{"id":12706,"date":"2011-01-25T13:42:59","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T18:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/12706\/music-message\/"},"modified":"2011-01-25T13:42:59","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T18:42:59","slug":"music-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/12706\/music-message\/","title":{"rendered":"Music with a Message&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif\">I&#8217;ve always loved Pink.  Her first big hit &#8220;Get The Party Started&#8221; was a cool tune that let me know that I wasn&#8217;t dead yet&#8211;I still could have some fun.  As she matured as an artist, I began to realize she had more to say than just &#8216;have a f**ing good time.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif\">Her latest is evidence of that.  I do believe that Rock n Roll has the power to change peoples&#8217; souls and this is an example of that, pure and simple.  And while I&#8217;m sure there are many more songs that exemplify that, I&#8217;m only two other examples come to mind.  Ironically, they all deal with the subtext\/theme of child abuse.  I offer all three to you now&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif\">F**ing Perfect &#8211; Pink<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif\"><object><\/object><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif\">Luka &#8211; Suzanne Vega<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif\"><object><\/object><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif\">Runaway Train &#8211; Soul Asylum<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif\"><object><\/object><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">I guess love and pain are universal.\u00a0 I welcome your comments.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">xoxo<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always loved Pink. Her first big hit &#8220;Get The Party Started&#8221; was a cool tune that let me know that I wasn&#8217;t dead yet&#8211;I still could have some fun. As she matured as an artist, I began to realize she had more to say than just &#8216;have a f**ing good time. Her latest is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}