Time to get pedantic: He says "where" not "because". These are just examples of things in the paradise city, not the criteria.
It's people thinking liking big butts somehow makes you unable to lie all over again.
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Wait, are you telling me the lyrics aren't, "I like big butts therefore I cannot tell a lie"? I've been singing it wrong for years.
It was actually a deep discussion of sociopolitical topics of the time, if you listen to the whole album.
Your telling me that Sir Mix a lot has more than one song? Doubt.
Big if true
Big butts if true.
I seem to remember some sort of Humpty Dance
More than one that became popular? No, much to his dismay. More than one at all? Holy crap yes, I think his discography contains no less than 4 albums.
yeah but they're clearly the top selling points. when you describe a place you'd go for the important details. not like... "we should go to new york city; they have traffic signs and some buildings are gray"
Yep, that bluesky post gets an F on text interpretation.
The lyrics were intended to be "where the grass is free and the girls are easy but they were told to change it if I remember correctly :)
According to Slash it was originally "where the girls are fat, and they got big titties" but they knew it was never going to be on the release version.
Honestly probably the most historical take on what makes a place paradise. Slash would be right at home in the early days of man, making fertility idols.
Hubba hubba
Needed that NSFW flair, bud. Now I’m over here sporting a savage Woodrow.
Thanks for the new band name. A Savage Woodrow.
Woodrow Wilson was pretty fucking savage......
Where are the arms?
I'm no expert but I think those faint lines used to be arms/hands? Or they just snapped off?
Don't need arms to make babies...
Well he makes a compelling description of paradise
Well that makes a shitload more sense
where the grass is free and the girls are easy but they were told to change it if I remember correctly
That has way too many syllables.
Realistic and achievable. The secret to paradise is merely not to put it out of reach. Pretty deep message when you unpack it a little bit
'Grass normal color' might eventually be a luxury with global warming and ecological collapse.
The grass is part of the problem
Lawns? Yes. Grass? No.
Native grasses are good for the ecosystem as long as it is not a monoculture.
I live in California where the normal color for grass is a pale brown.
I live in the South, where the grass is extremely green and human rights are almost nonexistent
I come from the Midwest where the color of grass and presence of human rights are wildly inconsistent
And the "grass" they reefer to in the song, might just get you prison time.
I see what you did. Nice.
Maybe the message is that if you're easy to please, life is amazing.
Lots of philosophers have independently come up with the idea that you can't get happiness by consuming more and more. Basically none have pushed the opposite (Ayn Rand is not a philosopher).
You know what they say.
Wherever you go. Well.. There you are.
The song was originally supposed to go
Take me down to the Paradise city,
where the grass is green and the girls are pretty green also
but it didnt really flow well.
"Paradise" comes from Persian and means "beautiful garden"
"Appetite for Destruction" is the album. You should also (accurately) assume that the singer is either high or drunk or both.
There are a lot of ugly women and ugly lawns out there.
So, mostly anywhere in the Southern Hemisphere.