She sang about pain to exorcise it; she sang about strength to spread it.
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While classic mainstream Italian pop sang about picture postcard versions of the city – of pizza, pasta, and mandolins – the neomelodici sang about painful love, poverty, divorce and unwanted pregnancies.
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And I've never sang about it or wrote about it.
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They sang about a Palestinian grandmother, and discussed dental hygiene.
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He sang about girls, naturally, but also about mistreated street traders.
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For a couple of hours, she sang about the goddess Durga.
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Young people swept the streets, many sang about the sit-in.
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In her songs she gave advice, and she sang about everyone.
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Marley sang about everything from love to freedom to self-reflection.
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Then Sisqo sang about thongs and they really knew about thongs.
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What was it that the Eagles sang about the ominous Hotel California?
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On her last album, Miley sang about finding love again with Hemsworth.
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The songs moved slowly as FKA twigs sang about desire and devotion.
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Remember when Miley sang about "molly" and we all clutched our pearls?
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On her last album, Cyrus sang about finding love again with Hemsworth.
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Yes, they sang about heartbreak and girls and, well, that's about it really.
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Ray Charles sang about it, former President Barack Obama was photographed eating it.
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In Lemonade, Beyoncé sang about the power of Black womanhood amid romantic strife.
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" He sang about Trump tweeting "from a gold-plated White House toilet seat.
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While the Sex Pistols snarled and the Clash sermonized, Buzzcocks sang about love.
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That's even better than when Paul Weller sang about the Co-op supermarket.
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In fact, listen to the extremely confident Muddy Waters, who sang about it.
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In the song "Imagine," John Lennon sang about a world with no religion.
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I was interested when the nuns sang about solving a problem like Maria.
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She sang about trouble long in mind, with some kicks along the way.
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South BeachThis is it, the Vice City capital that Will Smith sang about.
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She saw community members creating bands that dressed in robes and sang about magic.
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Taylor Swift was onto something when she sang about that red lip, classic thing.
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He sang about "Ordinary People," but John Legend is taking on an extraordinary role.
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Or what if Aurora and Cinderella both sang about their true loves, each other?
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The Torontonian sang about how the weed and the booze had made him emotional.
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Fans also shared lyrics from his song "Legends," where he sang about dying young.
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So, creativity's not doing it, tequila's not doing it … and I even sang about it.
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Suddenly it seems the "strong foundation" Burr and Hamilton sang about isn't all that solid.
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On the original "Girls Need Love," Summer Walker sang about her cravings with lethargic swing.
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Bey smashed windows with baseball bats, talked about being lied to, sang about being wronged.
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I could do all my dance moves while Beyoncé sang about Becky with the good hair.
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He wrote love songs about men and sang about strippers with a devotion that approached reverence.
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"[They sang about] attitude, character, and also they had their own message as well," Marina says.
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Along with the typical punk themes of disaffection, the Chinkees sang about mahjongg and broken English.
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When Charles Trenet sang about "La Mer," perhaps he was thinking of this sumptuous shellfish spread.
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" It is not the case that "no one ever sang about the women of the laundries.
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The great tenor Enrico Caruso sang about 2000 roles; the storied diva Maria Callas, roughly 230.
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Late-night host James Corden sang about the summer's news events to the tune of mega-hit.
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Shelton sang about "getting over her" on his single, "Came Here To Forget," which released in March.
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Nine Inch Nails is quickly becoming the nerdiest rock band since Led Zeppelin sang about J.R.R. Tolkien.
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Prime Minister Saad Hariri was in the audience as Sinno sang about political corruption and police violence.
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The whole thing was just carefully sang about not letting your past determine who you always will be.
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The Weather Girls sang about their hopes to one day wake up and see that it's raining men.
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He sang about a Cadillac and Rolls-Royce, but of course, Marc Bolan never learned how to drive.
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Steven Tyler once sang about love in an elevator — but now he's all about love in a grocery aisle!
