I might cry at songs about leaving and missing someone; I might cry at books where things don’t work out; I might cry at movies where someone dies. I’ve just never really understood why people get all choked up over happy, inspirational things. But Michelle Obama’s kindness and ...
A favorite of metal fans everywhere, this stellar track from the album Master of Reality talks about leaving the Earth and pollution being the doom of mankind. 57 22 votes "Technologic" by Daft Punk Daft Punk View on AMAZON Told from the point of view of their robot alter egos, the song...
To his credit, I think director Michael Winterbottom was aiming for a profound statement about the nature of contemporary society, but it just didn't work. He went off the track somewhere. Nine Songs does have some striking scenery of endless wind-swept snowy tundra that is supposedly Antarctic...
UntilDouble Fantasy, most of the films and recordings Lennon created with Ono were of limited public usefulness. But the starkPlastic Ono Bandis generally considered a masterpiece, and the more conventional Lennon album that followed,Imagine(1971), is a major work keynoted by its beloved title ...
This Gershwin Brothers tune evinces the romantic charm that 1930s musicals were all about, and is also a subtle sendup of class differences: Astaire insists their affair will never work out because he pronounces words in a more refined way. You know that love will prevail, though, when they...
This feel-good song is often thought to be named 'Don't Worry About a Thing' or 'Every Little Thing is Gonna Be Alright', due to its repeated lyrics in the chorus, but nope! The Story of... 'Three Little Birds' The inspiration behind Marley's uplifting song remains disputed. They ...
The handful of great singles about sex work have made their characters sound pitiful. “5 dollars” does something different. Through transactional physicality, the solicitor and solicited in Héloïse Letissier’s story get to revel in their instincts, freed from harsh gazes and self-loathing—...
If you’re looking for a song about hard work paying off, you might want to include this single from Taylor Swift in your playlist. It is a celebration of a triumphant moment after all the setbacks, hardships, doubts, and other challenges you’ve been through along the way. ...
With her poetic eye and warm melodies, Jamila Woods can spin profundity out of the simplest things. On its face, her single “Tiny Garden” is a love song, but it soon reveals itself as something more: a song about the everyday work that love takes. Woods sings about moving slowly and...
I have done some work to adapt the ideas in "The Nature of Order" to poetry, and some stuff I wrote about that can be found on thispage. RPG’s Writing Broadside [html] In my book of essays. "Patterns of Software," and in some other publications, I have published a list of nine...