Red Mosquito

surfndestroy wrote:

verb_to_trust wrote:Ryan blocked me from his fb page for saying Warrant's 80s smash hit Cherry Pie was sexist. I think it's safe to say he's into a lot of bad music and probably doesn't regard country as anything other than a means to an end for him.

I'm not sure how anyone can say a tongue in cheek song is sexist. Looking at the lyrics, where is the sexism? It doesn't put down women in any way.

She's my cherry pie
Cool drink of water such a sweet surprise
Tastes so good makes a grown man cry
Sweet Cherry Pie
Swingin' on the front porch
Swingin' on the lawn
Swingin' where we want
'Cause there ain't nobody home
Swingin' to the left
And swingin' to the right
If I think about baseball
I'll swing all night yea
Swingin' in the living room
Swingin' in the kitchen
Most folks don't 'cause
They're too busy bitchin'
Swingin' in there 'cause
She wanted me to feed her
So I mixed up the batter
And she licked the beater
I scream you scream
We all scream for her
Don't even try 'cause
You can't ignore her
She's my cherry pie
Cool drink of water
Such a sweet surprise
Tastes so good
Make a grown man cry
Sweet cherry pie oh yea

Strat wrote:what terrible lyrics

surfndestroy wrote:

Strat wrote:what terrible lyrics

Definitely juvenile but not sexist. Nothing demeaning is said about women. In fact, the singer puts himself down as having to think about baseball to last longer. Pretty sex positive overall. Dumb and juvenile though.

For the last year, fans wanting fresh material from Ryan Adams have had to settle for his Taylor Swift covers album. But fear not, sad-folk: Your singer-songwriter king will soon return with legitimately new material and it’s dropping on November 4th.

According to Entertainment Weekly, Adams whittled down his still-unnamed project from a batch of “literally 80” songs to a much-more-manageable 11. Fans can probably expect some of the slickness of TSwift productions to rub off on this project, as all the names he cited as influences on the upcoming album are known for big, polished tunes.

Adams said that ELO and Bachman-Turner Overdrive heavily influenced the guitar sound on the new record. “I was like, ‘Wow! I understand the multicolored guitar tone moments now,” he said. “You can layer stuff. I really just learned a lot.”

As for his more general inspirations, Adams cited AC/DC and ’80s Springsteen as the catalyst of this album. “When I run, I listen to [an iPod] Nano that I have. I put all the AC/DC records on from back to front, or I’ll listen to the best of stuff from the ’80s: Springsteen, or [Nick] Hornsby, and I’ll listen to what is going on there,” he said. “I was listening to AC/DC’s Fly on the Wall and that’s when I realized what I had to do for the record.”

The singer-songwriter went on to say that the record will ask some “cool, big questions” that may never get answered. “I think the challenge for me — the Everest peak, for me — is to tell this story in 11 songs, to tell this part of my life in 11 songs. How do I make a real distinct record where anybody listens to it and says, ‘That’s the truth from beginning to end.’ So it’s like exercise. It sucks in the beginning. But then you get into it.”

evenslow wrote:

For the last year, fans wanting fresh material from Ryan Adams have had to settle for his Taylor Swift covers album. But fear not, sad-folk: Your singer-songwriter king will soon return with legitimately new material and it’s dropping on November 4th.

According to Entertainment Weekly, Adams whittled down his still-unnamed project from a batch of “literally 80” songs to a much-more-manageable 11. Fans can probably expect some of the slickness of TSwift productions to rub off on this project, as all the names he cited as influences on the upcoming album are known for big, polished tunes.

Adams said that ELO and Bachman-Turner Overdrive heavily influenced the guitar sound on the new record. “I was like, ‘Wow! I understand the multicolored guitar tone moments now,” he said. “You can layer stuff. I really just learned a lot.”

As for his more general inspirations, Adams cited AC/DC and ’80s Springsteen as the catalyst of this album. “When I run, I listen to [an iPod] Nano that I have. I put all the AC/DC records on from back to front, or I’ll listen to the best of stuff from the ’80s: Springsteen, or [Nick] Hornsby, and I’ll listen to what is going on there,” he said. “I was listening to AC/DC’s Fly on the Wall and that’s when I realized what I had to do for the record.”

The singer-songwriter went on to say that the record will ask some “cool, big questions” that may never get answered. “I think the challenge for me — the Everest peak, for me — is to tell this story in 11 songs, to tell this part of my life in 11 songs. How do I make a real distinct record where anybody listens to it and says, ‘That’s the truth from beginning to end.’ So it’s like exercise. It sucks in the beginning. But then you get into it.”

He had me at "ELO."

verb_to_trust wrote:New song sucks. The more Ryan releases shitty80s sounding trash the more obvious it becomes that his strong early output was all just an act. This is the real Ryan Adams, and he's basically Kenny Loggins.