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Hard Times in Springsteenville

Why I love The Onion.

Song Trends, Volume 1: You’re Ugly

There are countless songs that praise a girl’s beauty.  There are even hateful songs that insult someone’s appearance.  But are there any songs that say “I love you even though you’re ugly”?  Yes!  And three things make a trend:

Example 1:

Example 2:

Example 3:

Next time on Song Trends: Casual bragging about money.

Reason to Love YouTube No. 11

Silly, silly people with lots of Legos and far too much time:

There Are Few Beaches in Finland

Some time ago I wrote about a favorite symphony of mine, the Sibelius Fifth, and I went into a little detail about the last movement.  Obviously, I am not the only one on Earth who loves this piece, and it has no doubt been appropriated for other uses.  I knew that I knew a popular song that lifted the big theme, but couldn’t remember it at the time.  It finally came to me!

Sibelius: Symphony No. 5:

First Class: “Beach Baby”:

Golden Ring

It’s a good thing that this great song wasn’t written recently, or you can be sure that one of the lines in the last verse would be “…just a hollow piece of bling…”.