“Uptown Girl” by Billy Joel is a perfect example. “Rich Girl” by Gwen Stefani is another. Can you think of any other examples?
At least half the output of John Denver.
“Thank God I’m a Country Boy” to name just one.
I figured there’d be a lot of country songs, and probably a lot of rap songs as well.
I’d say “Allentown” is an even better example.
And pretty much everything Bruce Springsteen’s written.
“Trailers for sale or rent” forget singer
Lots by Jimmy Buffet
At least 50% of all country songs.
Roger Miller.
The singer of the song is not necessarily the narrator of the song, otherwise you’d have to believe that “The City of New Orleans” implied that Arlo Guthrie was a train.
IME, rap does exactly the reverse.
Oh sure, bring logic into the discussion, why doncha?
Beatles- Mother Nature’s Son
Flight of the Conchords- Inner City Pressure (They’re reasonably well off, anyway)
It’s hard out here for a pimp…
You’re exaggerating. I’d estimate that less than 40% of country songs are Roger Miller.
Sheryl Crow’s Soak up the sun talks about how she (admittedly, the narrator as opposed to Ms. Crow herself) can’t afford gas or digital and how she has a crummy job that doesn’t pay well.
The first song that popped into my head was Poison’s “Nothin’ But A Good Time.”
All of Johnny Cash’s later works.
I dunno - “Uptown Girl” is more about social class than it is about money. Joel may have been rich, but he was still a Jewish kid from Levittown, Long Island; Brinkley, OTOH, was an old-money WASP princess.
Some singers are always rich man,
even before they get paid.
and sometimes the best ones never get PAAAID!!!
well there is hackensack. don’t you think he tried to appeal to the working class?
q does not have an a because sucessful poeple (singer, lawyers, doormen, etc) are ALREADY on the path.
AND GET READY TO DAMN THE MAN HIP-HOP STYLE! GET READY!
Rap is the poetry of the ghetto. Most rappers did start out poor, then became filthy rich. At which point sometimes they rap about how filthy rich they are, and sometimes they rap about how ghetto they once were, but it’s not always clear they are talking about the past and it seems like they are acting as if they are still “ghetto”. On the other hand, there are a lot of wannabe rappers who don’t have money but rap as if they did, which never ceases to amuse me.
only post that made sense going up from the bottom.
Michael Jackson’s They Don’t Care About Us – sorry, Michael, when you sing ‘us’, that doesn’t really mean ‘poor black ghetto kids’.
if any blues player,
black musicians that created american
if any blues player
I would just repeat the above lines like 99 or 100 times,
and call it techno
which leads to an idea
all I can think of is Kurt Cobain definitely did what thread suggests.