Reminds me of when Bobby Newport stole Knope's heartwarming tale of support in the face of failure, but changed it and said "...And I won!"
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the moral of the story was don't trust celery man
Says the person with the Superman profile pic.
I think the underlying realization for The Devil Went Down to Georgia is more that Americans will listen to good music even if they don't agree with the lyrics.
The same goes for Imagine by John Lennon, for example.
I love lyrics but i've found that most people I talk to about lyrics have no idea or don't pay attention
Yup this is my experience as well, it makes me sad honestly.
Imagine regularly gets changed to exclude the most 'objectionable' lines.
I loved Cee-Lo until his cover of it at [some event I forgot]. He changed "and no religion" to "and all religions" which...just totally butchers the meaning of the song. It's about a world where people are good to each other just because
I'm not an angry atheist but that really, really bugged me. Really spitting on his grave.
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It's a cautionary tale of the Devil's hubris. 😌
I heard this song playing in a restaurant at lunch today then I come home to find this. Freakin' weird.
We've been trying to send you hidden messages all day.
That uniquely "American" trait is just called optimism by people who don't fixate on a mythical monoculture.
This is not optimism. It's more irreverence. Which is honestly something we need more of these days. Everyone's so goddamn serious.
But Americans are, like, really optimistic.
Most Americans haven't read Candide these days. It used to be much more popular
We are Americans! Arrogance is our life’s blood, ambition is our food and drink, but most of all, hubris is the air we breathe!
https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Quintessons_(Transformers)
I was just going to throw the quote away, but now it's getting to me. Why does the idea of Americans as Quintessons work so well? They're ruled by capricious five-faced nutters, and their five faces are known as "death, wrath, laughter, bitterness, and doubt". The only thing we haven't got going for us is superintelligence, but in fairness Quintessons have acted pretty stupid sometimes.
Perhaps the devil who went down to Georgia was Johnny all along .... and in the end he got the soul he wanted to take.