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Your mind is not thoroughly blown yet: Rupert Holmes was in a band called The Buoys (hey, they could’ve started out as The Sadbois) and they did a song called “Timothy” that is reeeeeeallly sick! About cannibalism!
whoaaaaa what the fuck. maybe I can do a post on all the songs that are actually about doing drugs. my fav is 'perfect day' by lou reed which is his love song to smack
this coincidence is actually what inspired the name for this substack! I was reading about how Rupert Holmes and F. Scott Fitzgerald inspired each other's work and I said, 'both are true'
I had a very similar discussion with book club just a couple weeks ago, when someone forced us to sit still and listen closely to the lyrics. I had NO IDEAAAAAAA
HA! I have known this, about this song, for a while...but will admit that I sang it for many years and the words did not sink in. I now refer to it as "The Philanderer Song". Thank you for the laugh out loud synopsis. This is the essay I didn't know was missing from my life! :)
As Nietzsche once said: “God is dead. We killed him when we all sang that piña colada song.” LMAO! In HS, rumor had it that My Sharona was about The Knack's dick. (Not collectively of course; the lead singer, Sadboi's cousin?)
This cracked me up. Dozens of times. I've read between the lines on this song for years and it's truly twisted. "Dull routine? Then spice things up. Go see a play. Make jambalaya. Do you even know what her love language is? Brother, get yourself together."
“What if I love to do sex on the beach but in the morning? Not interested.” Lololol. Also: “Yea I wrote this song lol” 😂😂 My high school friends had this convo in the (early) nineties (!) but your recap is hilarious 👑👌
I once stood in the rain for 45 minutes outside the Dew Drop Inn, a bar in the west village, feeding coins into the payphone, hoping he’d pick up and explain why he was so late for our date. A lady walked by and muttered, “Honey he’s not worth it.”
I drove my ass across the great state of NY every other weekend FOR A YEAR for some guy who I didn't remember meeting because I was wasted and who told me he was never going to get married. I'm talking about 500 miles round trip. Including during the WINTER.
And then I moved in with him and then married him.
Incidentally we met 20 years ago this month. Which I don't remember.
Except for the fact that it didn't come out until a couple of years later, you would have aced my 1977 Grade 11 / Junior High School English class. Our teacher, Mr. O'Donnell, wasn't into the poetry curriculum. He'd played in a band in college, so instead of us interpreting the school district's chosen poems, he brought his guitar and played songs by Don Maclean. I've been a fan of Vincent van Gogh ever since. If you were in the class, and if the song had come out in 1976, and if you wrote this as your interpretation, Mr. O'Donnell would have nominated you for student of the year.
My only criticism of your work is that the song is now stuck in my head. I'll probably be mixing piña coladas soon... Happy weekend!
I don't know if this counts since the lyrics hd to be changed prior to its release but Little Richard's "Tutti Frutti" was originally about anal sex. Pretty provocative for 1955. Also, "Lucille" was about a drag queen (as Little Richard also had a short career as a drag queen prior to fame.) https://songsthatsavedyourlife.substack.com/p/no1-tutti-frutti-little-richard
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Your mind is not thoroughly blown yet: Rupert Holmes was in a band called The Buoys (hey, they could’ve started out as The Sadbois) and they did a song called “Timothy” that is reeeeeeallly sick! About cannibalism!
hahahaha wtf RUPERT ARE YOU OK
The jury’s still out... 😑
Listen to "answering machine" and "him" and you might see how demented his love life really was...
The one song that I didn't realize was very much about doing hard drugs until I was much older was "Semi-Charmed Life" by Third Eye Blind
whoaaaaa what the fuck. maybe I can do a post on all the songs that are actually about doing drugs. my fav is 'perfect day' by lou reed which is his love song to smack
That was truly hilarious.
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1. Yes. I knew, but I did not care.
2. Sure they are. They're fictional characters!
3. I'm sorry - that's classified.
4. Uh... "Stairway To Heaven," and "Total Eclipse of the Heart" (look it up - it's a vampire song).
wait what's stairway to heaven about ????
I don’t know. I just know it’s not about anything I ever thought it was about.
Omg this song is a retelling of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s story “The Offshore Pirate”
i'm almost certain Fitzgerald based his story on this song
Maybe…both are true?
this coincidence is actually what inspired the name for this substack! I was reading about how Rupert Holmes and F. Scott Fitzgerald inspired each other's work and I said, 'both are true'
I had a very similar discussion with book club just a couple weeks ago, when someone forced us to sit still and listen closely to the lyrics. I had NO IDEAAAAAAA
hahaahah
HA! I have known this, about this song, for a while...but will admit that I sang it for many years and the words did not sink in. I now refer to it as "The Philanderer Song". Thank you for the laugh out loud synopsis. This is the essay I didn't know was missing from my life! :)
hahaha 🧡🧡🧡
As Nietzsche once said: “God is dead. We killed him when we all sang that piña colada song.” LMAO! In HS, rumor had it that My Sharona was about The Knack's dick. (Not collectively of course; the lead singer, Sadboi's cousin?)
hahah whaaaaat ! it looks like the truth is actually even worse https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124397021
Wo! Love that this was an NPR story. hehehe.
This cracked me up. Dozens of times. I've read between the lines on this song for years and it's truly twisted. "Dull routine? Then spice things up. Go see a play. Make jambalaya. Do you even know what her love language is? Brother, get yourself together."
thank you!!!
“What if I love to do sex on the beach but in the morning? Not interested.” Lololol. Also: “Yea I wrote this song lol” 😂😂 My high school friends had this convo in the (early) nineties (!) but your recap is hilarious 👑👌
I once stood in the rain for 45 minutes outside the Dew Drop Inn, a bar in the west village, feeding coins into the payphone, hoping he’d pick up and explain why he was so late for our date. A lady walked by and muttered, “Honey he’s not worth it.”
I drove my ass across the great state of NY every other weekend FOR A YEAR for some guy who I didn't remember meeting because I was wasted and who told me he was never going to get married. I'm talking about 500 miles round trip. Including during the WINTER.
And then I moved in with him and then married him.
Incidentally we met 20 years ago this month. Which I don't remember.
if thats not a song its a jim carey movie for sure!!!
Except for the fact that it didn't come out until a couple of years later, you would have aced my 1977 Grade 11 / Junior High School English class. Our teacher, Mr. O'Donnell, wasn't into the poetry curriculum. He'd played in a band in college, so instead of us interpreting the school district's chosen poems, he brought his guitar and played songs by Don Maclean. I've been a fan of Vincent van Gogh ever since. If you were in the class, and if the song had come out in 1976, and if you wrote this as your interpretation, Mr. O'Donnell would have nominated you for student of the year.
My only criticism of your work is that the song is now stuck in my head. I'll probably be mixing piña coladas soon... Happy weekend!
I don't know if this counts since the lyrics hd to be changed prior to its release but Little Richard's "Tutti Frutti" was originally about anal sex. Pretty provocative for 1955. Also, "Lucille" was about a drag queen (as Little Richard also had a short career as a drag queen prior to fame.) https://songsthatsavedyourlife.substack.com/p/no1-tutti-frutti-little-richard
I am cackling to myself on a plane while reading this. Thank you for this!