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" On 1989, the star sang about finally being free of a broken relationship on the album's final track, "Clean.
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In the United States, Doris Day, Bing Crosby, Eartha Kitt and the Kingston Trio all sang about the Seine.
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It was exactly the sort of tragic, untimely end he always sang about, which only made it more crushing.
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That sickness of soul calls for the balm that Mahalia Jackson sang about, and so many others before her.
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Although Tamko sang about feeling small, trapped and weaker than she wanted to be, her underlying determination was clear.
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Bono sang about home, and about his mother, and the L.E.D. screens showed old footage of an Irish wedding.
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THEN: Taylor Swift was a sugary sweet country singer who sang about ex-boyfriends dumping her on the phone.
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And because Mr Svampa and Jannacci sang about the bawdy lives of normal Milanesi, their themes will always be relevant.
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Kesha once sang about a "Party at a Rich Dude's House" – and now she can celebrate selling her own abode.
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The English star sang about his experiences as a gay man on his breakout 2014 album, In the Lonely Hour.
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For years, Sum 41 sang about drinking and partying, and embodied the carefree, fast-living attitude expected of punk rockers.
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It was twangy, rough, and raw; Haggard's songs, like the (mostly) men he sang about, were simultaneously tough and tender.
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Drake sang about them, Hitchcock made a film about them and they form the inspo glue that binds Pinterest together.
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On Classic Connection track "Scooter Pants," Zac sang about legacy, about the pressures of growing up and becoming an adult.
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He sang about hard times and about getting through them with love; he rejoiced at surviving stomach cancer last year.
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When she sang about unrequited love, adversity or pride in the Romany culture, her voice was a caldron of emotions.
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There was leisure time for cars and girls, which is what Chuck Berry, in his genius, calculated and sang about.
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The president instead landed in Corpus Christi under blue skies as big as home-state hero George Strait sang about.
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They are the wandering protagonist in the atomic wasteland that Bono wrote and Cash sang about on Zooropa's final song.
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Blur were a group of middle-class students, who sang about "Coffee and TV" when Oasis called for "Cigarettes and Alcohol".
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The neighborhood they're cruising around is called Trenchtown, made famous by Bob Marley ... who lived there and frequently sang about it.
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It totally gives new meaning to that "all in this together" mantra that those choreographed students sang about in the movies.
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Jackson the lover is probably the one we can most relate to as he sang about experiences we all inherently understand.
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Jennifer Murphy posted a video last April in which she sang about being a "neenja" in an characteur-like Asian accent.
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I, for one, would love to read a black woman writing about the man who sang about "the colored girls" singing.
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Black bodies in the early to mid-20th century often swung from trees, offering the strange fruit Billie Holiday sang about.
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Over the next half century, José José sang about love and heartbreak as he became an idol in his native Mexico.
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At an event in the northeastern city of Recife over the weekend, his supporters sang about feeding dog food to feminists.
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OJ Simpson; and he hilariously and arrogantly sang about the "Agony" of privilege in a standout scene in Disney's Into the Woods.
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When I watched "Marge Versus the Monorail," for example, Lyle Lanley sang about the a town with money in extreme close up.
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Also factoring in the fairy tale is a legendary river the sister's mom (Evan Rachel Wood) sang about when they were kids….
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In the video, which has now been taken offline, they sang about "bringing missions back" to the tune of Justin Timberlake's "SexyBack".
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Maynard James Keenan, performing as usual in darkness while silhouetted against the video screen, sang about humanity in its most dire states.
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And, of course, they sang about Laura Dern ordering a kale salad... ...Laura Dern dressed slutty in court... ...Laura Dern... LAURA DERN.
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Here's what else is happening: When "Annie" sang about a day that's gray (and lonely), perhaps she was talking about this one.
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In "1944," the song that won the Eurovision competition in 2016, Jamala sang about Soviet abuses under Stalin in her native Crimea.
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But look the adulation was piled on so high, it was so over the top that even Obama joked and sang about it.
