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[-] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 115 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Drove my Chevy to to the levee

But the levee was bi

And them good ol' boys were talking bout femboy thighs

Singing I just love DEI

[-] RedWizard@hexbear.net 57 points 2 months ago

"Hey Weird Al, you know that new sound you were lookin for? Well listen to this!"

[-] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 97 points 2 months ago

twice divorced and domestic abusing 73 year old boomer [with a 24 year old girlfriend] most famous for writing a eulogy about the "innocence" of the 1950s in the 1970s has Phase IV (Profound Lead Toxicity) rated political takes.

i am shocked.

[-] regul@hexbear.net 26 points 2 months ago

Things just haven't been the same since the Big Bopper died.

[-] rhubarb@hexbear.net 70 points 2 months ago

That is a top 5 most horrible song to realize to be entirely unironic

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Also anything from Marty Robbins that isn't about old west rooting tooting

[-] QueerCommie@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago
[-] Dingus_Khan@hexbear.net 21 points 2 months ago

If you like the rooting tooting western aspect, may I suggest Cisco Houston? He was a folk singer and Wobbly troubadour from the depression era who sang a bunch of the old cowboy tunes

[-] QueerCommie@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

Nah, not my thing. What I like about these guys is the voice. The lyrics are just silly.

[-] Dingus_Khan@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

Ok fair, but Cisco has the most buttery smooth voice around! Not trying to convince you to like something you don't, just have to go to bat for the guy

[-] QueerCommie@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

I mean, he sounds like Woody Guthrie or Pete Seger. Not terrible, but not my first pick.

[-] Tiocfaidhcaisarla@hexbear.net 43 points 2 months ago

This song confused me as a kid so I asked my dad what is was about, he explained who the people in the crash were. But 9/11 had just happened and I was just like oh that's basically nothing compared to that and he had to admit that was true.

Anyways, death to America

[-] homhom9000@hexbear.net 17 points 2 months ago

I also don't know what it's about and know maybe 10% of the words. What crash?

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 24 points 2 months ago

NATOpedia

idk, I think this was a big deal for boomers or something, I know who Big Bopper was because of a joke on Futurama and Buddy Holly because of the Weezer song that was included with Windows 95 shrug-outta-hecks

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[-] ColonelKataffy@hexbear.net 36 points 2 months ago

i drove a chevy, i'm eugene levy, my son fucked a pie

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[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 36 points 2 months ago

I thought that song was about a plane crash bruh

[-] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 22 points 2 months ago

Yeah not sure what it has to do with "wokism"

[-] rootsbreadandmakka@hexbear.net 33 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I think he's saying the whole song is meant as a criticism of the 60s counterculture and mourning the end of 50s America, and today's "wokism" is just an extension of the various sixties movements. He's nostalgic about driving his truck down to the sock hop with a pink carnation in his suit and then going down to drink with the "good ol' boys" at the levee. Now Lenin (Lennon) is reading Marx and everything is just too damn political! He directly calls out a bunch of the classic 60s counterculture songs.

[-] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 24 points 2 months ago

"good ol' boys"

Note: don't ask how good they were to black people

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 26 points 2 months ago

I guess he has to try to pretend like the song is deeper than it really is, because otherwise he's gotta admit to himself that there are about three generations alive today who couldn't care less about The Day The Music Died.

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 27 points 2 months ago

"the day the music died" aka 9/11 for cracker music

[-] TillieNeuen@hexbear.net 26 points 2 months ago

Killing me softly with his dumbassness

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 24 points 2 months ago

Make like your song and die old man

[-] Elon_Musk@hexbear.net 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Don Mclean failed to account fo-

"And while Lenin read a book on Marx

The quartet practiced in the park

And we sang dirges in the dark

The day the music died"

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[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 18 points 2 months ago
[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 months ago

Is this the day that you die yet?

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago

I'm kinda shocked this guy's still alive.

Honestly, I learned about this song because of the Madonna cover like 25 years ago, and had no idea what it was about.

[-] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago

American Pie is one of those songs that would make me walk off to do odd tasks or take a bathroom break at work should it have popped up on the radio.

[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 2 months ago

Don McLean is still alive?

[-] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

Who is this loser and why is he taking credit for a song that Madonna orginally wrote for the millennium to go with that one with all the green lasers? soviet-huff

[-] bunnygirl@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

the WOKES are trying to take your DRY LEVEES away (stopping droughts caused by climate change)

[-] nothx@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago
[-] Dickey_Butts@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

11/10 no notes, i have laughed at this like 4 separate times

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