I hear the song afterward.
I bet you think I wrote this for you to read. You’re so vain. You, the person I’m talking to are so vain to think I’m talking to you.
TTFN
TheRealKuni@piefed.social · 6 pts · 304d
I’m so vain I probably thought this post was about me.
petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 304d
Believing something like that without evidence, even if it's true, is crazy. That's what that line is about. It doesn't matter that the song actually is about them. The fact that they can believe it among all the other possibilities is why they're vain.
kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 304d
That's still a bit silly, given that the rest of the lyrics imply that they have history together. If I assumed that Alanis Morissette was singing about me, that would be absurdly vain, but Alanis Morissette's ex assuming that is much more reasonable.
petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 304d
Someone I had a history with once posted something long on Facebook that I thought was about me. It wasn't remotely.