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Cyrus, who sang about her Southern California home in her song "Malibu," didn't let the loss of their home hinder her birthday celebrations.
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After all, it was the way you sang about those demons that made everyone fall in love with you in the first place.
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People who had never used a pay phone sang about running out of change and being unable to make a crucial, lovesick call.
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" Ms. Smith received the most enthusiastic applause when she sang about "the power to dream, to rule, to wrestle the world from fools.
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Post "Bangerz," Cyrus sang about her pets on "Miley Cyrus and her Dead Petz" and got back together with ex-fiancé Liam Hemsworth.
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What if Bey sang about rewarding Jay for good sex not with a trip to Red Lobster — but to a French luxury fashion house?
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Inspired by the tunes of Grease's "Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee," Bush sang about his hope to get back to working on television.
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When his band's big break came, Tom Petty sang about freedom, in all of the unclear but hopeful ways rock singers sing about freedom.
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Lab sang about the threats that constantly linger for women in America, then finished with a call for voter participation in the midterm elections.
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He sang about tragic love in an operatic falsetto, over orchestral timbres laced with sampled screams; he shrieked and cackled and brandished a whip.
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Titled "Slow," the sketch was a parody R&B song where Driver and other SNL stars sang about lovers taking things slow, real slow.
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And a handful of readers emailed to remind me that the late titan of Outlaw Country, Oildale's own Merle Haggard, already sang about them.
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In the 1920s, the blues artists Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey sang about having money of their own and being supported by other women.
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The comedian choked back tears as he sang about "the last big hang" he had with Farley at Tim Meadows' wedding party in July 1997.
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An early weird moment came as Prince's sister stepped onstage and sang about 30 seconds worth of a cappella and shouted out her other siblings.
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You kind of, sometimes, can feel like, "Well we had our day…" but we sang about it and that turned into a really good song.
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As Jakob Dylan, the musical guest, sang about how he had nothing but the whole wide world to gain, I wept softly in the darkness.
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Paisley sang about quintessentially American things — like filling up on Costco samples, getting into heated debates with relatives on Facebook, and wearing Crocs with socks.
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Lefty Frizzell was a hard drinker — another subject he sang about — but his aplomb rarely faltered; his decline becomes audible only in some 1970s songs.
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As the Lijadu Sisters, she and her identical twin, Taiwo, sang about injustice and hope and had a string of hit records in the 21988s.
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Mr. Michael "sang about wanting to be free often enough to make you wonder whether he thought any freedom was ever attainable," our critic writes.
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With his long-breathed croon floating over unassuming low-fi production, he sang about circumscribed but smartphone-connected lives, misfiring romances and looming life choices.
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It was a darker, yet somehow still colorful, turn for a woman who once sang about how to be the heartbreaker (not the other way around).
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His songs were always raw and intensely personal, which meant that he often sang about suicidal ideation or the substances that ended up taking his life.
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When Ariel sang about "gadgets and gizmos aplenty," she was referring to all the rad stocking stuffers that just went on sale in the Mashable Shop.
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The band that once famously sang about washing 13 Vicodins down with 30 Keystone Lights has put forth 14 (mostly) new tales of scumbaggery served lukewarm.
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But back then, when the AIDs crisis was on the brink of devastating whole communities, and when women rarely sang about sex, it was considered taboo.
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Performing became the type of bondage he sang about on "Devil's Pie," a track more hip-hop than R&B that was produced by DJ Premier.
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Mere weeks after dropping her album Thank U, Next, Ariana Grande has headed back to the studio with an ex she sang about in the titular single.
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What might have been the hollowed-out industrial shell that Billy Joel sang about in his blue-collar anthem "Allentown" is now a humming middle-class oasis.
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Her first solo single was 223's "I'm Every Woman," where she sang about being a strong woman and following one's intuition over a dancey disco beat.
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He "sang about wanting to be free often enough to make you wonder whether he thought any freedom was ever attainable," our critic writes in an appraisal.
