glups@piefed.social to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoTIL This Land is Your Land was written in response to God Bless Americaen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square61fedilinkarrow-up1601arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up1596arrow-down1external-linkTIL This Land is Your Land was written in response to God Bless Americaen.wikipedia.orgglups@piefed.social to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square61fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarestickyprimer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2 days agoSo when he heard “this land was made for you and me,” he didn’t hear that it belongs to everybody. He heard: this is OUR country. Damn that changes everything. I never even imagined the song that way.
minus-squareJusticeForPorygon@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoFor someone who based his entire career around music I noticed on multiple occasions that he was either willfully ignorant or just really bad at judging what a song is about
So when he heard “this land was made for you and me,” he didn’t hear that it belongs to everybody. He heard: this is OUR country.
Damn that changes everything. I never even imagined the song that way.
For someone who based his entire career around music I noticed on multiple occasions that he was either willfully ignorant or just really bad at judging what a song is about