Patsy Cline shouldn’t have taken her own advice: “I Fall to Pieces”.
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.)
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.
Ian Anderson never got fat, exactly, but he did gain weight.
Jon Denver - Rocky Mountain (not) High (er than he thought it was going to be).
We also would’ve accepted “Leaving On A Jet Plane.”
This confuses me, given that he crashed into Monterey Bay.
More an example of advice he shouldn’t have taken - see also “Fly Away”.
How about “I Want to Live”?
Well, if he’d take a jet plane he would likely not have died that day.
mmm
Are you saying he should have by now?..
His listeners should not take his advice in “Follow Me”.
But in “In Bloom,” he specifically says that “he likes to shoot his gun.”
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.