{"id":1615,"date":"2008-12-08T15:59:21","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T15:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1615"},"modified":"2008-12-08T15:59:21","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T15:59:21","slug":"its_all_about_well_you_know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2008\/12\/08\/its_all_about_well_you_know\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s All About… Well, You Know…"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few excerpts from a particularly astute piece<\/a> at the ever-amusing McSweeny’s<\/a> called “Fifty Years of Popular Songs Condensed into Single Sentences”:<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

The Beatles, “I Want to Hold Your Hand”
\nI want to do it with you.
\n– – – –
\nMarvin Gaye, “Let’s Get It On”
\nI want to do it with you.
\n– – – –
\nLed Zeppelin, “Whole Lotta Love”
\nI want to do it with you.
\n– – – –
\nJames Blunt, “You’re Beautiful”
\nI want to do it with you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You get the idea. But just about the time you start thinking everything<\/i> means the same thing, some nuance starts to creep in:<\/p>\n

Elvis Presley, “Hound Dog”
\nYou’re doing it with everyone.
\n– – – –
\nFrank Sinatra, “Strangers in the Night”
\nI’m drunk and I want to do it with you.
\n– – – –
\nThe White Stripes, “My Doorbell”
\nUsing metaphor, I want to do it with you.
\n– – – –
\nLittle Richard, “Good Golly Miss Molly”
\nI’m doing it with Miss Molly, and she’s totally into it.
\n– – – –
\nDuran Duran, “Rio”
\nI’d love to do that chick dancing on the sand.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And my personal favorite, because of the cynical, heartbroken, inescapable quality of it:<\/p>\n

Carly Simon, “You’re So Vain”
\nWe used to do it, but then you did it with someone else, and now I’m not going to do it with you, although I wish we were still doing it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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