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"Unnie Choir" sang about their struggles at a sold-out concert in the socially conservative nation, where homosexuality remains taboo despite rapid economic advances in recent decades.
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"Unnie Choir" sang about their struggles at a sold-out concert in the socially conservative nation, where homosexuality remains taboo despite rapid economic advances in recent decades.
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She sang about love, but it had not been good to her, and she avoided revelation; Vaughan took an instrumental approach with even the most candid lyrics.
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She'd spent her forties, geriatric in pop years, proving there was a place for a middle-aged women pop stars who sang about being women and middle-aged.
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She sang about the old Taylor being dead, replaced by a take-no-prisoners version of herself who would hold nothing back against those who have wronged her.
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The trio, who called themselves the "USA Freedom Kids," sang about America's greatness and what Trump will do for the country if he wins the 2016 presidential race.
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She sang about sex and food and savages and the Devil and Hell and really exciting things you don't hear on 'Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook.
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On the top layer, there's the frosting and the sprinkles: top tier artists who shine bright like the diamonds Rihanna sang about on her smash hit 2012 single.
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In frisky cumbias and high-velocity polkas with very brief swerves into rock riffing or rapped vocals, the band sang about food, love, drinking and dancing — especially food.
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Fans rushed the stage to bring him gifts, and in some songs he reached across the footlights to give handshakes while he sang about feeling lonely and alienated.
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"My generation sang about an alternative Ulster," her friend Stephen Lusty said in another speech on Wednesday, referring to the Irish province in which Northern Ireland is situated.
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An active night-life scene means that some hotels (like the Memory Motel, which the Rolling Stones sang about in 1976) are better for drinking than for sleeping.
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Springsteen sang about many things, about fathers and factories, highways and rivers and, crucially for me, he came from a place almost as unloved as Luton: New Jersey.
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Gone is the Taylor who sang about magnanimously forgiving her enemies, or the one who bopped around shake-shake-shaking it off while the haters hate-hate-hated.
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Trapped in the monotony of suburban Connecticut, I felt a kinship with this motley group of hardcore dudes from Long Island, who sang about trashed friendships and soured love.
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On Monday, the "ME!" singer opened up in a radio interview with Zach Sang about needing to take some time off and getting back to a positive place again.
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She was even doing Mr. Trump's trademark gesticulations and facial expressions: pursing her lips, rolling her eyes and shrugging with disdain, as she sang about being rejected by women.
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Or when the gangsta rappers, and Oscar nominees, Three 6 Mafia, sang about pimps and hoes before the black-tie audience, hardly their usual crowd, and then, fantastically, won.
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During this Weekend Update sketch in 1993, Sandler sang about Hillary Clinton, the lifting of the ban on gays in the military and then-Vice President Al Gore's terrible dancing.
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That drew in fans -- and as fans tuned into their music and video clips, they found that BTS created elaborate stories with their music videos and sang about social issues.
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A gospel choir sang about salvation, a fitting choice for a candidate who is counting on this state's large black electorate to save his third try for the White House.
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Gabalier, 34, sang about Schwarzenegger's inspirational career — both as a bodybuilder and a film star — and received a little help from Schwarzenegger who wasn't afraid to rap his own verses.
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And ever since Minor Threat sang about having better things to do than snorting white shit up their noses in 1981, that's exactly what straight edge people have been doing.
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Sharon Jones, who sang about love troubles, hard times and a woman's strength as the unstoppable frontwoman for the R&B band the Dap-Kings, died Friday of pancreatic cancer.
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Co-writing all but two songs, Aguilera blossomed from an uncommonly gifted pop singer into a musically versatile and lyrically candid artist who sang about feminism, sex, and self-worth.
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A woman performed a Bollywood dance, a man sang about New York City, and the whole thing closed out with an incredible electric violin performance that brought the house down.
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Bieber isn't just a dodged bullet who set fires to Gomez's forest, as she sang about in the first two singles, but also an experience that affects her future relationships.
