Shots In The Dark
Monday, October 22, 2007
  Monday Morning Song

In these dark days of Red Sox fortune, we must turn to goth for solace.


 
Comments:
I feel like putting on some eye makeup, getting my long black coat out of the closet and oiling up the old sawed-off!
 
Okay, I was with you until the last part....huh?
 
Richard, have you been asleep ever since the 80s? Are you unaware of the links (alleged and otherwise) between Goth culture and the child psychos who barge into their schools to deliver some payback to the kids who've been bullying them? Next you'll be saying you don't get it if your Monday Morning Song is Billy Idol's "White Wedding" and someone alludes to suicide.
 
Anon 2:13 is an angry person. So sad. A moment of silence, please. Everyone send him some loving thoughts. (kissy)
 
White Wedding alludes to suicide?
 
No, it doesn't. White Wedding is about Billy Idol's sister's marriage to a guy he couldn't stand. There's also a little cocaine reference, too.
 
Hopefully no one need explain "Dancing with Myself" (one of the best videos ever, in my opinion).
 
Hey 5:41 - The original rumour was that the song was about his sister's wedding to a BLACK man, but that's apocryphal too...The song has three elements that require the suicide interpretation: (1) the repeated, rather violent phrase "shot gun" set in a song which is brimming with menace, (2) the suggestion that its a nice day to "start again" (which hardly makes sense in a wedding context) and (3) the stanza complaining that there's nothing fair, nothing safe, nothing sure, nothing pure, nothing left in this world.

Sure, you can read this as the average brother mad at his sister for getting pregnant and then married off quick, but that song would have been called ""Shotgun Wedding".

Here's the lyrics - decide for yourselves:

Hey little sister what have you done
Hey little sister who's the only one
Hey little sister who's your superman
Hey little sister who's the one you want
Hey little sister shot gun!

It's a nice day to start again
It's a nice day for a white wedding
It's a nice day to start again

Hey little sister what have you done
Hey little sister who's the only one
I've been away for so long (so long)
I've been away for so long (so long)
I let you go for so long

It's a nice day to start again (come on)
It's a nice day for a white wedding
It's a nice day to start again

(Pick it up)
Take me back home
There is nothin' fair in this world
There is nothin' safe in this world
And there is nothin' sure in this world
And there is nothin' pure in this world
Look for something left in this world
Start again
Come on

It's a nice day for a white wedding
It's a nice day to start again
It's a nice day for a white wedding
It's a nice day to start again
 
Who knew that Billy Idol lent himself to such interpretation?
 
You didn't know that he's a respected amateur Nietzche scholar did you!
 
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