# What singers should have taken their own song's advice? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [March 26, 2021, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-singers-should-have-taken-their-own-songs-advice/938779 "2021-03-26T14:41:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2021, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-singers-should-have-taken-their-own-songs-advice/938779/21 "2021-03-28T05:06:56Z")
Patsy Cline shouldn’t have taken her own advice: “I Fall to Pieces”. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2021, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-singers-should-have-taken-their-own-songs-advice/938779/22 "2021-03-30T13:39:21Z")
Jermaine Stewart, singer of “We Don’t Have to Take Our Clothes Off,” died of AIDS-related complications. (Admittedly, maybe he caught HIV from IV drug use or something like that rather than by disregarding his own advice.) ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2021, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-singers-should-have-taken-their-own-songs-advice/938779/23 "2021-03-30T17:59:23Z")
Tupac ‘we gotta make a change… let’s change the way we treat each other’ then he got shot for beating up someone at a hotel. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2021, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-singers-should-have-taken-their-own-songs-advice/938779/24 "2021-03-30T18:27:08Z")
Ian Anderson never got fat, exactly, but he did gain weight. ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2021, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-singers-should-have-taken-their-own-songs-advice/938779/25 "2021-03-31T12:52:28Z")
Jon Denver - Rocky Mountain (not) High (er than he thought it was going to be). ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2021, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-singers-should-have-taken-their-own-songs-advice/938779/26 "2021-04-01T02:58:40Z")
We also would’ve accepted “Leaving On A Jet Plane.” ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2021, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-singers-should-have-taken-their-own-songs-advice/938779/27 "2021-04-01T09:01:17Z")
> [@Smid](#): > > Jon Denver - Rocky Mountain (not) High (er than he thought it was going to be). This confuses me, given that he crashed into Monterey Bay. > [@Johnny\_Q](#): > > We also would’ve accepted “Leaving On A Jet Plane.” More an example of advice he _shouldn’t_ have taken - see also “Fly Away”. How about “[I Want to Live](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Want_to_Live_(John_Denver_song))”? ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2021, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-singers-should-have-taken-their-own-songs-advice/938779/28 "2021-04-01T09:59:21Z")
Well, if he’d take a jet plane he would likely not have died that day. mmm ---
**Author:** ![LLCoolL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llcooll/32/3596_2.png) [@LLCoolL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LLCoolL)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2021, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-singers-should-have-taken-their-own-songs-advice/938779/29 "2021-04-01T11:47:24Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > Pete Townshend wrote “hope I die before I get old” and then didn’t. Are you saying he _should_ have by now?.. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-singers-should-have-taken-their-own-songs-advice/938779/30 "2021-04-02T01:12:02Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > > [@Smid](#): > > > > Jon Denver - Rocky Mountain (not) High (er than he thought it was going to be). > > This confuses me, given that he crashed into Monterey Bay. > > > [@Johnny\_Q](#): > > > > We also would’ve accepted “Leaving On A Jet Plane.” > > More an example of advice he _shouldn’t_ have taken - see also “Fly Away”. > > How about “[I Want to Live](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Want_to_Live_(John_Denver_song))”? His listeners should not take his advice in “[Follow Me](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzykTaH5ZwM)”. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2021, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-singers-should-have-taken-their-own-songs-advice/938779/31 "2021-04-03T03:08:53Z")
But in “In Bloom,” he specifically says that “he likes to shoot his gun.” ---
**Author:** ![PookahMacPhellimey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pookahmacphellimey/32/3175_2.png) [@PookahMacPhellimey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PookahMacPhellimey)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2021, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-singers-should-have-taken-their-own-songs-advice/938779/32 "2021-04-03T10:36:48Z")
Yes, though that song, I think, was taking a swipe at gun-toting right-wing types who listen to Nirvana music as “pretty songs” without understanding them. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-singers-should-have-taken-their-own-songs-advice/938779.md?page=1)