Today I drove to Greenville SC for a continuing ed training. How long does it take to get to Greenville from where we live? Exactly enough time to listen to the Green Day CD American Idiot two and a half times. The first half includes the song "Dearly Beloved," which I'm sure I have noticed before contains the line, "oh therapy/can you please fill the void?/am I retarded or am I just overjoyed?" so I got to hear that one 3 times. Perhaps I have always sort of actively ignored it, but I'm a bit touchy after the church thing yesterday. Eh. Yuck.
Oh, and: http://www.r-word.org/
Giving the band the benefit of the doubt, I tried reviewing all the lyrics to see if there is possibly an appropriate context. But it's a concept album, so who has time to try to sort that out, and since when is a Green Day song about anything, really?
Why did I force myself to listen to it 3 times? The drive was stressful (lots of turns and road-numbers-not-names) and I have a really silly CD player in my car that requires this extra step to take anything out, and I was already managing a cup of coffee in addition to Mapquest directions, and it was dark (6:00 a.m.) Etc., etc.
So I listened to Beck's Guero on the way back. I think that one's clear; even when he slips into Spanish I happen to know the Spanish word is retraso, FYI.
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