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Post by Tennesseer on Jun 13, 2017 12:46:38 GMT -5
At the top of my list is I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas and Silent Night. Speaking of Christmas carols, I and others were told by the nuns in our 1950s Catholic grammar school it was forbidden for us to sing the Christmas carol 'Away In A Manger' because it was written by Martin Luther, of Protestant Reformation fame. That belief has since been proven false and the carol is most likely American in origin.
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Jun 13, 2017 20:44:24 GMT -5
"Hello" by Adele. That song is so obliviously narcissistic. I've always thought of it as desperate. Likewise with an overplayed song (that I believe is) called "Fight Song", even though that one is supposed to be a "hear me roar" kind of song.
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Post by empress of self-improvement on Jun 13, 2017 21:09:35 GMT -5
Flight of the Bumblebee. I LOATHE flute and piccolo and we had to play it in band one year with the piccolo as the main annoyance.
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Post by empress of self-improvement on Jun 13, 2017 21:12:20 GMT -5
Flight of the Bumblebee. I LOATHE flute and piccolo and we had to play it in band one year with the piccolo as the main annoyance. Bzzzzzzzzz bzzzzzzzzz bzzzzzzz. Brat.
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Post by cktc on Jun 13, 2017 21:36:24 GMT -5
"Hello" by Adele. That song is so obliviously narcissistic. I've always thought of it as desperate. Likewise with an overplayed song (that I believe is) called "Fight Song", even though that one is supposed to be a "hear me roar" kind of song. Well yeah, desperate too. 'I broke your heart, and you don't want to talk to me, but that's ok, I'm going to keep harassing you. I just want to wipe my conscious clean, catch-up. Anyway obviously you are over it so I guess you didn't care as much as I did. At least I tried.' LEAVE THE GUY ALONE!
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Jun 14, 2017 9:06:30 GMT -5
Royals by Lorde.
I've never liked it and it doesn't help the play the song to death on the radio. Doesn't she have any other songs they can play?
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Post by movingforward on Jun 14, 2017 9:22:02 GMT -5
Royals by Lorde. I've never liked it and it doesn't help the play the song to death on the radio. Doesn't she have any other songs they can play? YES! I absolutely hate this song but they often play it on my way to work. Even if I turn the station the song still gets stuck in my head all day.
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Jun 14, 2017 16:52:54 GMT -5
I've always thought of it as desperate. Likewise with an overplayed song (that I believe is) called "Fight Song", even though that one is supposed to be a "hear me roar" kind of song. Well yeah, desperate too. 'I broke your heart, and you don't want to talk to me, but that's ok, I'm going to keep harassing you. I just want to wipe my conscious clean, catch-up. Anyway obviously you are over it so I guess you didn't care as much as I did. At least I tried.' LEAVE THE GUY ALONE! I'm sure the intended meaning is that she's come to understand the harm she inflicted and is genuinely contrite, but the listener has to make a lot of favourable assumptions to be able to empathize. It could fit well into a Hollywood disaster movie where a power couple (man and wife) are growing more distant but have always celebrated their anniversary. In 2024, with her husband waiting expectantly in New York, the wife decides to blow off the engagement at the last minute to attend a business do in California. Then a massive disaster strikes the US northeast and nobody is allowed in or out. Communication is highly limited. The wife keeps calling her husband on their land line, desperate to know his fate, but he either isn't home or--she wonders--perhaps she's hurt him so badly this time that he doesn't want to talk to her. During the ordeal, she flashes back to all the times she called home to check on him (he works from home) but he didn't pick up (too busy writing), but also to the many times he reached out to her and she couldn't make time for him. This is the context of the song. Where she finally realizes the priorities in her life were wrong and that she's deeply sorry, but unable to do anything about it. Of course the husband harrowingly makes his way to refugee evacuation zone, driven by the prospect of seeing his wife again, and the wife moves heaven and earth to get from California to the evacuation zone, and at the end of the movie they reunite in spectacular fashion and forgive each other everything. Transformed by the experience, they live happily ever after, madly in love.
