It's just what happens when you don't know the lyrics. :D

[Viper1j]

'Should we tell her?': Kari Lake roasted over her rally entrance song choice

Failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake was on the receiving end of a roasting by AzCentral columnist Laurie Roberts over her choice of an entrance song at her most recent rally to plug yet another attempt to get her 2022 election loss overturned.Roberts joined with one of her readers...

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'Should we tell her?': Kari Lake roasted over her rally entrance song choice​

Failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake was on the receiving end of a roasting by AzCentral columnist Laurie Roberts over her choice of an entrance song at her most recent rally to plug yet another attempt to get her 2022 election loss overturned.


Roberts joined with one of her readers in pointing out that Lake decided that the song "American Woman" -- which is critical of American women — was an appropriate selection which Roberts, in turn, called "... the funniest thing I saw all week."

Noting that Lake used the Lenny Kravitz cover of the Canadian band Guess Who's oldie, Roberts concentrated on the lyrics which state, in part, "Don't come hanging around my door --I don't want to see your face no more --I got more important things to do --Than spend my time growing old with you."

After asking rhetorically, "Should we tell her?" Roberts added, "Yeah, nothing funny about her now seven-month-old refusal to accept the fact that she just flat-out lost."

"I would guess a fair number of Arizona voters — the ones who put Katie Hobbs into the Governor’s Office come to mind, as well as the ones who have tired of her post-election tirade — might agree that Lake has hit upon the perfect anthem," she quipped before noting reader Michael Jonas wrote to her stating, "The lyrics are incredibly appropriate…….if one is strongly opposed to Ms. Lake,” before adding, "Why she’d do that is beyond me.”

To which Roberts pointed out, "It’s probably because, in her view of the world, the song is a compliment."

You can read her whole piece here.

You can listen to the original version by the Guess Who below:

 

[Zorba]

Most people don't actually listen to lyrics, sadly.

 

[K1052]

Most people don't actually listen to lyrics, sadly.

*nods in old Republicans dancing to YMCA*

 

[Pohemi]

Sure, the playing of YMCA at Donnie TwoScoops rallies was hilarious...but this is even more appropriate misuse by Lake's team. A complete lack of awareness in regards to lyrics no one on her team bothered to understand for her.

It honestly makes me wonder if it isn't a staffer(s) trolling her after 7 or 8 months of her continuing election denials. It's the least she deserves for wasting so much oxygen and AZ taxpayer money and the court's time. People are tired of her shit.

 

[Muse]

Most people don't actually listen to lyrics, sadly.

You bet I listened to those lyrics from the first time I heard it and I knew exactly where they were coming from. It was snarling defiance. Kari Lake is obviously an idiot.

One my favorite songs: American Woman. Rockin' in your face music, man. Kari Lake is full of shit.

Edit: I doubt I have heard the Lenny Kravitz cover. The Guess Who's original is dynamite.

Edit2: Well, the video's enticing with all the T&A, but musically the Guess Who's big radio hit is way way superior.

 

[Captante]

Most people don't actually listen to lyrics, sadly. HAPPILY IN THIS CASE!

Fixed.

 

[Moonbeam]

I used to listen to music as a form of pleasure. It makes you feel things. It creates an emotional mood. It helps one feel things vicariously, at a manageable distance. I see it as a kind of emotional addiction.

These days I never have music playing in the background. I don't like the feeling I am being emotionally manipulated, positively or negatively. I prefer to feel or feel nothing but what is generated spontaneously in me. I try neither to seek or reject but accept what is as it is. This means also, of course, that I can listen to music if the mood strikes me. It just doesn't as much anymore.

 

[kt]

You bet I listened to those lyrics from the first time I heard it and I knew exactly where they were coming from. It was snarling defiance. Hobbs is obviously an idiot.

One my favorite songs: American Woman. Rockin' in your face music, man. Katie Hobbs is full of shit.

Edit: I doubt I have heard the Lenny Kravitz cover. The Guess Who's original is dynamite.

Edit2: Well, the video's enticing with all the T&A, but musically the Guess Who's big radio hit is way way superior.

Did I miss some news about Katie Hobbs? Why so much hate?

