AProudLefty (07-04-2022)
The pop music industry often has a strong educational influence on kids even though its songs are rarely included in the official curriculum of public schools. (And I'm not talking about the "cookie-cutter" shit that bird-brains like Taylor Swift and Justin Beiber et al. dish up).
This song by the English band "Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark" sold over 5 million singles world wide.
It's about the flight of the American B-52 bomber named "Enola Gay" that dropped the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1945. while Japan and America were still at war.
But the song only tells the American side of the story, so it must be racist, bigoted, Xenophobic, etc; Right ?
Dachshund
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Last edited by Dachshund; 07-05-2022 at 12:44 AM.
First off, the song was pure Euro fluff garbage of it's time .... it only sold big numbers in Europe, of which Americans never heard of and really don't give a damn about, being that we are the folk that gave the world soul & rock & roll.....and if it was the B-side of a more successful song, it was counted as a solo success...an old marketing ploy.
The song is a lightly cynical & admonishing about Hiroshima, not an endorsement or approving about the action....if one has the historical gravitas and musical savvy to catch the lyrics. So I would expect a 3rd rate neo-nazi/David Duke wanna be like yourself to incorrectly assert the notion that you do. Carry on, my sheet wearing bumpkin.
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
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