The Temptation’s Cloud Nine.
I think it isn’t so much a pro-drug song as an anti-fucked-up ghetto life song. It’s so bad growing up there and living there that you may as well take drugs.
Afroman’s Because I Got High.
I can’t believe how many people think this is an anti-pot song. Afroman is obviously being sarcastic about all the bad things that happened to him because he was high. At least it’s obvious to me.
White Rabbit.
I think it’s supposed to be pro drug but, damn, that song scares the crap out of me. Why would anyone want to be so not in control of themselves?
I think the members of Jefferson Airplane probably thought that was great, but yeah, it kind of freaks me out too. It is at least anti-pharmaceutical drugs, since “the ones that Mother gives you / don’t do anything at all.” In any event, I don’t think I’ll be asking Alice anytime soon.
I’m not familiar with song #2, but as far as #1 and #3 go, I don’t consider them either pro- or anti-drug. More of an observation kind of thing that allows the listener to decide whether its a good thing or a bad thing.
Just joshin’. Because I Got High is a Hip Hop/Urban song in which Afroman laments on how weed made him fail school, lose his job, lose his wife and kids, lose the use of his legs. . . I think it’s funny.
It’s been a while since I read Otis Williams book about the Temptations, so I could be wrong, but IIRC, songwriter Norman Whitfield claims “Cloud Nine” isn’t about drugs at all.:dubious:
I don’t recall what he claims it is about, however.