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There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
At this point I should confess to being a big Cars fan back in their day. I even have purchased a CD or two of theirs in the last few years.
No confession required - the Cars were an excellent, excellent band. Highly underrated in recent years, mostly because of that damn fly video being so ubiqitous for a couple of years.
I loved the Cars so much omg.
I have nothing really else to say.
Let's talk about this: I have to talk soon on the radio about this theory I have that Eminem and Morrissey are working the same territory. Any thoughts? My main idea is about self-hatred/self-glorification and irony vs. sarcasm.
Absolutely. Morrissey, long ago, pointed out that what made him special was that "I was ill and I said I was ill". Same applies to eminem. They both bear their psychic wounds as badges of pride.
They're both nostalgic for a time and place they hated, locked constantly in emotional adolescence, picking the same old scabs over and over again. They both have this armour of vicious scathing wit that makes them admirable and unlovable in equal parts, and they know it, and they can't help it, and they sort of like it.
But they react to those stimuli in very different ways. Morrissey is introspective, while Eminem lashes out at others. Suicidal vs. homicidal, if you will.
No confession required - the Cars were an excellent, excellent band. Highly underrated in recent years, mostly because of that damn fly video being so ubiqitous for a couple of years.
Hmmm... I guess I'm just used to all my alternative music-loving friends making fun of my Cars love....
Hmmm... I guess I'm just used to all my alternative music-loving friends making fun of my Cars love....
I think some of that reaction to the Cars comes from them riffing on girls and cars when so much of music around them was political (Clash, Boomtown Rats, Elvis Costello to pick out a few), but they were huge, and I thought they were great.
They're both nostalgic for a time and place they hated, locked constantly in emotional adolescence, picking the same old scabs over and over again.
That, and also the way they write about them is similar -- they're both storytellers, lyrically speaking, and both very funny. Eminem's humor is much less subtle and dry; I'm tempted to make that a Brit-vs-American thing, or maybe a generational thing, but I'm not sure if either would be accurate.
But they react to those stimuli in very different ways. Morrissey is introspective, while Eminem lashes out at others. Suicidal vs. homicidal, if you will.
Morrissey's lyrics have more than a few lashings of violence. "Sweetness, I was only joking when I said / that by rights you should be bludgeoned in the head..."
Hell, Eminem practically wrote that song to his wife.
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