![]() ![]() “It was the first death I had ever experienced personally. “Last summer we had a dog that was run over and killed, and we loved this dog,” Simon told Rolling Stone in 1972. Paul Simon had a major hit on his hands with the 1972 song “Mother and Child Reunion,” a reggae-infused meditation on death that came about from the loss of a family pet. Parton knew that she owed a huge debut to Wagoner and, as she explained to the Tennessean in 2015, wondered: “How am I gonna make him understand how much I appreciate everything, but that I have to go? So I went home and I thought, ‘Well, what do you do best? You write songs.’ So I sat down and I wrote this song.” 6. Five years later, Parton was itching to move on from the show but Wagoner didn’t want to see that happen. In 1967, country music star program Porter Wagoner invited Parton, then an up-and-coming singer, to be a regular performer on his weekly TV show, The Porter Wagoner Show, as well as to join him on the road. But Parton’s song wasn’t about a romance-failed or otherwise-at all. Thanks in large part to Whitney Houston’s rendition of “I Will Always Love You” in the hit 1992 movie The Bodyguard, the Dolly Parton tune became a battle cry for deeply in-love couples who for, whatever reason, could not be together. “There were tons of guys singing along to ‘Fight for Your Right to Party’ who were oblivious to the fact that it was a total goof on them,” band member Michael “Mike D” Diamond said. In 1986, the Beastie Boys gifted teens across American with a legendary party anthem in “(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!).” There was just one issue: The song was written specifically as a mockery of party anthems. (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!) // Beastie Boys He could have been joking-you always had to be careful with John like that-but I certainly remember him telling me that.” 4. I was with The Beatles when they went back to Hamburg in June 1966 and it was then that John told me that he had coined the phrase ‘a ticket to ride’ to describe these cards. Lennon, however, had a different-and saucier-explanation.Īccording to journalist Don Short, who logged a lot of time traveling with the band back in the day: “The girls who worked the streets in Hamburg had to have a clean bill of health and so the medical authorities would give them a card saying that they didn’t have a dose of anything. In McCartney’s version, the ticket in question is just that: a British Railways ticket to Ryde, a seaside town on the northeastern coast of the Isle of Wight, where McCartney’s cousin owned a pub (he and Lennon once hitchhiked their way there). There’s some contested history between John Lennon and Paul McCartney about what “Ticket to Ride” was referring to, even though the song’s lyrics were credited to both of them. So that’s what “ba duba dop ba du” means. You've got to figure out what matters and you've got to grab onto those things." ![]() The whole song's about the fact that almost everything in your life will come and go very quickly. "'MMMbop' represents a frame of time: 'In an MMMbop they're gone' it says in the lyrics of the song. percent of the people who have any reference from it don’t understand it.” One month later, Zac gave an even more explicit answer about the meaning behind the song while appearing on the Kyle and Jackie O. “Even at the height of 1997, it’s a song nobody understood. ![]() “It’s the most misunderstood successful song of all time,” Zac Hanson told Entertainment Weekly in 2017. Yes, Hanson’s 1997 hit “ MMMBop” contains such lyrics as “Mmm bop, ba duba dop ba du bop, ba duba dop ba du bop, ba duba dop ba du.” And it was written and performed by a trio of young brothers ranging from 11 to 16 years old at the time. ![]()
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