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Ever since Ke$ha sang about brushing her teeth with a bottle of Jack, Jack Daniel's has become inextricably linked to things we do when we wake up in the morning.
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The mourners listened to a succession of pastors tell them to trust in Jesus, and they stood silently as a man with a guitar sang about the perils of police work.
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You know, the pre-pop, pre-Kanye, pre-Hiddleswift country star who sang about Chevy trucks, Tim McGraw, dancing in the rain, and sneakin' out real late to slam on screen doors?
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Grande sang about Davidson, Miller and Alvarez (as well as Big Sean) in her song "Thank U, Next" — which has spent the past seven consecutive weeks on the top of the charts.
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The Messthetics backed him on Friday afternoon with leisurely vamps topped by echoey keyboard and guitar as he sang about a fallen angel and about trying to reach the doorknob to heaven.
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That today she could start reclaiming some of the confidence she once felt when she stood onstage at church and sang about forgiveness and redemption and You who make all things new.
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" Strong's performance started to lose its rhythm as she sang about anxiety: "Mueller, won't bring you us a sense of normalcy / Where everything doesn't feel so completely upside down and out of control?
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Her second, All American Made, doubled down on spotlighting injustice, as she sang about being rendered a 'second-class citizen" on "Pay Gap," and class struggles alongside Willie Nelson on "Learning to Lose.
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The mountain Marvin Gaye, Tammi Terrell, and later Diana Ross, sang about in "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" was NOT inspired by a mountain at all ... according to the legend who wrote it.
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At the same show, Marcia Belsky, who has written a musical version of "The Handmaid's Tale" set in 2028 Brooklyn, sang about how annoying it is when rich people get really into nature.
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Her voice was powerful and beautiful, her outfits were on point, choreography stellar, her heart was in it and she sang about love and inclusiveness, all in front of millions and millions of people.
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For as long as I can remember, I've been guilty of romanticizing brooding, unhealthy male behavior—the drinking, the doomed romances, the nodding acknowledgment of the problems of both—something Scott sang about constantly.
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They sang about teen angst and the social pressure to succeed within a grueling education system, and insisted on creating their own music and writing their own songs outside of the manufactured network environment.
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She sang about regretful leave-takings and the possibilities of tender reunions over undulating piano chords or unobtrusive guitar; there were echoes of Feist and Joni Mitchell, but she had her own melodic grace.
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She said she also received a confidential $100,000 settlement after Kelly released a song in which he sang about having sex with a woman who braided using a pattern for which Carter was known.
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The newfound maturity and serenity permeating throughout Good Nature makes it easy to forget that the unvarnished, raw, and sometimes ugly feelings Getz sang about on Peripheral Vision were from such a short time ago.
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She wore make-up, sang about love, and took up as much space as she damn-well pleased in that skate-park – a typically male-dominated setting where girls were monumentally disregarded, as I was.
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The Allentown I visited on a recent Sunday, for an Arena Football League game played by a team from a city 60 miles away was not like the one Billy Joel imagined and sang about.
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He breezily sang about the use of words like "and" and "but" on "Conjunction Junction," written by Mr. Dorough, and about how a bill becomes law on "I'm Just a Bill," written by Dave Frishberg.
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Perhaps it was due to the mundane subjects she sang about, or because she played garage-influenced rock with weird guitar solos, whatever the reason, Barnett side-stepped gender lines, and that was cool and exciting.
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In the style of an iconic Boyz II Men slow jam, first-time Saturday Nigth Live host Chance the Rapper alongside Kenan Thompson and Chris Redd, sang about the person missing from their lives: Barack Obama.
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In "Broken Clocks," she sang about a frustratingly iffy relationship, topping a slow-swaying vamp with jazzy, asymmetrical vocal lines that could dart nervously ahead, pivot suddenly, linger over a quivering tone and declaim a chorus.
