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[–] Gaspar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 96 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

DREAMS ARE MADE OF THIS, WHO AM I TO DISAGREE

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] Gaspar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I had originally written that, but I went and looked it up and it actually is "this". ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 33 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Y'know when you're right you're right. The lyrics do indeed say "this"

However I'm going to lump it in with Blinded by the Light because it's definitely sang "these" just like Manfred sang "douche" instead of deuce.

Edit: After relistening to the song she actually does say "this" she simply expresses the /ee/ version of the i in "this" so it sounds like "theeeeis"

To most people not paying attention it would sound like "these" but upon closer inspection she is actually saying "this"

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Who am I to disagris?

[–] CluelessDude@lemmy.zip 6 points 6 months ago

Nuts, Gottem

[–] Shieldtoad@sh.itjust.works 92 points 6 months ago
[–] FunderPants@lemmy.ca 45 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Caroline, every time. Easy choice.

Sweet Home Alabama really grinds my gears. Neil Young sings about systemic racism in the south and Skynard retorts 'yea some people here are racist ♪ but not all of us are ♪ frig off Neil Young♪ whoa now look at the sky'. Horse shit lyrics, sick composition.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Now Watergate does not bother me, uh-uh

Jesus Christ, my eyes are now open.

Where the skies are so blue (and the governor's true)

I unironically had no idea.

[–] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

But "Sweet Caroline" is problematic in a different way. From Wikipedia - "Diamond has provided different explanations for the song's origins. In a 2007 interview, he stated the inspiration for the song was John F. Kennedy's daughter, Caroline, who was 11 years old at the time it was released. Diamond sang the song for her at her 50th birthday celebration in 2007. On December 21, 2011, in an interview on CBS's The Early Show, Diamond said that a magazine cover photo of Caroline as a young child on a horse with her parents created an image in his mind, and the rest of the song came together about five years after seeing the picture. However, in 2014, Diamond said the song was about his then-wife Marcia, but he needed a three-syllable name to fit the melody."

He wrote lyrics about touching each other a few years after seeing her in a photo as a young child?

[–] FunderPants@lemmy.ca 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Gross, classic rock /pop are full of gross stories like that.

[–] JayDee@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

I'm the opposite. Any time I hear the 'Caroline' I get aliitle frustrated.

'Home Alabama' forever and always.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 31 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Where do we go, where do we go now?

[–] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)

As a white person, I choose "sweet release of death."

[–] meekah@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

DUN DUN DUNNN

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 15 points 6 months ago
[–] Oka@lemmy.ml 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] obrenden@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

You talk about things that nobody cares

[–] Signtist@lemm.ee 12 points 6 months ago

Sweet Home Carolina! No, wait...

[–] Baahb@feddit.nl 10 points 6 months ago
[–] stardustsystem@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

🎶Good times never skies so blue🎵

[–] H1jAcK@lemm.ee 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] maggio@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Duuuuuuuude, what does mine say?

[–] spicytuna62@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

And theeeeeeeen?

[–] a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 2 points 6 months ago

Sweet sweet

[–] No_Change_Just_Money@feddit.de 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 months ago

Ich war geknebelt. Ich konnte nicht mal schreien. Oh, Sweet Sweet Gwendoline!

[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 months ago

How'd you do? I

See you met my

Faithful handyman

He's just a little brought down because

When you knocked

He thought you were the

candy man.

[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

So good! So good! So good!

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Caroline, every time.

Sweet Home Alabama is just awful

[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I hate it too, but in it's defense I think it's mostly just over played. That riff is kinda sick.

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago

Lol, when I describe the song to people what I say is almost verbatim: "it sounds like they stumbled upon one really solid guitar riff and were like, fuck it, play that shit for the next 4 minutes! Umm is that gonna be enough for a song? Who gives a shit!"

So yeah, the riff is pretty good

[–] Tikiporch@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

No black people in Alabama or Boston apparently.

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 4 points 6 months ago

I'll be comin home to ba da da!

[–] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago

Sweet Alabama home doesn't sound right, so it's gotta be sweet CAROLINE ^dah dah dah

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Oh no! Whichever way I go, 🎵 country roads, take me home 🎵

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's not a hard choice. Have you ever been to Alabama? Nobody wants to be there, not even the natives. Well, at least the ones that aren't inbred.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

I actually have driven through. I saw a sign for an apparent mud festival.

[–] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What about sweet home alabama or werewolves of london

[–] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] groats_survivor@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Zevon? Or did I get whooshed?

[–] Crowfiend@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago

Probably wooshed since B and V are next to each other on most keyboards, making it a super easy typo.

[–] SonicDeathTaco@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

Or you could choose the road less traveled.

Put a smile on your face Ten miles wide Looks so good Bring a tear to your eye Sweet cherry pie