A Thursday Interruption: Tori Amos’ “97 Bonnie and Clyde,” Bree Sharp’s “Boys of Summer,” Save Ferris’ “Come on Eileen” (and yes THESE ARE ALL COVERS). Also: Some thoughts on La Gaga and white privilege, and Kelis’ “Acappella”

Yeah. She’s writing about her grandparents and how the issues they went through when he came back from WWII. (He showed up all wet/on the rainy front step/wearing shrapnel in his skin/and the war he saw/lives inside him still/it’s so hard to be gentle an warm/the years passed by and now they have granddaughters.) It’s my kind of love song ‘cos it’s about two people who went through a lot of stuff and kept at it for decades, as opposed to Taylor Swift crap about love at first sight and yearing to be with the one (who is with someone else and can’t see how perfect she is for him). It shitted me that they made it the theme song to Dawson’s Creek ‘cos a bunch of angsty teenagers who think everything is the End of the World was SO NOT what the song was about.

Green Day’s “Time of Your Life” — the song whose actual full name is “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life).” I remember watching the video and hearing the song for the first time and thinking, “Whoa! Ultimate sarcastic kiss-off song!” Then I watched as person after person, group after group, proceeded to completely misrepresent the song and its meaning. The pinnacle of the madness was watching an episode of “ER” in which the Jeannie Boulet doctor character sang it at a patient’s funeral–!?