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Post by cktc on Jun 14, 2017 19:08:08 GMT -5
Well yeah, desperate too. 'I broke your heart, and you don't want to talk to me, but that's ok, I'm going to keep harassing you. I just want to wipe my conscious clean, catch-up. Anyway obviously you are over it so I guess you didn't care as much as I did. At least I tried.' LEAVE THE GUY ALONE! I'm sure the intended meaning is that she's come to understand the harm she inflicted and is genuinely contrite, but the listener has to make a lot of favourable assumptions to be able to empathize. It could fit well into a Hollywood disaster movie where a power couple (man and wife) are growing more distant but have always celebrated their anniversary. In 2024, with her husband waiting expectantly in New York, the wife decides to blow off the engagement at the last minute to attend a business do in California. Then a massive disaster strikes the US northeast and nobody is allowed in or out. Communication is highly limited. The wife keeps calling her husband on their land line, desperate to know his fate, but he either isn't home or--she wonders--perhaps she's hurt him so badly this time that he doesn't want to talk to her. During the ordeal, she flashes back to all the times she called home to check on him (he works from home) but he didn't pick up (too busy writing), but also to the many times he reached out to her and she couldn't make time for him. This is the context of the song. Where she finally realizes the priorities in her life were wrong and that she's deeply sorry, but unable to do anything about it. Of course the husband harrowingly makes his way to refugee evacuation zone, driven by the prospect of seeing his wife again, and the wife moves heaven and earth to get from California to the evacuation zone, and at the end of the movie they reunite in spectacular fashion and forgive each other everything. Transformed by the experience, they live happily ever after, madly in love. A Hollywood yarn indeed! I think she thinks she's genuinely contrite. When someone makes it clear they don't want to talk, you don't keep reaching out to show how contrite you are. Hence why it makes me stabby.
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Post by chiver78 on Jun 14, 2017 19:14:38 GMT -5
Flight of the Bumblebee. I LOATHE flute and piccolo and we had to play it in band one year with the piccolo as the main annoyance. you must love the circus march then, too. my old band director was a trombone player, he loved all that shit. one year, the circus march was our audition piece. oh, and did I mention I was the only one that could play our school's fife-style piccolo (no mouthpiece) during that time? yeah, 1st chair, 1st flute.
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Jun 14, 2017 19:52:36 GMT -5
A Hollywood yarn indeed! I think she thinks she's genuinely contrite. When someone makes it clear they don't want to talk, you don't keep reaching out to show how contrite you are. Hence why it makes me stabby. Well, there's always "Sucks to Be You" by Prozzak.
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Post by empress of self-improvement on Jun 14, 2017 20:02:33 GMT -5
Flight of the Bumblebee. I LOATHE flute and piccolo and we had to play it in band one year with the piccolo as the main annoyance. you must love the circus march then, too. my old band director was a trombone player, he loved all that shit. one year, the circus march was our audition piece. oh, and did I mention I was the only one that could play our school's fife-style piccolo (no mouthpiece) during that time? yeah, 1st chair, 1st flute. Why does this not surprise me in the least? NOT. AT. ALL. Can't recall if we played that. I know we did some trombone song and the asshole sitting behind me would keeping goosing me in the ass with his slide. Jackass. We only had 2 trombone players at any given time. I have realized I really and truly do not like "The Heartbeat Song" by Kelly Clarkson. It annoys me. I love "Breakaway" but "Heartbeat..."? No
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Post by chiver78 on Jun 14, 2017 20:04:55 GMT -5
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Jun 14, 2017 20:11:42 GMT -5
you must love the circus march then, too. my old band director was a trombone player, he loved all that shit. one year, the circus march was our audition piece. oh, and did I mention I was the only one that could play our school's fife-style piccolo (no mouthpiece) during that time? yeah, 1st chair, 1st flute. Why does this not surprise me in the least? NOT. AT. ALL. Can't recall if we played that. I know we did some trombone song and the asshole sitting behind me would keeping goosing me in the ass with his slide. Jackass. We only had 2 trombone players at any given time. I have realized I really and truly do not like "The Heartbeat Song" by Kelly Clarkson. It annoys me. I love "Breakaway" but "Heartbeat..."? No Oop oop oop all nigh lawn oop oop all nigh lawn
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