“Basket Case” is a bubble gum punk song about a pretty serious topic. The term basket case refers to someone who is unable to function - in this case due to mental distress “I am one of those melodramatic fools neurotic to the bone no doubt about it.Sometimes I give myself the creeps, sometimes my mind plays tricks on me.” Green Day singer Billie Joe Armstrong wrote the song about his then - undiagnosed panic attacks. “I think i'm cracking up”Armstrong told VH1 “The only way I knew what was happening was to write a song about it.” As Armstrong told Rolling Stone “ The gender change up was no accident. (can’t write line due to vulgarity) I wanted to challenge myself and who ever the listener may be.” “Its also looking at the world saying,
It’s always good to start investing money at an early age, however, it’s a hard start. Many banks have improved interest rates as well as no opening fees to start a savings account. Stocks, such as health and technology are also currently going up. Billy should start by saving small amounts of money per week for two years and placing it in a savings account. He should also buy health and tech stocks, such as Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) and International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), and keep a diversified portfolio, along with buying bonds.
Elvis Bogart is accused of murdering a friend over a $100 debt. On March 18th 2016 emergency services were called to a Flemington home to tend to an unconscious Mr Dunne. Bogart told the police that Dunne owed him money and Dunne wasn't giving it to him. This is when the fighting began and Bogart realised he had gone too far. Mr Bogart hit Sam Dunne's head onto a brick wall numerous times and left him unconscious for 30 minutes until finally calling emergency services.
Women have been the "pretty faces" of the band since they started playing music. Women were
If one was to go out into the street, walked up to a random stranger and asked them if they knew who Louis Armstrong was, chances are that they would be able to answer you correctly. Louis Armstrong (Aug 4th, 1901 - Jul 6th, 1971) was an American trumpeter, composer, singer and occasional actor who became one of the most influential figures in jazz. His career spanned many decades, from the 1920s to his death in 1971, and many different eras in jazz. He first came to prominence in the 1920s as a trumpeter and cornet player with no technique as well as being very skilled in scat singing, Armstrong was a foundational influence in jazz, influencing many later jazz artists as well as shifting the focus of the music from collective improvisation to solo performance.With his very well-known and recognizable gravelly voice, a technique that was later named “crooning”, Armstrong was an incredibly influential singer, demonstrating great dexterity as an improviser by bending the lyrics and melody of a song for expressive purposes on demand. Renowned for his charming and incredibly charismatic stage presence and voice almost as much as for his trumpet and/or cornet playing, Armstrong 's influence extends far beyond jazz music, and by the end of his career in the early 1970s at his death, he was widely regarded as a deep and profound influence on popular music in general. Armstrong was one of the first very popular
On Feb. 13, the LSU Tigers delivered a 76-71 statement win over No. 15 Texas A&M that, for a moment, dispelled the common notion that head coach Johnny Jones is nothing more than a top-tier recruiter with undeniable coaching deficiencies.
In the article, “You’ve Got the wrong Song: Nashville and Country Music Feminism,” by writer Claire Miye Stanford describes how they try to break the stereotype of women, and also show how one can be both feminine
As the video starts Ciara looks at the audience, covered in tattoos, diamond rings, chains looping her neck and says, "It's 2007, ladies, I think it's time to switch roles." Ciara wears two male outfits. One of them she has on jeans, tank top, skull hat and Jordan’s. In the other one she has on a full suit with white Air Force Ones. She dresses like this to “switch roles”. It’s funny how something a woman might do can be seen negative while a man could get away with it. Ciara explains this by saying “Pull up your pants (just like them)/Take out the trash (just like them)/ Getting' your cash (like
Joe Louis is known as one of the greatest boxers of all time, and he certainly loved what he did. There was a time in our economy where wrestling was dominated by gambling interests, but Joe Louis earned an honest name and helped elevate this sport back to what it once was by establishing his reputation and bringing people’s interests back up from the decline. His real name was Joseph Louis Barrow. He went by his fighting name, Joe Louis, but also had the nickname of the “Brown Bomber”. He didn’t necessarily have the most facile life, but he almost always persevered and made do with the hand life dealt him.
So there I was, sitting there in the courtroom- next to a misunderstood man, trying to defend him against the wrath of the court and liberate him from the clutches of prison. What he did couldn’t be thought as simple because of the complexity of the situation, and because of this- I’ll need to review what I know or have been told, or more so what I’ve heard from the client on how this situation came to be. According to my client, Billy Mancouver, he was strolling around the park, walking his dog, near the closest park that was the closest to his home- Westville. While taking a break on the bench, he says he thinks he sees a woman getting robbed as the mugger tries taking her sparkling purse underneath a dimly lit area near the colossal tree. He said he looked around the active
He was known as the greatest of all jazz musicians. He defined what it really was to play genuine jazz music and taught the world to swing. He included joy, spontaneity, and amazing technical abilities. Louis Armstrong was a genius when it came to his inventive musical ability. In this paper, I will tell you about who Armstrong was, his early childhood, accomplishments, and his living legacy.
Louis Armstrong also nicknamed Satchmo, a man who had minimal formal education, who was born in on a dirt street in the poorest section of New Orleans. After reading Satchmo: “My life in New Orleans (excerpts) (1954)” this had changed a little more of my out look on Louis Armstrong, for example before this reading, I only knew very little about Armstrong. How he was a very humble man, an excellent trumpet player and musician (one of the major influences in Jazz music) and his vocals were very grunty (definitely one of a kind). I have very little knowledge about his background until I had done this reading.
Also there is grief, in the song it says “when our friends talk about you all it does is tear me down.” he is grieving about his ex. whenever he hears about her he reminisces about the memories they had and it tears him down.
In the 1950 and 60s music started to progressively have a huge impact on teen culture. Music became a gateway to escape from reality. Unequal gender roles between men and women were already very prominent in society at the time and music just put a magnifying glass to the patriarchy way of living. Women (even to this day) are typically objectified by men in their songs. But on the other hand, when a woman was the lead singer of the group typically the lyrics would be about how the girl fantasizes about a boy she is very fond over.
For the women, this was a new experience because it was one common interest among most females in the nation; there was a sense of community and unity among them. “They also helped trigger a sense that a new age had arrived in which many of the old rules were open to question. The Beatles embodied this new spirit, and virtually the whole country embraced them because of it.” Blurring line between gender roles, the Beatles challenged notions of masculinity with their high voices and long hair, and the content of their music. Both women and men alike began to style their hair like the Beatles, and the “New Woman” and “New Man” came to be.
band or musician who wrote a song about suicide or killing someone else. This is also the case