The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #123476   Message #2719007
Posted By: olddude
08-Sep-09 - 12:40 PM
Thread Name: Do you like 'Little Boxes'?
Subject: RE: Do you like 'Little Boxes'?
when you listen to almost any song there is something in it that doesn't fit perhaps. Most song writers write in the moment. I am sure the little boxes pressed her buttons at the time. I wrote a song called "Chasing the Wind" in it is a line "when it comes to a city girl a cowboy never wins" does that mean I dislike city girls. It was a song about a make believe breakup and nothing more. I think we can find that in almost any song if we look hard enough.   This song is just bad. Never liked the melody, liked the lyrics even worse. To me it is not worth playing however it is probably much gentler than anything on the radio today. That is where the objection should be directed. Have you heard the gansta rap references to women. That should press everyone's buttons I think. Not a 50 year old song that has been long forgotten. I hear young HS school kids throwing the N word around because of their rap hero's ... to me that is sad ...