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THIS IS A REPOST FROM AN OLD BLOGOPHILIA THAT I THOUGHT WOULD BE APPROPRIATE FOR FRIEND TO FRIEND ~ I AM BUSY THIS WEEK PLANNING SEPT FOR THE CREATIVE POETRY CORRAL AND A TRIP I’M TAKING 2-12 SEPT!!! ENJOY…….

BTW I enjoy all types of music some better than others..

Wow what a challenge Blogophilia is this week, I mean how in the world do you fit in chocolate rain, a hot tub for two and Billy Idol all in one topic?

Well you know me – or maybe not – Hummm so I’m the Google Queen (actually dubbed that at work) and I began by googling “It’s Raining Chocolate”. Wouldn’t you know I hit pay dirt finding a song titled “Chocolate Rain”, by Tay Zonday? Interesting Huh? So then I checked out the lyrics – it is about the struggles of black’s. So then I thought, what if anything would this song have in common with “White Wedding” by Billy Idol? Believe it or not there is a thread!!! I’m not a deep philosophical person so I’m not going to try and baffle you with BS on any in-depth psychological inferences of either song. However, I’ll just simply state that the common thread is “starting over” or should I say “overcoming life’s roadblocks due to ones gender or race”. That’s just my take on where there may be some similarities…

The last Refrain in “Chocolate Rain” :

Chocolate Rain
More than ‘marchin more than passing law
Chocolate Rain
Remake how we got to where we are.

Beginning of second chorus in “White Wedding”

Take me back home
There is nothin’ fair in this world
There is nothin’ safe in this world
And there’s nothin’ sure in this world
And there’s nothin’ pure in this world
Look for something left in this world
Start again

Interesting……….

Call me Crazy, but just imagine if Billy and Tay were sitting back in a “two-seat hot tub”, collaborating on a song together. Maybe it would come out something like this………

Song Review excerpt on Wikipedia:

During a brief interview on The Opie and Anthony Show, Zonday referred to the song as “cheesy”, and stated that its cryptic lyrics dealt with deep racism. This echoes Zonday’s comments posted to the video’s page on YouTube.

Many attribute the initial spread of the popularity of the song to 4chan. Tay Zonday said, “ I’m pretty sure the “Chocolate Rain” attention started as a joke at 4chan.org, an image board that is credited with starting lots of popular internet phenomena. It spread to a general audience and people started uploading spoofs. I don’t know what causes people to listen to my music. If I could speak it, there would be no reason to write songs. ” The song deals with many race issues in America, invoking high prison rates among African Americans (“The prisons make you wonder where it went”), economic racism (“Raised your neighborhood insurance rates”) and in many instances how society glosses over racial problems (“Every February washed away,” referring to Black History Month in the U.S. and Canada).

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