Yeah, Jack Sarang is right. It’s not that bad a metaphor, but it’s been used a million times before. Faithless even have a song called God Is A DJ.
I’d prefer Christina or someone for my crappy pop-chick thrills. At least then there’s no pretention of credibility. Pink’s made a million times worse because of all the idiots who think she’s something more than your average pop star, just because she’s written songs about how she never did laundry in high school.
Here you reference both HORSE WITH NO NAME and a song sung by A Man Called Horse L
As dorky as the lyrics to MacArthur Park are, HE MADE IT SO DAMN COOL!!!
Hoss. Waylon Jennings was a Man Called Hoss.
The Beatles song in question is It’s All Too Much, not All Together Now. For what it’s worth, both songs are pretty overtly intended for children. IMO the Yellow Submarine soundtrack (the source of both tunes) is hardly a true Beatles album.
You want banal pop metaphors? How about Tom Cochrane?
Life is a highway
I want to ride it all night long
If you’re going my way
I want to drive it all night long
hehehe good one 
sjc
mums the word from now on. everythings just hunky dory with lil ole me.
cheers
While we’re on America’s (the band’s) lyrics … what the heck is the tropic of sir Galahad?
On the subject of lyrical cliches, John Hiatt is a great songwriter, but he dips a little too often into the “roads, rivers, trains, and rainy weather” well, I think.
And Pink rocks. When I first got the new album, the “life is a dancefloor” simile struck me the same way at first, but the song kicks so much ass I decided to let it go.
Homebrew, I must pause for a second here to applaud the startlingly accurate memory of FriarTed. Holy cow, Your Brothership, how in the hell did you ever remember that movie? I thought I was the only other person on the planet who saw it! (I even saw it in the theater, not on TV or nothing. And when it first came out. A bajillion years ago. My parents took me and my brother and sister and I recall that we weren’t that old. My parents had odd taste in movies…)
Anyway, Homebrew, FriarTed is precisely correct. Richard Harris, who did the first mega-mass-market version of “MacArthur Park”, starred in this oddball Western called “A Man Called Horse”. Strange movie. Downright S&M in parts. I have the feeling Mel Gibson watched it a lot when he was making “Braveheart”.
(For what it’s worth, I think Pink is amazing. I think Shakira is amazing. I think Cristina is a sista with a voice who has the capacity to get vulnerable in front of a crowd of millions, and I admire her pluck. I think Britney was very fortunate to get the song “…Baby One More Time”, and I don’t believe it will ever happen again. I think Madonna has had spectacular success with a relatively modest musical talent, and it frustrates me that she seems to regress with every new performance.)
Oh, and I think that Whitney Houston will never get the concept of “pianissimo”, even though I really wish she would give it some serious thought.