By adamg on Wed., 8/21/2024 - 10:19 am
If you missed the DNC last night, each state's delegation was introduced with a song. Ours was, well, let NPR explain it:
Massachusetts: I’m Shipping Up to Boston - Dropkick Murphys
The American Celtic band was formed in Quincy, Mass. The song itself describes a sailor with a missing leg, who is going to Boston in search of a wooden prosthetic.
Imagine if they'd used Queen of Suffolk County instead.
H/t Karyn Regal.
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Hey, at least we're not Montana.
By jmeltzer
Wed, 08/21/2024 - 3:05pm
They got American Woman - the Lenny Kravitz version.
American Woman! Of all songs!
Not only are the lyrics highly inappropriate for a woman candidate, but ... is Lenny Kravitz even from Montana?
And if the DNC needed a Montana song, there's an obvious one. What kind of dental floss were they smoking? Really, now.
Montana isn't that far from Chicago
By tachometer
Wed, 08/21/2024 - 6:55pm
I'm having a hard time understanding why their delegation couldn't have traveled by pygmy pony to get there.
Or Alabama
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 08/21/2024 - 8:32pm
Did the DJ realize how confederate that song is? Yikes.
‘Sweet Home Alabama’ is anti
By Frelmont
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 12:52am
‘Sweet Home Alabama’ isn’t confederate. Neil Young was wrong to paint everyone with the same brush and he apologized for it. It’s a “sins of the father†problem.
It's a bit more complicated
By lbb
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 10:47am
You say that "Sweet Home Alabama" isn't confederate, and yet Lynyrd Skynyrd posed in front of a confederate flag. So...it's complicated.
"'Sweet Home Alabama'? Good
By Scratchie
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 12:29pm
"'Sweet Home Alabama'? Good song! Does it need to be played? No! Are we good on it? Yes!"
- Pat Finnerty
I think in the context of the
By Frelmont
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 4:55pm
I think in the context of the album and song it’s an artistic expression rather than lifting the battle flag of the vanquished Confederacy. Anyone waving that flag today is almost by definition a pariah. While it’s true there is still circumstantial/situational situations where people may rightly feel menaced by individuals displaying/waving/ threatening with the Confederate flag we probably give people too little credit for having mental and emotional fortitude, strength and sense not to have a negative psycho emotional response to it. I do see there may be a threat to the ego as we vie for cultural dominance, or whatever when there’s an expectation to drive such a symbol from anyone’s view.
Okay.
By SwirlyGrrl
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 8:40pm
Okay.
I made a re-edit
By cybah
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 6:48pm
I made a re-edit of a TV movie a while back and I included "Sweet Home Alabama" in the re-edit. (the re-edit just added a modern soundtrack to the movie).
I removed that song after they did that and replaced it with "Let Your Love Flow" by the Bellamy Brothers. Fuck them racists.
But after listening to "Sweet Home Alabama" many many times over and over again while editing the movie, I determined the song is a early 70s backlash song about the mentality of the people in the American South and how they don't like gov't telling them what to do. Lots of references to 1970s politics.. Vietnam, Nixon and such.
I always felt like Lynyrd Skynyrd was a 'southern rock band' and catered to that audience. After that photo was posted, this cemented it.
I hope it’s not racism, but
By Frelmont
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 10:05pm
I hope it’s not racism, but rather an imperfect? complicated? human? need for identity and belonging, survival and validation. People are complicated, damaged and imperfect and capable of change, making amends and being forgiven. Art transcends.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/l...
What we need
By Kaz
Wed, 08/21/2024 - 3:37pm
We need to lean into that 80's tourism jingle "The Spirit of Massachusetts" and have a pop artist from around here with some current clout, like Meghan Trainor, record a full-length rendition of it.
As repopularized by Family Guy:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLMaCprRcu8[/youtube]
Start at the dawn of a new day….
By Frelmont
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 10:11pm
Best place song ever?
https://youtu.be/rKaMVVe_aSI
Another vote for "Roadrunner".
By Don't Panic
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 12:44am
Roadrunner Once. Roadrunner twice.. This should be the Massachusetts song it's so nice. Radio ON!
DNC Song Requirements
By blues_lead
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 9:26am
The best walk-on songs (Turn Down for What) had all these in spades. The worst were missing some, but especially the hype (Mr Brightside wtf).
Typical DNC
By BostonDog
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 12:55pm
Unimportant, design-by-committee stipulations that are bureaucratic only for the sake of bureaucracy.
No committee
By blues_lead
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 2:12pm
This was my assessment of what all delegate groups played, and what went well vs what fell flat.
Reba
By cybah
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 1:12pm
I mean if we are throwing out songs...
Why not Reba McEntire's "Whoever's in New England" also.
♪ You've been spending alot of time in Massachusetts...♪
(I gotta give her credit for being able to put the word Massachusetts into a song)
[youtube] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es1xpUxrMhU [/youtube]
If we're talking New England songs...
By lbb
Fri, 08/23/2024 - 11:04am
...I want to nominate Betty Carter, "New England".
And in the fall a familiar story is retold by the red and gold trees
Not King Solomon in all his glory was as fabulous as one of these
'that girl is poison'
By schneidz
Wed, 02/05/2025 - 7:38am
'never trust a big butt in a smile !'.
Shipping Up to Boston is not
By Hyde Park
Mon, 08/26/2024 - 7:36pm
the Dropkick Murphys only Boston song. "Fairmount Hill" does the trick
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