>sure the lyrics are heavy handed, but it's not like he wrote >it for the pop charts. *shrugs* > >i also don't mind listening to I Just Called and Don't Drive >Drunk every now & then. *shrugs* > >(aka #StevieStan) >
Ashley Ayers Member since Dec 12th 2009 12331 posts
Wed Oct-31-12 02:21 PM
30. "I hear you, fam... but ionno wassup with the off-keyness during the" In response to Reply # 3 Wed Oct-31-12 02:23 PM by Ashley Ayers
verses. And the way he was singing the verses sounded like he was *trying* to sound wounded. Ionno b. Shit was weird. I have heard worse songs though. The melody picked up a bit during the bridge and chorus. This diminishes no jot or tittle from Stevie's legacy, but damn.
Ashley Ayers Member since Dec 12th 2009 12331 posts
Wed Oct-31-12 02:33 PM
32. "To be fair, I've always been iffy about his more "political" songs" In response to Reply # 0
outside of You Haven't Done Nothin'. I'm not even big on Happy Birthday, even though it's an anthem. Stevie's "social ills" songs have always sounded a bit heavy-handed and corny, to me. I'm not one to call people "preachy" for making songs that are actually *about* something, but Stevie comes across that way, for me personally, when he goes there. Seems like he's at his best when singing about.... well just about anything except politics.
maybe I'm trippin', because I like all those songs lol. Only one I consider "political" though is Big Brother. The rest do fall under "social ills" joints, so probably chose the wrong phrase there.
This song simply reminds me of Happy Birthday, where he's pointedly making a song about specific figure. I skip Happy Birthday every single time I play Hotter Than July.
Funny thing about Misinterpreted People is that I find it heavy handed as hell, yet it's one of my favorite songs ever.
42. "this shit and prince vikings fight song need to be in a time capsule" In response to Reply # 0 Sat Nov-17-12 03:05 PM by Basaglia
because thousands and thousands and thousands of years from now when humanity has evolved to the attain near-perfect spiritual enlightenment and we're done with war and the manufacturing of trivialities to keep us separate and at odds, our descendents are going to need reminders of who we were and just how fuckin wack even THE BEST and most BRILLIANT among us could be...and if they're not careful, the entire species be that wack again.
now, i gotta go jerkoff to forget i ever heard that.
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