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13 Nov 2015, 4:49 pm

ASPartOfMe wrote:
GodzillaWoman wrote:
My brother played Don McLean's "American Pie" over and over again and I still don't get that one. Something to do with JFK maybe? Nixon? uhhh


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/04/08/gloomy-don-mclean-reveals-meaning-of-american-pie-and-sells-lyrics-for-1-2-million/

There is a link to another, more exact parsing, of the lyrics in our thread about cryptic song lyrics in the Music/Art/Writing subforum.

But its the same general idea. Many of the surreal characters in the McLean song are references to rock stars of the Fifties and Sixties.



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13 Nov 2015, 4:50 pm

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I was listening to "Roam" by the B-52's the other day and the meaning suddenly slapped me right across the face. How did I miss the obvious sexual innuendo all these years?


What??? There is??


Weird, I never noticed that before...looked it up and now that I know what it's really about...yuck! :eew: Don't think I will be singing along to that one anymore.