IIRC the Americans were fully aware of the derisive nature of the song but as they started winning the battles and eventually the war they reclaimed it in a middle finger, “guess what, we won anyway” fashion.
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Yeah, that's the part that always gets left off when this comes up. People say it like Americans were too dumb to realize they were getting mocked, but the reality is more like "Let's go Brandon" becoming "Dark Brandon."
They forgot to mention he came up on a pony rather than a real horse.
Merican bitch ride up in his civic
Trynna act so slick like he wit it
Pen a G on his belt call it Gucci
Gonna wreck his self fo som hoochie
It's not good I know.
If this isn't good I want to be bad
Who is really the dumb one, the one who draws a G on their belt or the one who pays a ridiculous amount of money for it?
Both I think
This is the sort of centrist take I can respect.
Shakespeare been real quiet since this dropped
A couple hundred years before that too, though, if memory serves.
Someone better go wake him up, bro overslept a bit
He takes longer than George R. R. Martin to write anything new.
Yeah, but we're just not incentivizing him enough, right? If we just give his publishers more help enforcing their rights on the English language, he'll write some more, for sure
piccolo solo
"Dodge!"
"Doodle "is likely also the origin of the word "dude" so if you ever want to call the dudes by their full name you could say "sup yankee doodles"
Doing this when I get home, just to prove a point.