#random, part 1

Hi there! (word to peter gabriel) What’s up? How’s yer ’12? Mine is so much better than my ’11. That year kicked my ass.

So here’s some randomness…

#I love music. Always have, always will. Recently, I have been actually paying more attention to the subject matter and words of the songs I used to rock out to. What can I say? I was a yewt. I got lost in the music – it made me high, word to Lost Boyz.

So here are the songs I was the most shocked to learn about (I know – go get a late pass…):

Relax by Frankie Goes To Hollywood – When I was a Junior in High School, I thought FGTH was the most important band on the planet. They dressed well, the beat to Relax was insane, and they were all so cool, even dude with the Freddie Mercury moustache. And I used to sing Relax at the top of my lungs. Then I got (way) older and realized what the lyrics were about. So to recant my statements from the mid 80s, DO NOT REST INSIDE ME, DO NOT HIT ME WITH THOSE LASER BEAMS, AND PLEASE DON’T COME. I do not play for your team. Thank you ever so much, the young man.

Raspberry Beret by Prince – someone told me a long time ago that this was about his first time having sex, and I didn’t see/believe it. Wow, naive me. Wait - so, when it was warm, this chick was running around in a hat and nothing else? Interesting.

Like A Prayer by Madonna – Never put the “I’m down on my knees/I wanna take you there” line together with anything but the fact that she was praying. Again, naïve me. Now I get why there was so much controversy about the video and the religious imagery. And the fact that leon is in the video just makes it that much more of an issue. I don’t like leon. He is 2 dimensional. He’s an African-American version of Keanu reeves (before he became neo. Neo=cool). #random

#This next bit of randomness was triggered by my research about the like a prayer song. I HATE the fact that people can comment on websites. Not everyone needs a voice. Not everyone needs fingers either. Stop typing.  I hate people sometimes. Here’s what I found in comments on one website about like a prayer:

“Oh this song is about the fact that you realize you are a whore one day and that your name is from the blessed virgin Mary and you have blasphemed throughout your crappy career. then you really realize you are screwed because you make a music video where there are burning crosses all over and you are making out with a priest. Then to make matters worse you name your only daughter after a beautiful site of an apparition of Mary, Lourdes, just to rub in the fact that you are a horrible human being. yep that's what it's about.”

“like a prayer listed in reverse or backwards she is referring to the devil calling out to satan. I bet you never knew that she is a freemason.”

“"Life is a mystery" part when played backwards says "Devil I worship you".

Ahem. Die. Twice. I don’t know you, yet I despise you, and that rusted out gremlin on blocks in your front yard with the family of badgers in the trunk. Put down the Pabst Blue Ribbon and turn off that crystal meth fire in your living room. Go away.

more to come.

-tym