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PLEASE ALLOW MY DAUGHTER TO BUY CHRISTINA AGUILERA'S HIT SINGLE "GENIE IN A BOTTLE." AFTER CLOSE TEXTUAL ANALYSIS, I'VE CONCLUDED THAT THE LYRIC "RUB ME THE RIGHT WAY" IS NOT CHARMLESS INNUENDO, BUT RATHER THAT IT DESCRIBES THE MOST COMMON METHOD FOR RELEASING GENIES FROM BOTTLES...
...scary too--just think back to John Kruk's reaction when meeting Randy Johnson at the All-Star Game--it is simply a game where a normal guy can get up there, on more than any given Sunday, and have a chance against the league's best. The lyric "Put me in coach/ I'm ready to play today" is about baseball for a reason...
...charitable description of Hazel's ignorance is ''dramatic irony''; a blunter critic would just call it a melodramatic contrivance. There is evidence of research into both the history and psychology of memory (she retells the story of Simonides, the Greek lyric poet who invented the art of memory), but in the end the book says little about memory, except that we can on occasion have a love-hate relation with our own sense of the past. At one point Jonathan wonders whether it might have been better if both he and Hazel had lost memory. Livesey has rightly called into...
When Rosemary Clooney first heard Come On-a My House, she was underwhelmed. "I thought the lyric ranged from incoherent to just plain silly," she recalls in her engaging memoir Girl Singer: An Autobiography (Doubleday), written with Joan Barthel. But Clooney soon changed her mind when the playful song catapulted her to stardom. "I'd gone from being just another girl singer to a full-page photo in LIFE, from 'Rosemary who?' to a household word," she marvels...
...middle of the 19th century, Ralph Waldo Emerson registered a lyric complaint about the oppressive force of material goods: "Web to weave and corn to grind; Things are in the saddle and ride mankind...