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Miley Cyrus’s BB Talk; or, Hey, I’m Just a Regular Armpit-Sniffing, Teeth-Licking Gal

July 29, 2025 at 6:07 AM Everybody can reply

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He Wants Us To Cry | The Outside By Alex Warren Reaction

#Reaction #TheOutside #AlexWarren #HeWantsUsToCry #Emotional #MusicReview #Feelings #Vibes #SongAnalysis #Trending

July 28, 2025 at 7:36 PM Everybody can reply

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Just when you think “baby talk” can’t get any more annoying, Miley Cyrus’s BB Talk takes it to a new level — with way too many f-bombs and awkward lyrics to match.
#MusicCritique #MileyCyrus #BBTalk #SongReview #LyricsMatter #PopMusic #SongAnalysis
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“BB Talk” is the pot calling the kettle black while trying too hard to sound black. If I were the kettle, I would tell the pot, ‘Well, at least I’m not a wigger.’ In the song, Miley Cyrus is so f…

ENJOY THE SILENCE: Do As I Say, Not As I Sing

July 21, 2025 at 7:25 AM Everybody can reply

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Depeche Mode’s Enjoy the Silence is a love song about how words are useless — delivered in words, by a band famous for theirs.
#MusicCriticism #DepecheMode #SongAnalysis #PopIrony #Synthpop
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“Enjoy the Silence” (1990) might be the sincerest case of do as I say, not as I do in pop music — a song about the futility of words that means every word it says. I believe Dave Gahan means everyt…

July 21, 2025 at 5:07 AM Everybody can reply

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Two Waitresses and No Tip: Live’s Grunge Sermon Vs. Hop Along’s Indie Confessional

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Two songs. One waitress. A world of difference.
Live’s “Waitress” turns a bad tip into a spiritual crisis.
Hop Along’s “Waitress” stays small — and cuts deeper.
#HopAlong #Live #ThrowingCopper #PaintedShut #IndieRock #PostGrunge #MusicEssay #SongAnalysis
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Hop Along’s “Waitress” (2015) gives Live’s 1994 song of the same name a run for its tip money. Both songs take place in that charged, transactional space between customer and server, and both flirt…

July 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM Everybody can reply

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YOU STUPID BITCH: Girl in Red’s Gaslighter’s Love Song

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🎶 When does a love song stop being romantic and start sounding manipulative? Girl in Red’s “You Stupid Bitch” walks that thin line — and trips over it.
#MusicCriticism #GirlInRed #ToxicLoveSongs #SongAnalysis #PopCultureCritique #IndiePop #MusicEssay
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“But you never listen/Take my advice as criticism,” Girl in Red tells her romantic interest in “You Stupid Bitch” (2021). Could it be because her so-called advice is criticism? And not very constru…

July 15, 2025 at 5:41 AM Everybody can reply

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“All I Wanna Do” Isn’t a Summer Anthem — It’s a Hangover Dirge

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Sheryl Crow’s “All I Wanna Do” plays like a summer party hit, but listen closer — it’s really a deadpan portrait of barfly burnout and booze-soaked ennui.
#SherylCrow #AllIWannaDo #90sMusic #SongAnalysis #HiddenMeanings #MusicCriticism
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“All I Wanna Do” may be the “Every Breath You Take” of the 1990s — a massively misinterpreted massive hit. Just because it’s set “to a sweet instrumental setting of jangly guitars and toe-tapping b…

IT’S A GREAT DAY TO BE ALIVE (2000) by Travis Tritt vs. IT WAS A GOOD DAY (1993) by Ice Cube

July 14, 2025 at 6:53 AM Everybody can reply

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Ice Cube and Travis Tritt both wrote perfect-day songs. One’s about getting everything. The other’s about needing nothing.
#MusicEssay #TravisTritt #IceCube #ItWasAGoodDay #ItsAGreatDayToBeAlive #SongAnalysis
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Two men. Two musical genres. Two perfect days. On the surface, Travis Tritt’s “It’s a Great Day to Be Alive” and Ice Cube’s “It Was a Good Day” couldn’t sound or seem more different. One’s a Southe…

Talking About Johnny Kidd & The Pirate's "Shaking All Over"

July 5, 2025 at 7:17 AM Everybody can reply

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Selena Gomez & Benny Blanco’s I Said I Love You First: Lyrics Decoded #music #lyrics #selenagomez #bennyblanco #songanalysis NoMagaNews.com

March 22, 2025 at 12:16 AM Everybody can reply

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All I want to talk about is music I love. These other thoughts are a sideshow. Part 0011 on an unending series in which I talk about songs that either made me want to play music or somehow influenced the music. #musicnerd #songexplainer #songanalysis

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January 23, 2025 at 9:30 PM Everybody can reply

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*sings along*

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Check out the lyrics on the choruses – they just build and build, across several verses.

#songanalysis #prophecies

As by Stevie Wonder on Apple Music

Song · 1976 · Duration 7:08

January 19, 2025 at 11:17 AM Everybody can reply

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#songanalysis

I'm in the process of moving, but if I get time today: song alalysis time! Today, it'll be Stevie Wonder's "As," but delving a little deeper this time, becuase I'm going to have to do some research, as well as cover the prophetic portions of the song:

January 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM Everybody can reply

Call It Democracy by Bruce Cockburn on Apple Music

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#songanalysis

There's so much here. Read the lyrics, you need them.

This is our situation in North Oakland right now:

Two buildings, right near MacArthur BART. "Oh good, they're building mixed income housing." Y'all, the two companies that own just these two buildings?

Song · 1986 · Duration 3:52

As by Stevie Wonder on Apple Music

January 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM Everybody can reply

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Let your kin know this song, though.

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Stevie was and is wise beyond his years. Listen to the lyrics, especially on the choruses. He builds it up to convey the real message.

He was 26 when he released this song.

#songanalysis #stolenland #timeitself

Song · 1976 · Duration 7:08

January 12, 2025 at 5:12 PM Everybody can reply

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note the lyrics in both cases #songanalysis

will discourse on (and hopefully, discuss! #church) later

January 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM Everybody can reply

Story 2 by clipping. on Apple Music

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will discuss this later #songanalysis

January 12, 2025 at 2:59 PM Everybody can reply

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#songanalysis

Doesn't feel like the right moment for the songs I was planning to analyze today, so shifting gears a bit.

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Daveed's a good dude. This is his band, clipping – them as well as his work on the TV series version of Snowpiercer are worth checking out.

Song · 2014 · Duration 2:12