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Nick Spitzer, host of the radio program American Routes, said "'American Blood' could be the song that legitimizes critiquing America while loving the country."About the song's meaning, Allmusic notes that "People end up endlessly disappointed and frustrated when encountering the paradox of who their nation says they are and what the nation is in and of itself". [2]
[16] [17] Black's mother, Georgina Kelly, paid ARK Music $4,000 for a song and accompanying video that included a choice of two pre-written songs "Super Woman" and "Friday". According to Kelly, the payment covered one half or less of the production costs of the music video, and Black's family could have paid nothing in exchange for giving up ...
"John Brown" is an anti-war song. [6] The lyrics are influenced by "Mrs. McGrath", [1] which relates how a young Irish soldier is maimed after fighting in the British Army against Napoleon's forces, and is met by his mother who asks how he was injured. [2] [7] In Dylan's song, a soldier's mother expresses her pride at him going off to war. [7]
A song in Newcastle-upon-Tyne marking the 1821 coronation of George IV specifies its tune as "Arthur McBride". [10] "The Bold Tenant Farmer" has a similar tune which is sometimes used. [11] [12] Thomas Ainge Devyr (1805–1887), an Irish Chartist who emigrated to America in 1840, in his 1882 memoir recalled the song from his youth in County ...
Bob Dylan wrote "Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues", a protest song and talking blues song, in 1962. [1] [2] The song was inspired by an incident where George Lincoln Rockwell, the founder of the American Nazi Party and an anti-communist, arrived in a Nazi uniform outside a theater showing Exodus (1960), a film about the founding of Israel. [3]
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"I'm Your Angel" is a duet by Celine Dion and R. Kelly from Dion's These Are Special Times album and Kelly's R. album. It was released on 13 October 1998. The song was written and produced by R. Kelly. The single was very successful, reaching number one in the United States and was certified platinum by the RIAA.
It is thus not an anti-war song in a conventional sense. The line "I got God on my side" might be a reference to Bob Dylan's classic anti-war song "With God on Our Side". Springsteen originally soundchecked the song with the E Street Band during The Rising Tour on April 11, 2003, at Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. [1]