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

American woman gonna mess your mind
Mmm, American woman gonna mess your mind
Uh, American woman gonna mess your mind


Don't wanna see your shadow no more
Coloured lights can hypnotize
Sparkle someone else's eyes
Now, woman
I said get away
American woman
Listen what I say, hey

Perfectly fitting I'd say.

 

[Tsinni Dave]

Somehow I forgot this song for the "Political songs" thread. Maybe she sees herself as Confederate, and as such America is yet another of her enemies, like reality and democracy also seem to be?

 

[Viper1j]

Somehow I forgot this song for the "Political songs" thread. Maybe she sees herself as Confederate, and as such America is yet another of her enemies, like reality and democracy also seem to be?

OR.
She could be flashing back to that time when she pole danced at Deja Vu back when she was in college? 🤔

 

[darkswordsman17]

Did I miss some news about Katie Hobbs? Why so much hate?

Seems he's somehow is confusing Lake with Hobbs because they both have first names that start with Ka and have an i in them.

 

[Perknose]

I prefer to feel or feel nothing but what is generated spontaneously in me.

Is that why you write so much here?

 

[Pens1566]

Same as Trump playing "Fortunate Son" at his rallies. Just completely oblivious.

 

[nakedfrog]

Most people don't actually listen to lyrics, sadly.

See: conservatives who were surprised that Rage Against the Machine espouses woke viewpoints.

You bet I listened to those lyrics from the first time I heard it and I knew exactly where they were coming from. It was snarling defiance. Hobbs is obviously an idiot.

One my favorite songs: American Woman. Rockin' in your face music, man. Katie Hobbs is full of shit.

Edit: I doubt I have heard the Lenny Kravitz cover. The Guess Who's original is dynamite.

Edit2: Well, the video's enticing with all the T&A, but musically the Guess Who's big radio hit is way way superior.

Absolutely, I generally like Lenny Kravitz well enough, but his cover doesn't work for me, at all.

 

[Commodus]

My favorite example of this: the conservatives that accused Rage Against the Machine of becoming too political... and apparently never having paid attention to RATM lyrics once since 1992.

 

[Viper1j]

See: conservatives who were surprised that Rage Against the Machine espouses woke viewpoints.

Absolutely, I generally like Lenny Kravitz well enough, but his cover doesn't work for me, at all.

Just watched the Lenny Kravitz cover. If you watch the video on mute, it's VERY Trumpy. Makes a little more sense why she chose it now.

 

[Muse]

Did I miss some news about Katie Hobbs? Why so much hate?

Doh! I meant the election results denier who she rightly defeated, Kari Lake!

 

[Muse]

Just watched the Lenny Kravitz cover. If you watch the video on mute, it's VERY Trumpy. Makes a little more sense why she chose it now.

But she's still a total idiot for not knowing WTF the song's about. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot...

 

[Muse]

See: conservatives who were surprised that Rage Against the Machine espouses woke viewpoints.

Absolutely, I generally like Lenny Kravitz well enough, but his cover doesn't work for me, at all.

You can tell he's really got guitar chops and digs his band thing. I looked him up yesterday, he's in a show biz family, been into this and that, has been through a lot of changes. What he does at any one time may be a phase, evidently.

 

[skyking]

I'm wondering if she got permission to use the song or paid any royalties?.

 

[Pens1566]

I'm wondering if she got permission to use the song or paid any royalties?.

 

[Pohemi]

You can tell he's really got guitar chops and digs his band thing. I looked him up yesterday, he's in a show biz family, been into this and that, has been through a lot of changes. What he does at any one time may be a phase, evidently.

Put it that way...it sounds a bit like Prince tbh. He liked to experiment and evolve, and incorporated many different genres and past influences in his music and made it entirely original and his.

Not to mention being underrated on guitar. Prince was phenomenal, and Lenny's pretty damn good himself. Not all of his music shows it off, but he's definitely got it.

 

[dainthomas]

I always thought it was an antiwar song and "American Woman" was the government (represented by the Statue of Liberty), and the singer wants her to stay away and "sparkle someone else's eyes" about fighting in Vietnam.

Conservative politicians completely misunderstanding songs while trying to look hip and cool is a tale as old as time.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

^^^ There is that one line about a 'ghetto scene'.