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Rapids World Trivia

28 Apr 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Chriss

Hello everyone!   While our society currently has only one preoccupation in mind, the same one for months and months, it is now time to change our ideas, the beautiful days are approaching, but we are still confined in our homes despite ourselves. Wi...

21 Guns by Green Day - Daily Song Facts

27 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind

This song addresses the topic of patriotism. Front-man and chief songwriter Billie Joe Armstrong: "It brings up 21st Century Breakdown in a lot of ways, and the 21 gun-salute for someone that's fallen, but done in an arena rock 'n' roll sort of wa...

Bitter Sweet Symphony by The Verve - Daily Song Facts

25 Apr 2020 3 minute read 1 comment ChasingAfterTheWind

At this point in his career, Richard Ashcroft had learned that money and happiness were not synonymous. "People have been sold a lottery dream in life that money solves everyone's problems," he said in a interview. "Suddenly you're looking at peop...

Gangsta's Paradise by Coolio - Daily Song Facts

25 Apr 2020 2 minute read 1 comment ChasingAfterTheWind

This is a reworking of Stevie Wonder's 1976 song "Pastime Paradise." It wasn't Coolio's idea to use Wonder's song; a singer named Larry Sanders - who goes by the stage name L.V. (Large Variety) - started working on it and sent a demo to Collio, wh...

Mr. Brightside by The Killers - Daily Song Facts

25 Apr 2020 2 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind

Killers guitarist Dave Keuning wrote this about lead singer Brandon Flowers' ex-girlfriend who cheated on him. Flowers recalled how he discovered her with another man at the Crown and Anchor pub in his hometown of Las Vegas: "I was asleep and I kn...

A Thousand Miles by Vanessa Carlton - Daily Song Facts

25 Apr 2020 2 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind

 The song was originally titled, "Interlude." The song is written in the key of B major. Carlton wrote the song's piano riff in the summer of 1998 at her parents' house in Philadelphia; her mother, who had been listening to her, said, "Vanessa, th...

Royals by Lorde - Daily Song Facts

23 Apr 2020 5 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind

Ella Yelich-O'Connor is a New Zealand singer-songwriter. Inspired by her love for such royals as Marie Antoinette, Louis XVI of France, and the last Tsar, Nicholas II of Russia, she adopted the moniker of Lorde (The 'e' is pronounced silently). Ye...

Tubthumping by Chumbawamba - Daily Song Facts

21 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind

In England, a tubthumper is a politician. The US equivalent of tubthumping is "going on the stump" (campaigning). "To piss" has a different meaning in the UK than in the US - "Pissing the night away" would translate to "Drinking (alcoholic beverag...

Asking for It [Ft. Kurt Cobain] by Hole - Daily Song Facts

21 Apr 2020 2 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind

It is the fourth track on the band's second studio album, Live Through This, released on April 12, 1994. Although not released as a single, "Asking for It" is one of the band's most notable songs as it charted a brief, four-week appearance on Bill...

Crawling by Linkin Park - Daily Song Facts

20 Apr 2020 2 minute read 1 comment ChasingAfterTheWind

In the video, the girl (Katelyn Rosaasen) is physically abused by her father. At the beginning, we can see all her bruises. Many of the lyrics demonstrate how hard it is to break the cycle of abuse ("These wounds, they will not heal" and "It's hau...