djjd62 wrote:boomerang wrote:Can you think of any other song that mentions a singer of another song or references another song or was written in response to another song in the same way?
Range Life
Pavement
out on tour with the smashing pumpkins
nature kids, they don't have no function
i don't understand what they mean
and i could really give a f**k.
the stone temple pilots,
they're elegant bachelors
they're foxy to me are they foxy to you?
i will agree they deserve absolutely nothing
nothing more than me
dreamin' dream dream dream....
Hey, this has a north-south angle, too. Pavement was a northern CA band, sang a lot about southern CA (they didn't like it). And here they are singing again about a southern CA band (the Pilots) and the southern CA scene again.
Which is obiously a hyper-hip reference to the SWA thing.
And, by the way, Skynyrd was THE emblem of the racist reactionary redneck contingent in my part-racist, part-reactionary, part-redneck norCA town and I've gotta say I've got kind of a conditioned, visceral, negative response to their music as a result of it.
