On 7/17/07, The Cunctator cunctator@gmail.com wrote:
On 7/15/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 16:41:22 +0300, "Jussi-Ville Heiskanen" cimonavaro@gmail.com wrote:
Not so much a case in point, but a touchstone. Do *you* think we are better or worse than Britannica for having "List of songs about masturbation". Stand up and be counted...
No, a case in point. There is no encyclopaedic topic "songs about masturbation" because there is nothing about masturbation which has any logical connection with songs, and vice-versa (although I suppose one could stretch a point and say that, for example, Whitney Houston's "I will always love you" gives more pleasure to the performer than anybody watching). The connection is an arbitrary one, and pretty much every entry in the list was also unsupported by references, because in the end what constitutes being *about* something, rather than simply mentioning it in the lyrics somewhere? I am all for setting up a sister project, triviapedia or whatever, for collecting such examples of word association gone mad, but there's no question in my mind that a neutral, verifiable encyclopaedia is not the place for them.
There is an immense amount of illogic in the above paragraph. Are you claiming that songs about masturbation don't exist?
Or that it's impossible to tell what "Turning Japanese" and "Blister in the Sun" are talking about?
C'mon.
Actually, I've avoided thinking about the lyrics of Blister in the Sun for many years now, because it's so obvious (it's stated), and I wanted to enjoy the light pop melody without thinking about the lyrics.
This post needed a spoiler warning in the subject line.
KP