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I used to know a girl named Diane, who worked in promotion for a big record company. Diane once told me she had recently gotten a mixtape from her new boyfriend, which contained Hüsker Dü´s classic Diane. She was very pleased that loverboy had found her a song with her name in the title. I told her to listen closely to the lyrics and dump the guy.
Gravenhurst do a decent cover of that tune, should check it out. Belle & Sebastian did a song about rape on Arab Strap as well, powerfull tunes.
ReplyDeleteWow. I hope co-worker took your advice! That's jsut creepy.
ReplyDeleteGreat song pick, though.
Husker Du's naive and retarded misogyny made more sense after bob mould came out of the closet
ReplyDeleteWow. Husker Du's naive and retarded misogyny exists only if you think writers writing in the first person are penning autobiographical numbers. Me? Not so much. If anything, it's an anti-rape song, kind of a horror movie scenario in song form. If you can't wrap your mind around that fairly simple concept, then you may want to avoid Nirvana's track, "Rape Me." It may send you into anaphylactic shock.
ReplyDeleteSecondly, you're making the wild, Bob Beamon-esque leap in logic by suggesting that gay men either want to kill women or are inherently misogynistic. The fact that Grant Hart wrote the song is bad enough, but your analysis, such as it is, is painfully ironic in that one could successfully describe it as both naive and clinically retarded.
Kids, the lesson here is that you don't always have to hit the "Publish" button. But hey, live and learn.