Friday, March 13, 2009

Quickie

Just a quickie, to keep things ticking over. Following on from my previous post, I thought I'd have a go at another song title:

Bon Jovi wrote a song called Bad Medicine.

The chorus claims:

"your love is like bad medicine,
bad medicine is what I need."

To claim that someone's love is like bad medicine is probably not a good thing, but to claim that it is what they need is ill advised. I can't think of many bad medicines, but they probably don't work and at worst put the recipient at risk e.g. EST or Thallidamide. If you were to substitute the words "bad medicine" with "thallidimide", would you sing along? Would you encourage the song writer to pursue this relationship? I don't think you'd be a friend if you did. Is the fact that we don't see much of Jon Bon Jovi nowadays a result of him following this course of action? It acts as a cautionary tale for all of us.

Anyone got any other song titles they want to tear apart. Share them with me!

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