People who love music often love to sing the lyrics of the songs they enjoy. They sometimes inject them into a conversation. In my house, it’s routine to respond to a comment with a set of lyrics from some song or another, for example.
Regarding the last line, given the past few years I can't help but wonder what will be the "Popeye moment"* for more than just random whackos here and there... and I'm really not looking forward to it, even though I'm growing increasingly skeptical that it can be avoided with some people continually pushing harder and harder as time goes on.
* "That's all I can stands, cuz I can't stands no more!"
A year or so ago a 19-yr old kpop singer was at an awards show (in Korea, natch) and was mouthing or singing along with a song being played in a break. Said song was an american rap song by a black artist, so you can imagine that there were words that "only black people are allowed to say" in the lyrics.
Naturally the woke Western crowd went nuts that a 19-yr old Korean girl who speaks English as a 4th language (Korean, Japanese, French before English) and would likely assume that a song played publicly is just fine to sing along with looked like she was saying the word that only black people can say, and she should have known American racial culture (becuz she speaks English, so that apparently transfers such knowledge by osmosis or something), and what an awful person she must be.
I had to dig under my couch to find my eyes since they rolled out of my head, across the floor, and under there.
Regarding the last line, given the past few years I can't help but wonder what will be the "Popeye moment"* for more than just random whackos here and there... and I'm really not looking forward to it, even though I'm growing increasingly skeptical that it can be avoided with some people continually pushing harder and harder as time goes on.
* "That's all I can stands, cuz I can't stands no more!"
A year or so ago a 19-yr old kpop singer was at an awards show (in Korea, natch) and was mouthing or singing along with a song being played in a break. Said song was an american rap song by a black artist, so you can imagine that there were words that "only black people are allowed to say" in the lyrics.
Naturally the woke Western crowd went nuts that a 19-yr old Korean girl who speaks English as a 4th language (Korean, Japanese, French before English) and would likely assume that a song played publicly is just fine to sing along with looked like she was saying the word that only black people can say, and she should have known American racial culture (becuz she speaks English, so that apparently transfers such knowledge by osmosis or something), and what an awful person she must be.
I had to dig under my couch to find my eyes since they rolled out of my head, across the floor, and under there.