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As she sang about love troubles, hard times and a woman's strength, she would race across the stage in high heels — and sooner or later kick them off — while shouting and shimmying in fringed, sequined dresses.
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But while carioca focused on the DJ, ostentação shifted the spotlight to the MC, and was popularized by MCs like Guimé, who sang about expensive shit and how awesome the lifestyle of the rich and famous is.
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She opened the show with a monologue, poking a bunch of fun at herself, and eventually looping it into a larger, jokey song where she sang about wanting to have her first adult scandal ala Justin Bieber.
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His music suddenly reached back to the Beatles, David Bowie, the Rolling Stones and T. Rex, featuring hand-played instruments rather than electronic sounds, while Styles sang about addiction, a violent world, fierce jealousy and heartbroken despair.
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He sang about religion, with references to Jesus Christ and Jewish traditions, as well as love and sex, political upheaval, regret and what he once called the search for "a kind of balance in the chaos of existence".
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They go through a series of misdirects, from an admittedly frustrated maintenance man to the guy running a music label for artists that are a cross between Jojo Siwa and that girl who sang about liking Chinese food.
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I grew up with stories of George Orwell (she said he was very brave), Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, André Breton and Wifredo Lam — all artists and writers — told amid songs she sang about anarchists and workers.
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Almost 23 years after Walmart banned a Sheryl Crow album from its stores after she sang about its gun sales, the singer has weighed in on the retailer's decision this week to stop selling some ammunition and weapons.
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Like Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and so many others in the age of protest, he sang about democracy, devastation, a future bleak as a blizzard and an unkind world, but the songs that welled up instinctively were about women.
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From her early days in country music, Lambert made a strong impression with the singles "Kerosene" and "Gunpowder & Lead," in which she defied the genre's current gender stereotypes and sang about taking violent revenge on men who deserved it.
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And inside that inner whiteness, there existed a deeper shade of white that knew things, such as how our good fortunes had come pretty easy, at least compared to the people we sang about in the songs we played.
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Most of the rappers Madlib admired when he was growing up sang about black male alienation and life inside or outside "the system"—but what if you didn't feel doomed by your blackness or your masculinity or your dreams?
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It begins on an E minor to G major motion—the "major lift" that another Canadian icon once sang about—but reaches further upwards and lands on a B minor, placing the listener in less uplifting minor-key territory.
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And while the late, great soul musician Charles Bradley largely sang about racism and his personal travails, his "Why Is It So Hard," from 2011, may be the single most emotionally powerful recent song about poverty and income inequality.
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Atop adventurous electronica from then-unknown producer William Orbit, Madonna sang about the birth of her first child, the isolation of her life as a globe-trotting superstar, and the sacrifices of fame that had come back to haunt her.
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You used to be -- if you got your heart broke, you could play Lionel Richie because he got his heart broken or he was thrown out and he wrote a song about it and he sang about it and you understood.
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On "Gorgeous," for example, she sang about stumbling home to her cats, and while her life in the public eye did take up room on the record, some tracks about her typical love-and-relationships subject matter did certainly crop up.
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In its raspier moments, her voice on Diary of Me curled like incense smoke as she sang about everything from the mushiness of early love, on "Marry Me", to bullying, on "Silly Girl," about a girl who targeted her in school.
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" They also acknowledged Bennington's emotional and addiction struggles, saying that "the demons who took you away from us were always part of the deal" and that "it was the way you sang about those demons that made everyone fall in love with you.
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Like Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and so many others in the age of protest, he sang about democracy, devastation, a future bleak as a blizzard and an unkind world in which, like a bird on the wire, he tried to be free.
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In a satirical opening number called "We Solved It", entertainers of color like John Legend, RuPaul, Tituss Burgess, and Ricky Martin — all of the women in the number were white — danced and sang about how TV had figured out the solution to inclusivity.
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For most of that album, Syd — the band's main songwriter — sang about romances with women, inflected by ambition, celebrity and digital communication; there was also a glimpse of a troubled outside world in "Penthouse Cloud," which addressed police shootings with pain and prayer.
