| U2 – New Year's Day Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I'd say more but wook..i.e. knocked it out of the park. | |
| Cascada – Everytime We Touch Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Wow...more meaningless, shallow clubbing slut music. | |
| Shakira – Hips Don't Lie Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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First off, my hips are tremendous liars, don't trust them. Second, how does one move like they come from Columbia as opposed to Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, etc...This lyric bugs me. Third, nice use of retro paranoia by Treble Clef Jean. The only time the CIA would be concerned about an interracial relationship nowadays would be if Paris Hilton finally gets around to banging Bin Laden...and judging by her numbers, there aren't too many guys left that she hasn't slept with. If there's nothing else good playing, I'll listen to this song but Ojos Asi is a much better Shakira song. |
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| Rihanna – SOS Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Well whaddaya know...Another R&B "artist" ripping off a great 80's hit. Its almost as pathetic as Puffy's ripoff of Every Breath You Take or Mya ripping off Islands in the Stream. There is a distinct difference between doing a cover of a song, which is respectable and sampling which is really nothing more than backdoor plagiarism. If the credits read Rihanna and Soft Cell, I might feel differently but its funny how this never happens. | |
| John Mayer – 83 Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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"you can paint that house a rainbow of colors rip out the floorboards and replace the the shutters but that's my plastic in the dirt" This strong strikes me for a number of reasons: I was 5 in 1983 so the references hit home...I remember watching the Wrapped Around Your Finger video on MTV (when they still played music). The last bit gets me because yes, someday my boyhood home will be sold but no matter how it changes, my GI Joes are still buried in various places around it. I think on a deeper level, it says that no matter what changes in our lives, there are some things about us, call them memories or what have you that will never change. |
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| John Mayer – Bigger Than My Body Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I like this song but an observation is called for: It seems to me to be the only Top 40 song he released without the pre-conceived notion that it would get him laid e.g. Daughters, Your Body is a Wonderland etc. | |
| U2 – New Year's Day Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Sigh...This song isn't about something abstract or inner-turmoil or spiritualism or any of that garbage. Its about the Eastern Front in WWII written from the perspective of a Soviet Red Army soldier writing to a loved one. For those of you who received the public school version of History where we were force fed the Civil Rights Movement at the cost of learning about WWI and WWII, allow me to translate... "All is quiet on New Year's day A world in white gets underway" This refers to the fact that the Russian Winter e.g. "A world in white" is synonymous with the Eastern Front. "Under a blood red sky A crowd has gathered, black and white" The first line is a reference to the fact that this part of the war was primarily fought in the USSR...a communist country under Joseph Stalin. The second line refers to the fact that in 1941, when the Germans invaded the Soviet Union, they were unprepared for winter fighting and wore primarily grey and black uniforms whereas the Soviets who were fighting on their home turf wore white snow cammouflage. "Arms entwined, the chosen few The newspapers says, says Say it's true, it's true And we can break through Though torn in two We can be one" This is a reference to Soviet propaganda. Things looked bleak for the Soviets at the end of 1941 as the country was split into two fronts in the north and south. In the north, the German Wehrmacht was at the gates of Moscow and Leningrad was cut off and under seige. In the south, the Axis were driving toward Stalingrad. Despite this, the newspapers, actually just one "Pravda" kept proclaiming that the Red Army was resisting (which they were) and that the great push to drive the Germans back was coming. But, as the song and the soldier laments, "nothing changes on New Year's Day." BTW...The little boy on the album cover for War is from a Soviet Propaganda film about a Russian boy who becomes a Partisan (guerilla) fighter against the Germans. |
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| Geto Boys – Damn It Feels Good to Be a Gangsta Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Although I'm a Conservative I can overlook the jab as simple ghetto ignorance because of this song's connection to Office Space. I am tempted to put my feet up whenever I hear it. | |
| Shakira – Ojos Asi Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Another excellent song to run to (Thunder Mix)...I never get sick of it. | |
| Republica – Ready To Go Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This song gets me so amped...AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH...Its been on every workout soundtrack I've ever made since 1998. It just makes me want to go for a run. | |
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