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The song is a parody sung in the style of Bob Dylan, and all of the lyrics are palindromes as is the title. [2] [3] [4] For example, the song's first line is "I, man, am regal—a German am I", which reads the same when reversed. [5] [6] [7] The song did not chart at the time of its release, but later became the subject of critical and ...
For instance, Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A." (1984) listed in Rolling Stone's "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" and RIAA's Songs of the Century was written as a satire yet canonized as a "patriotic rock anthem," a designation that ignores the message "how far political leaders had strayed from the values the country was founded on ...
"Little Boxes" is a song written and composed by Malvina Reynolds in 1962. The song was first released by her friend, Pete Seeger, in 1963, and became his only charting single in January 1964. The song is a social satire [1] [2] [3] about the development of suburbia and associated conformist middle-class attitudes.
The programme opened with a song ("That was the week that was, It's over, let it go ...") sung by Millicent Martin, backed by the resident Dave Lee house band, including guitarist Cedric West. The opening song featured new lyrics each week referring to the news of the week just gone. Lance Percival sang a topical calypso each week.
The character of Major-General Stanley was widely taken to be a caricature of the popular general Sir Garnet Wolseley.The biographer Michael Ainger, however, doubts that Gilbert intended a caricature of Wolseley, identifying instead the older General Henry Turner, an uncle of Gilbert's wife whom Gilbert disliked, as a more likely inspiration for the satire.
Elfman would reiterate this view in 2014, claiming that the song was an "in-your-face facetious jab." [2] [3] Elfman has occasionally offered other explanations; in a 1985 concert he jokingly suggested that the song was about how his girlfriend was so "very, very little" that "she fits in the palm of [his] hand." [4] [better source needed]
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The song is a satire of televangelism, released in a period when several televangelists such as Jimmy Swaggart, Robert Tilton and Jim Bakker were under investigation for promising financial success to their listeners, provided they sent money to them. The song reached No. 10 in Canada, No. 20 in the United Kingdom and No. 23 in the United States.