The refrain of “Tom Traubert’s Blues”, “waltzing Matilda”, references an experience that its writer, Tom Waits, had. That is to say that he literally waltzed with Matilda, that being one Mathilde Bondo, in her native...
On the surface, Pet Shop Boys’ “I’m with Stupid” features what we would classify as a complex relationship between the vocalist and addressee. However, it is obvious they share a deep association, possibly even a...
As history tells it, during the early 1980s the Cold War was pretty much at its peak. The reason this conflict is referred to as being ‘cold’ is because the two main factions, Russia and...
Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s “Relax” has gone down in British history as being one of the first with an overt-sensual innuendo to make it mainstream. But the word overt, as presented in the sentence...
“Do They Know It’s Christmas?” song is premised on it being “Christmastime”. Indeed the singers (as well as addressees) are very much in the midst of enjoying yet another holiday season. And they are...
“Video Killed the Radio Star” is a commentary on revolutionary technological changes which were transpiring within a 20-year period of the song’s release. The specific way The Buggles go about chronicling these changes is...