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His voice was a grainy moan as he sang about woman troubles and hard luck; his guitar could drive dancers with boogie and shuffle beats or play leads that were lean and gnarled, gliding smoothly and then coiling into a dissonant sting.
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It's the latest in a long-running series of tribute concerts organized by Michael Dorf, with all proceeds benefiting music education (though presumably of a different kind than the "schooling" that Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant sang about on 28's "Whole Lotta Love").
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A 53 video for her single "Trouble in Paradise" showed her cavorting around in a rhinestone-encrusted romper from Patricia Field, flanked by a trio of drag queen backup singers, as she sang about how she wouldn't wind up as anyone's trophy wife.
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Three distinguished Mexican singers who have joined forces as Las Tres Grandes — Eugenia León, Tania Libertad and Guadalupe Pineda — sang about women's pride and determination in a tradition-rooted son jarocho "Mi Canto Viene del Sur" ("My Song Comes From the South").
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Had you told me that in the year 2018 myself and a room full of people would be clapping along while a white man wearing an argyle sweater (vest?) played the banjo and sang about his whiteness, I would have laughed in your face.
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There's a very good chance you never heard of Scott Hutchison until this week and what you heard was: Scott Hutchison was yet another "troubled musician" who sang about swimming into the North Sea and not coming back until he eventually actually did do that.
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She often sang about them as a shared "we," and while they knew they were a world away from glamour or renown, on their own terms they were heroes and gladiators; Lorde's music, overdubbing her own voice, cast them as ghostly chorales and majestic choirs.
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She sang about having a miscarriage in "Blue," and in "Rocket," she mentions how "comfortable" she is in her own skin while briefly throwing shots at "cyclical trends," a reference to her desire to break out of the music industry's conventional approach to, well, everything.
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I figured that if a mostly black art rock band who played a chaotic mashup of noise, funk, and electronic music and sang about interracial relationships and the end of the world could thrive in Williamsburg, then it was where my weird black-ass needed to be.
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I latched hard onto bands that, in retrospect, barely skimmed the surface of "real" emo but spoke to me nonetheless — bands like Dashboard Confessional, who were so sad and beautiful it hurt to listen to them, or Fall Out Boy, who sang about feeling angry and rejected.
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When Nina Simone released "Mississippi Goddam" in 1964, the Alabama she sang about was, specifically, Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church — the church that became a rallying point for the Civil Rights Movement, the church nearly destroyed by fifteen sticks of dynamite planted by four Ku Klux Klansmen.
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" Linkin Park released an emotional statement honoring their frontman Monday morning, writing, "the demons who took you away from us were always part of the deal … After all, it was the way you sang about those demons that made everyone fall in love with you in the first place.
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" The group also touches on the rocker's struggle with depression, acknowledging that "the demons who took you away from us were always part of the deal … After all, it was the way you sang about those demons that made everyone fall in love with you in the first place.
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She performed many of the best songs from the album here: "Sorry," during which her backup dancers extended two indignant middle fingers; "Don't Hurt Yourself," during which she was backed onscreen by unforgiving flames; "Daddy Lessons," where she sang about her pain as a sort of cross-generational inheritance.
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It's a Castaway-inspired trailer for the return of Logan Paul (which you're already watching) and then nine minutes of vlogging in the usual style: quieter rambling parts interspersed with louder, yelling parts—like a Pixies song, but if the Pixies exclusively sang about how great they were as a band.
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And when she sang about heartache on Can't Take Me Home, or wanting real love rather than a "man with the mean green" on "Most Girls," she made those early lyrics—some bordering on absurd, with the clarity of hindsight—feel profound, even when she'd only written half the songs.
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And when she sang about heartache on Can't Take Me Home, or wanting real love rather than a "man with the mean green" on "Most Girls," she made those early lyrics—some bordering on absurd, with the clarity of hindsight—feel profound, even when she'd only written half the songs.
