Spyke
Gasparreply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

I had originally written that, but I went and looked it up and it actually is "this". ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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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"

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lemmy.ca

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.

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Now Watergate does not bother me, uh-uh

Jesus Christ, my eyes are now open.

Where the skies are so blue (and the governor's true)

I unironically had no idea.

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lemmy.dbzer0.com

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?

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I'm the opposite. Any time I hear the 'Caroline' I get aliitle frustrated.

'Home Alabama' forever and always.

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samus12345reply
lemmy.world

Why is someone who's half white and half black just considered black?

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lemmy.world

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.

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My friend is black and his wife is Asian, and they call their kids blasian.

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Only if you adopt a teenager to take on the road to get her pregnant. Tyler is a piece of shit.

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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.

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I usually get grief for pointing that out, fyi. For whatever reason people of any shade don't like to hear that.

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lemm.ee

Caroline, every time.

Sweet Home Alabama is just awful

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THCDentonreply
lemmy.world

I hate it too, but in it's defense I think it's mostly just over played. That riff is kinda sick.

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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

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lemmy.world

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.

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Oh no! Whichever way I go, 🎵 country roads, take me home 🎵

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lemmy.ca

What about sweet home alabama or werewolves of london

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Probably wooshed since B and V are next to each other on most keyboards, making it a super easy typo.

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