Not because they dated - he’s all kinds of gay - but because he was focusing on promoting Joni Mitchell instead of her.Ĭarly laughed it off and says this is still wrong. Speculation started that she was pissed off at Geffen, who was the head of her record label. People listened and believed they could hear her whisper “David Geffen.” Then, last year, Carly said she revealed the name by whispering it in a new acoustic version of the song.
For decades, people thought she was singing about James Taylor. This is one of the most famous mysteries in music history. 5 | Who is Carly Simon singing about in You’re So Vain? Like Jules’s Ezekiel 25:17 in Pulp Fiction. The other theory, and the one I tend to prescribe to, is that it’s just a bunch of nonsense strung together to sound cool. And Stairway is a legendary song - so maybe Springsteen really was on to something. The most popular guess is that it’s a metaphor for menstruation (with “a spring clean for the May Queen” furthering that theory). 4 | What’s “a bustle in your hedgerow” from Stairway To Heaven? And the reason people visit Tarpon Springs, Florida. It’s the reason Maxi Priest became a star. Springsteen even said (mostly joking) that the song never became popular until Manfred Mann made it about feminine hygiene products. The only problem is… it sounds extraordinary like “wrapped up like a douche.” You know, with the kids.īut when Blinded by the Light became a number one hit for Manfred Mann’s Earth Band, they changed the lyric to “revved up like a deuce.” Which still makes a modicum of sense. In Bruce Springsteen’s original version of Blinded By the Light the chorus goes “Blinded by the light, cut loose like a deuce another runner in the night.” He was talking about the 1932 Ford Coupe which was nicknamed the Deuce and was a popular hot rod. (Kind of like every sports column written in the past 15 years.) 3 | In Blinded By the Light, if they’re not saying “wrapped up like a douche,” then what the hell are they saying?
#BLINDED BY THE LIGHT LYRICS MEANING MOVIE#
The lyrics and music eerily match up with the action on screen.Ĭheck out this website for a list of tons of syncs between the album and the movie (for example, on the lyrics “Run, rabbit! Run!” the Wicked Witch throws a fireball at the Scarecrow and he tries to run).īut… as much as every teenager smoking a bunch of stems would love for all this to be true, it’s really just a mix of coincidence and confirmation bias. If you’re not familiar with this urban legend, there’s a theory that if you start the Dark Side of the Moon album just as the MGM lion roars for the third time to start The Wizard of Oz, they sync up. And while this is unconfirmed, I’m sure John Stamos gave her the business too - because no one goes to the Cheesecake Factory and just has the appetizers and entrees.) 2 | Does Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon sync up with The Wizard of Oz? (There’s also a chance it is about Bob Saget, because Alanis briefly dated HIM too. So… let’s go with an 88 percent chance that You Oughta Know is about Dave Coulier. And Alanis has said it’s about a “predictable” person from “a public relationship.”
No word if that older version was perverted like Alanis, or if, by the early ’90s, Canada even HAD movie theaters in which she could go down on him.Ĭoulier also said he genuinely believes the song is about him. He did get into fights with her for “bug in the middle of dinner” and he did dump her for a woman who was older but otherwise similar to Alanis (“an older version of me”). 1 | Is Alanis Morissette singing about Dave Coulier in You Oughta Know?īefore Alanis was famous she dated Dave Coulier - the Popeye impression is a real aphrodisiac, you know.Īnd, in an interview several years later, he said a few of the lyrics really hit home. Or, in most cases, at least find the most popular theories.
I wanted to take some of the biggest mysteries about songs and their lyrics and try to find the answers to them. In the list I did a few days ago about the iPad, I mentioned Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon… which reminded me of this list idea I once thought of but summarily forgot about and never wrote. Who’s Alanis singing about in You Oughta Know? Does Dark Side of the Moon sync with Wizard of Oz? And so many more…
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