Sky nerd wrote:
Star wrote:
Sweet Home Alabama
Catchy tune. Great guitar riff.
But...
And support governor Wallace who was an obvious racist.
I think you need to listen to it again.
Agreed, it sounds like he got the song all wrong.
Sky nerd wrote:
Star wrote:
Sweet Home Alabama
Catchy tune. Great guitar riff.
But...
And support governor Wallace who was an obvious racist.
I think you need to listen to it again.
Agreed, it sounds like he got the song all wrong.
secret asian man
Sweet Home Alabama totally defends Nixon and Wallace.
And it mentions Neil Young in three different lines.
What did I get wrong?
Star wrote:
Sweet Home Alabama totally defends Nixon and Wallace.
And it mentions Neil Young in three different lines.
What did I get wrong?
I always interpret there response in the sense that during time of slavery only like 10% of people actually owned slaves in the south. So to disrespect and generalize all southerns is totally disrespectful.
for real wrote:
Sky nerd wrote:
I think you need to listen to it again.
Agreed, it sounds like he got the song all wrong.
From the song:
"In Birmingham they love the Gov'nor, boo-hoo-hoo
Now we all did what we could do
Now Watergate does not bother me
Does your conscience bother you, tell the truth
....
Sweet home Alabama, oh sweet home
Where the skies are so blue and the governor's true..."
Quote from George Wallace, then Governor of Alabama, 1963 Inaugural Address:
"In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever."
George Wallace was also known for attempting to stop four black students from enrolling in four separate elementary schools in Huntsville, for which the Federal courts shortly thereafter allowed the forced integration of.
It's ok, governor Wallace was a Democrat.
Whip It
Hot for Teacher
Van Halen is so deep!
"In Birmingham the love the governor" (but we don't)
"Boo hoo hoo" (he sucks)
"We all did what we could do" (hey, don't blame us, we didn't vote for him)
Sky nerd wrote:
"In Birmingham the love the governor" (but we don't)
"Boo hoo hoo" (he sucks)
"We all did what we could do" (hey, don't blame us, we didn't vote for him)
According to Wikipedia:
Music historians point out that the choice[not in citation given] of Birmingham in connection with the governor (rather than the capital Montgomery) is significant[not in citation given] for the controversy as "In 1963, the city was the site of massive civil rights activism, as thousands of demonstrators led by Martin Luther King, Jr. sought to desegregate downtown businesses... [and] was the scene of some of the most violent moments of the Civil Rights Movement. Segregationist police chief Bull Connor unleashed attack dogs and high-pressure water cannons against peaceful marchers, including women and children; just weeks later, Ku Klux Klansmen bombed a black church, killing four little girls."[5]
In 1975, Van Zant said: "The lyrics about the governor of Alabama were misunderstood. The general public didn't notice the words 'Boo! Boo! Boo!' after that particular line, and the media picked up only on the reference to the people loving the governor."[6] "The line 'We all did what we could do' is sort of ambiguous," Al Kooper notes. "'We tried to get Wallace out of there' is how I always thought of it."[6] Towards the end of the song, Van Zant adds "where the governor's true" to the chorus's "where the skies are so blue," a line rendered ironic by the previous booing of the governor. Journalist Al Swenson argues that the song is more complex than it is sometimes given credit for, suggesting that it only looks like an endorsement of Wallace.[6] "Wallace and I have very little in common," Van Zant himself said, "I don't like what he says about colored people."[
Sky nerd wrote:
"In Birmingham the love the governor" (but we don't)
"Boo hoo hoo" (he sucks)
"We all did what we could do" (hey, don't blame us, we didn't vote for him)
¨Well I heard Mister Young sing about her
Well I heard ole Neil put her down
Well, I hope Neil Young will remember
A southern man don't need him around anyhow.¨
Yeah, this song is in response to Young calling out the racist ways of Alabama. (Listen to ¨Alabama¨ by Young. And, listen to ¨Southern Man¨ by Young too.)
Anyway you slice it, this cheesy band from Florida (Yes, Florida.) is terrible. Oh, and racist douches to boot.
But, I know I won´t change your minds. Sigh.
"And for what it's worth, Young came to regret the song that started it all. "'Alabama' richly deserved the shot Lynyrd Skynyrd gave me with their great record," he wrote in his memoir, Waging Heavy Peace, in 2012. "I don't like my words when I listen to it today. They are accusatory and condescending, not fully thought out, too easy to misconstrue.""
What? No mention of this one?
Baby it's cold outside.
Ok, that's only if you're a moran and misinterpret the lyrics.
SJW mob sucks wrote:
What? No mention of this one?
Baby it's cold outside.
Ok, that's only if you're a moran and misinterpret the lyrics.
If it were so bad, why would Zooey Deschannel cover it?
Anyone else glad Captain Kirk and others standing up to this crap?
Wanna be starting something. Michael Jackson talks like a complete prick. I realised that the lyrics say "your a vegetable, they hate you". Horrible thing to say. If you can't feed a baby don't have a baby. He was nasty as a child and obviously didn't appreciate his parents.
The wheels on the bus go round and round.
I didn’t write my posts to defend Neil Young.
My point is that I first thought of the song Sweet Home Alabama as a fun song about liking Alabama.
But once I learned that it was a politically charged song that took something away from it.
Especially them clearly defending Watergate.
Kinda ruined the song for me.
Perfectly in line with the subject of the thread.
SJW mob sucks wrote:
What? No mention of this one?
Baby it's cold outside.
Ok, that's only if you're a moran and misinterpret the lyrics.
It was mentioned on the first page.
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