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During "Flawless (Remix)," Beyoncé sat at the edge of the stage surrounded by her dancers, and sang about the 2014 episode in which her sister, Solange, assaulted Jay Z in an elevator, the event that was the first high-profile public rupture in the outwardly perfect Beyoncé-Jay Z union.
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In a revival of Franco Zeffirelli's classic staging at the State Opera here in October, the soprano Aida Garifullina knocked over a table, flirted with a soldier and tossed her cape at the state councilor Alcindoro as she sang about how people stop and stare at her beauty when she walks down the street.
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Although there are thematic overlaps with her music and side YouTube channel ('Lowlife' for example focuses on the corruption and temptations of the entertainment industry, while 'Money' is about the seduction of, well, money), her music videos are notably more in accord with mainstream pop (lest we forget that even Britney Spears sang about the loneliness of fame).
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Both accusations have some truth, but his albums encompass nearly the whole of 2003th-century New York music, from Tin Pan Alley to doo-wop and salsa, and Mr. Joel sang about alienation — suburban boredom, teenage apathy, the stupidity of the music business, mistrust of the media and fashion trends — well before punk rock elbowed its way in.
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In high school, we would spend some of our evenings at youth group, where we sang about Jesus, and others going to teen night at a Houston club, driving into the thicket of liquor stores and strip clubs a mile up on Westheimer, entering a dark room where the girls wore miniskirts and everyone sought amnesty in a different way.
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Or so says the opening number of the 70th Annual Primetime TV Awards, in which Kenan Thompson, Kristen Bell, Kate McKinnon, Ricky Martin, Sterling K. Brown, Titus Burgess, and John Legend sang about finally vanquishing two of the main problems plaguing Hollywood: Its (until very recently) lack of opportunities for actors of color and, as the #MeToo and Time's Up movements illuminated, its ubiquitous sexual harassment.
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Then add Mr Smith's half-spoken lyrics, barely audible above the noise: See the street-litter twisting in the windCrisp bags turningSee B&H cartons laughing in the windRoad-litter turning[...] I crave sex behind steel cabinetsIt's for what I'm yearningAnd there's a dim chance it's what I'm gonna get In the 1980s, as pop groups bought Yamaha keyboards and sang about their lives by the swimming pool, The Fall were being described as the last angry band left in England.
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On "Depreston," a song from "Sometimes I Sit and Think and Sometimes I Just Sit" (it recounts a bout of house-hunting with her longtime partner, the musician Jen Cloher), Barnett sang about the spiritual and practical perils of being on the front lines of gentrification: We don't have to be around all these coffee shops Now we've got that percolator Never made a latte greater I'm saving twenty-three dollars a week The verse works because it's sharply observed and acutely familiar.
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" She then sang about how loving someone fills all the air in the room, and is sometimes a cloud that blocks clear vision (and thinking): Oh, my stupid mindIts cartographer finds every crook in your smileEvery dot on your kneeWhich I've counted a couple hundred timesAs you laid sleeping and I laid terrified When she was done, and silence in the room had been restored, the band played "Sooner," a rousing thrasher of a song that continued the theme, with Ms. Lotz proudly lamenting, "Count me in/ I'll bow down and sow a garden/ of backbones I never had.
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Following a hip-hop twist on her show's theme song — performed live by Saweetie — Bee monologued about Jared Kushner's hollow bird bones and former Attorney General Jeff Sessions' fixation on Civil War generals; sang about the erotic power of a good piece of investigative journalism ("I wanna be a notch on the Washington Post"); sang again about the mealy-mouthed habit the mainstream media has of describing racist behavior in euphemistic terms (a riff on My Fair Lady's "The Rain in Spain"); shouted-out her dad in the crowd; excoriated Sanders some more ("Her looks are the best thing about her … but on the inside it's as hideous as a pinworm in an anus," a reference to a controversial WHCD joke last year about Sanders' eye-liner); and addressed President Trump directly, in case he happened to be watching.
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