onefinemess | February 20, 2009
This will be somewhat reminiscent of an earlier post I did on linguistic applications in contemporary songcraft…O.O OK I mean reading way too much into song lyrics. So I decided to make it into a semi-regular feature type.
Jen was playing this for some reason this morning (something to do with Abba), and it hit me: [...]
Category: Music, reading too much into lyrics, video |
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Tags: ladyboys, linguistics, One Night in Bangkok
onefinemess | August 28, 2008
I realized there is an alternate interpretation to Hootie and the Blowfish’s great anthem to dopey 90s rock-pop “Only Wanna Be With You.”
My Linguistics is so rusty I can’t recall the proper way to present the semantics, but basically it’s the other usage of only.
Reading 1: (The one I’ve been operating under for the last [...]
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Tags: hootie
