#metamourship

[arisugawawaterfall]

I could watch Jennifer Nettles all day. I have lots of thoughts about this video (Sugarland's "Stay" and Metamour Dynamics in Mainstream Music) but mostly it just gives me all the feels.

[unquietpirate-blog]

How cool is this? A restaurant in Pittsburgh that rotates its menu (and has community events) based on who the U.S. is currently in international conflict with, in an effort to educate Americans about the history, culture, politics, and people of countries we're being told by the government/media we should be "enemies" with. Right now, they're focusing on Palestine.

[unquietpirate-blog]

#2. "Silly Love Songs" by Paul McCartney

"Silly Love Songs" is so deceptively angry that it's impossible to know it's angry at all without knowing the backstory. "Silly Love Songs" is one of Paul McCartney's biggest hits. It has a killer chorus, a monster bass line, and is so gosh darn singable that you might never get it out of your head. On it's face, it is a simple love song, but it's actually a gigantic, passive-aggressive, revenge-is-a-dish-best-served-up-cold fuck you to John Lennon (who totally had it coming).

What It's About

Prior to this song's release, John Lennon wrote a very UN-deceptively angry song about Paul McCartney called "How Do You Sleep," which painted McCartney as a talentless, sellout hack. And then, just to make sure Paul felt really bad, he got George Harrison to play on the track, too. In response, Paul McCartney sings a song about how people still need silly love songs, and asks what's wrong with that.

Angriest Lyrics

I Love You

Now, this might not seem like the angriest lyric in the world, but you have to think of it in context. Lennon accused McCartney of writing vapid love songs. McCartney responds by writing a song with the chorus "I love you." Nothing could be more trite than that. He then sets it to some of the catchiest music he has ever written, and releases it as a single, where it dominates the air waves and commercial rock radio and elevators and malls for the next handful of years until Lennon's death. It is a wonderful response to being attacked, which surely pissed Lennon off. And considering Lennon himself would start writing sappy love songs only a few years later, you really have to consider Paul the good guy on this one.

- Cracked.com: 5 Upbeat Songs That Are Way Angrier Than You Realize

I have a whole new respect for this song.