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We spent the whole time talking about skiing. He used to listen to Glen Miller But he was incredibly open-minded. He remembers being dumped as a year-old and his dad explaining how things would get easier, but that he would soon have to work out how to look out for women, too. Only someone who has had a previous marriage, children, literally at the end of their life, could teach little things like that. Chatting to Skinner can be a bit like directing chaos, too.

That album clearly influenced his film project, but perhaps not as much as his DJing experience. Does he still engage in night-time hedonism himself? But it happens. He has to be, with two kids to look after Amelia, 10, and George, 8 , which must be difficult to balance with the wild nights. Several of the covers actually included this misheard lyric. During that time, most fans assumed this line was just gibberish.

There was even speculation that it was a coded dirty message. The song reached 1 on the Billboard Hot and received heavy airplay after its release in The track is a stream-of-consciousness-style song that lists all the events Joel feels defined his generation. The list is so lengthy that Joel has admitted having trouble remembering all the lyrics.

In the original, expletive-laden version of this song, CeeLo Green drops the F-bomb 16 times in the span of 3. Even still, it reached 2 on the Billboard Hot and broke the 2 million view mark on YouTube within one week of its release.

It closed their show out on July 29, , and six months later their lead singer, Glenn Frey, was dead. While the song is a fan favorite, it was never released as a single, which helped to boost album sales. A large part of that success was due to the media attention that surrounded the unrated cut of the video, which featured topless women, being banned.

Mitchell told The Los Angeles Times that she wrote the song after her first trip to Hawaii, where they had literally paved paradise to put up a parking lot.

But not everyone hears it that way. It might also be their most misunderstood song. The media attention ended up helping boost the overall popularity of the song, which hit 1 in both the U. While we know Madonna as a very outspoken performer today, this was one of her first tracks to openly deal with a political issue.

He even went so far as to occasionally sing the incorrect lyric in concert while nodding or pointing at a male member of his band up on the stage. One of R. Rather than stealing the sequence, R. Far East Movement was essentially a one-hit-wonder. After its release, the song only ever hit 22 on the Billboard Hot Why was she constantly struggling financially? How did educational inequities and lack of employment opportunities affect her life, her family experiences, her education level, her dreams, her ability to be a good parent?

As a woman, how did sexism shape her choices? What was her personal history, including her history with men? Was she ever abused? We know a lot of women with substance abuse problems develop them as a form of self-medication against the effects of trauma. What is the connection between Ms. A more thoughtful approach would seek to understand their plight, and while such an understanding would provide no excuse for abusive behavior if that is what Eminem actually experienced , it would give it much-needed context.

Unfortunately, this context is notably absent from much political discourse — and from 8 Mile. We understand that lyrics are usually not meant to be taken literally. And we think we have a good sense of humor. Millions of American girls and women are assaulted by men each year. According to the U. Gay-bashing is a serious problem all over the country. Music lyrics and other art forms can either in some way illuminate these problems, or they can cynically exploit them.

Eminem is arguably a major force in the latter category. But what exactly is he rebelling against? Powerful women who oppress weak and vulnerable men? Omnipotent gays and lesbians who make life a living hell for straight people?

Instead, he is only a rebel in a very narrow sense of that word. The Marshall Mathers LP! Come get your Slim Shady! Context is everything. The KKK are rebels, too. They boast about it all the time.

They fly the Confederate rebel flag. For more information, go to www. His popularity with girls sends a dangerous message to boys and men. Forward freely.