Current Events > I do not like the song "American Pie"

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It's just not that good imo. Kinda long and annoying.

THAT SONG lS DOGSHIT

I liked its use in Black Widow to show American exceptionalism, which is what the song really represents in the first place american "pie"

Yeah that song sucks dirty donkey taint

Weird Al does it better anyway.

Ok?

Then don't listen to it.

It's pretty bad. So is Free Fallin' and that other shitty classic rock song about kids robbing a house and escaping somewhere. It'd be great if I never heard them again but unfortunately I have a lot of old relatives that like to listen to classic rock stations who play them every 5 songs

Good song but overplayed

I definitely never got out if it what others at bars and parties did

It's like the Pledge of Allegiance, I could hear it every day and never care to learn the actual words

I fuckin love that song

So bye-bye, Miss American Pie
Drove my Chevy to the levee
But the levee was dry
Them good old boys were drinking whiskey and rye
Singing, "This'll be the day that I die"
This will be the day that I die

They never even tell you what kind of pie it is.

It's a good song.

You can't hate it because it's popular.

I don't think it's bad, it's just extremely dated, as it's a song about things that happened close to 60-70 years ago.

it is definitely too long

Long long time ago, I can still remember

Personally I love it.

This topic is disgusting.

DeadBankerDream posted...

This topic is disgusting.

The day the music died was actually when Don McLean first performed "American Pie"

*fkees*

This takes me back to my high school daze

https://youtu.be/Y_zCtWz1vdQ

Legit this is my favourite song of all time and ya'll pissing me off.

Granted, I'm not really into music, so it's not that big an endorsement.

The song is fine and is rumored to be a tribute to a music teacher. But Don MacLean is a bad person.

Whats the song about robbing a house, though?

The song is okay, but it's mythologized in a really cyclical and repetitive way like Hotel California is and it has the sort of reputation that makes the most annoying brand of drooling moron overplay it because of its status as a masterpiece. Then those same morons get on your case for not wanting to listen to it for the fiftieth time, because your burnt-out ass is "disrespecting a classic".

Like once you crack the mystery, that it's a historical account of the musical landscape from the death of Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper up to where the song was released, the mythologisation starts to get old really quick because the same handful of shallow hacks will keep perpetuating this narrative that it's such a tightly woven mystery that the average layperson will never know its true meaning.

I had a friend who would play the same songs over and over and would like repeat the same platitudes over and over until it was almost unbearable. Like I showed him Pac-Man by Gorillaz and he would keep rapping Colt 45 by Afroman over the beat because that was the most striking part of the song to him, that it was so tightly measured and expressive that he could rap other songs over it. That guy wore American Pie out for me. Just fucking played it and repeated the whole "wow what a saga it's an incredible song" spiel for months, had me entirely sick of this song by the end of it. Like good for him, but I just couldn't stand it after a while. He had that effect on me with a lot of his tastes, and I'm glad I'm not friends with him any more because when I eventually voiced my displeasure he'd like make it out that there was something wrong with me. That baggage is just sort of latched onto American Pie now because of that guy.

To go further into the Hotel California comparison, that song is ultimately a self contained narrative about a guy visiting a hotel and experiencing a bunch of spooky shit. But for years it's been held up as this song depicting a hidden truth, where its applicability as a narrative has supplanted the actual narrative as a song. It's about drugs, or it's about the music industry - when it's just this song about like ghosts or murderers or cultists or some weird shit the narrator gets entirely too caught up in. That's what makes it so compelling, it's this evocative story about being trapped somewhere against your will and having forbidden knowledge, and it's just a weird non-sequitur about this fuckin ghost motel or something.

But where it goes wrong is when people insist on there being that hidden meaning. Where the song is placed on a pedestal as a masterful tale woven beyond the ability for mere mortals to comprehend it because of some bullshit fan interpretation that dictates that its meaning must be more significant than just being a suspenseful story about getting innocently wrapped up in some weird ghost shit. Where the mastery of the song is based entirely on horseshit that makes the reader and writer feel more smart than they actually are. And the exact same problem befalls American Pie, even though it actually does have an explanation that connects all those dots. People still call it an unsolved riddle, and that applicability that other people try to use to fit other narratives into it is why it's so widespread.

Again - fine song. I loved it for years. But it gets really old when people prioritise this mysterious narrative above the strength of the song itself, and all you hear from people are how masterful and evocative the song is for years and years instead of just listening to it as a piece of music. It's a classic, and therefore we must play it as much as possible as a way of honouring it as a classic. And we must dictate what makes it a classic whenever it comes on, whether it be the actual explanation of the song or some WatchMojo-tier cult of personality horseshit that fluffs up the legend so morons can speak up the whole thing. It gets really old after a while.

Sariana21 posted...

Whats the song about robbing a house, though?

I really can't remember the name but it was about two kids in love growing up robbing someone as teenagers. One gets caught and the other goes to mexico I think and waits for the other

Sariana21 posted...

But Don MacLean is a bad person.

always gotta be that one guy

Axiom posted...

I really can't remember the name but it was about two kids in love growing up robbing someone as teenagers. One gets caught and the other goes to mexico I think and waits for the other

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WCFUGCOLLU

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Anony1125 posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WCFUGCOLLU

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Yup that's it. Every classic rock station plays that shit on repeat just like the others mentioned in here

I love Steve miller band

they got hit after hit after hit

Everyone has their own likes and dislikes/tastes. I happen to like this song a lot, and Weird Al's version is made even better by that fact. No idea why I like it I just do, but it is often hard to explain why one likes something in my experience.

MrMallard posted...

Dude. It's just an overplayed song.

Questionmarktarius posted...

Dude. It's just an overplayed song.

Oh yeah, of course. It's not a huge deal or anything. I just have a lot to say about it.

Like have you seen me post over the past seven years? This is my bread and butter.

DeadBankerDream posted...

Legit this is my favourite song of all time and ya'll pissing me off.

Granted, I'm not really into music, so it's not that big an endorsement.

Oh don't worry, we know and can tell.

Amen

It's the most overrated song of all time by a yottamile.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbnNiiRYdqE

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Do tell.

I'm legit curious as to what song could possibly be more overrated than American Pie.

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And all better than My Chevy to the Levee

There is a Bar in my town that claims to be where he wrote it.
There is even a little plack at the bar table where supposedly wrote it.

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A new challenger appears!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJNekD3dnQY

Yeah, it really sucks. It's just a lot of rambling allegories that goes on for way longer than it should.

We have some real critics ITT huh

Sariana21 posted...

The song is fine and is rumored to be a tribute to a music teacher. But Don MacLean is a bad person.

Whats the song about robbing a house, though?

It's a song about the day Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, "The Big Bopper" and the pilot Roger Peterson died in a plane crash. It's really a tribute song.

Yeah, I find it annoying too. Off the top of my head, other popular songs I hate would be The Fugees - Killing Me Softly, Outkast - Roses and anything by Meatloaf.

The endboss appears!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8r-tXRLazs

DirkDiggles posted...

So bye-bye, Miss American Pie
Drove my Chevy to the levee
But the levee was dry
Them good old boys were drinking whiskey and rye
Singing, "This'll be the day that I die" In *insert college town here*
This will be the day that I die In *insert college town here*

Maybe just me, but it was always a staple drunk college kids sang at house parties.