I'm kind of suprised there's so many people interpreting this song as an anti-Kennedy song. I've always interpreted it to be a song in dedication to the Kennedys rather than against them. And I don't see how her dancing during sad lyrics is "uniquely ironic." If that's true, then pretty much every musician that ever existed is being uniquely ironic. Dancing during emotional lyrics doesn't have any deeper meaning other than to liven up a music video. Would you prefer she stand in place?
its a place in time that moved so many of us,We all seem to think the Keendeys where the USA royals they were young clean cut but not dull and sappy, the keendeys made us feel strong young and that we had a chance against the big companys, thats all gone now the free world is locked into globel control.any way we can still rem and dream of the good old days
Wow. How can people fail so badly at misinterpreting this sorrowful, sympathetic song that is upbeat about what JKG stood for? And to try and say only US artists can sing about the Kennedy family utterly ignores the worldwide impact they have had.
Really... *shakes head* ...get a clue and get over yourselves.
I have loved song ever since it was released over twenty years ago. Never until now has it even crossed my mind that the song is doing anything else other than empathising with the Kennedy family
jfk was probably the last real president in america....since then there have been puppet presidents controlled by shadow govt. to me personally this is a song about paying the price for standing up for what you believe in. Jfk was about to have a major investigation within the corrupt banking system. so yeah imagine having the guts to do that and the price one would pay for it. an upbeat tempo for the hope of achieving something good for the people with a melonchony feel for the price paid
I like this video and and I posted it on my channel. The death of our president is a deeply personal thing for Americans and a national tragedy. To sing an upbeat song about his death is a bit odd indeed from my viewpoint but maybe not a foreigner. The lyrics are odd and quirky to me. She thought it would be a good idea to sink her teeth into this subject matter to sell records? This is a controversial song with it's subject matter but she is entitled to sing about whatever she wants to.
@Lookinland Right, including speeches by Kennedy talking about achieving world peace, fundamental rights to life, and future generations in combinatuon with that sad violin shows no sympathy.
Don't they teacg critical analysis when you people live?
@Lookinland She. Is. Not. Slagging. Them. And her comment is that fame is part of the tragedy for the family. That their drive and ambition to contribute to society also make them targets for people who would see them dragged down. She's talking about that tragedy, not slagging the family.
It seems people take things more literally than ever before. I think it's because of what I call the Internet generation. If the kids of the 80s were the Fast Food Generation, and wanted things fast, the youths of today want things NOW. And I have noticed they don't want subtlety or nuance in anything in their lives. They really react with knee-jerk reactions to most things. They seem incapable of figuring out how allusion or symbolism works. They want it all explained in black and white.
@ksim43 It seems they're driven by an amoral apathy. They can't let anything (not other people's feelings or sensitivities, not logic or fact, laws or rules) get in the way of what they want. There's no reasoning with many of them. I scoffed when I heard some boss in her 50s say these millennials are positive and fearless. No, they're more shallow, juvenile (I think 30-plus is the new 21) and impatient than positive. They all think they're special by birth and blatantly lack respect for elders.
@TsugaruClan Keeping in mind the generalizations aren't going to really sum up any group, think it is interesting the effect of technology can have on a generation (as you pointed out) and there certainly is a shallow segment that I think does have a sense of entitlement on instant gratification without being able to apply a converse side of critical thinking. But there are also young people who as your boss describe who are looking to effect positive change. Ultimately, people are people.
@TsugaruClan Keeping in mind the generalizations aren't going to really sum up any group, I think it is interesting the effect of technology can have on a generation (as you pointed out) and there certainly is a shallow segment that I think does have a sense of entitlement on instant gratification without being able to apply a converse side of critical thinking. But there are also young people who as your boss describe who are looking to effect positive change. Ultimately, people are people.
@2013branth A) There is nothing insulting about this song. B) There does not need to be any line between free speech and insult or anything else for the very reason that you mistake this song for "insult". It's far too subjective a distinction and we would end up with very little to say because of the sensitivity and ignorance.
I would not want somebody singing about my family this way. The video images of Kennedy help soften the sting and slander of her words and yes I knew she was a New Zealander when she was singing the song. I'm sure the Kennedys are a proud family even though they have dealt with tragedies and dark times like all familes go through.
@strangeuniverse1 Your last sentence, that's what the song is saying. Don't take the song title so literally. The line "Imagine being a Kennedy" is your first key to understanding what it's about. And your awareness can also grow with this line: "The world loves a sacrifice." She's singing of, and to, the tragedy that seems to follow the Kennedy family, and she wouldn't want to have to experience that pain, nor would she wish it on others.
@strangeuniverse1 This family was very much in the worldwide public eye. We felt every single tragedy that befell them. I was 12 yrs old hanging some laundry outside when my mother came running out to say JFK had been assassinated. I cried. I had just come home from school one day when my mother told me about Bobby. I cried. I was 12 yrs old and living in New Zealand. I for one, am glad Im not a Kennedy.
This does not seem like the kind of song an American would sing and write. I like the song, it just seems a bit odd to hear a song about an assasinated president of our country. I like the video clips of Kennedy, they are great for all those that were too young or not born yet during that time period.
@strangeuniverse1 Shona is not an American she is from New Zealand... and if you really understand the lyrics the song is talking about all the tradegic outcomes of the one family. Shona is known for her political songs...look at Soviet Snow as another great example of her political standings.
The irony of the dancing and tragic lyrics at 2'17" - 2'23" is stunning and unique. Maybe the best song since Sympathy For the Devil. Brilliant, better second time round. Anybody got a thought about the words, 'we laugh when we try too hard, we stop and start..'?
Fantastic song, great rhythm in the vocals! She must've been around for awhile to sing like that. "I love the look in your eyes, I can see your soul sometimes" the best line in pop rock since Eleanor Rigby. Great vibe from her appearance.
I heard this song in the late 80ties and before the internet-era it wasnt even possible to investigate the nz-context. OK its business to use the name of the american habsburgs for sale but the performance is still the same good.
This brings back so many memories of the fall '88 during my last few months living in L.A. That song was played everywhere, and I hadn't seen the video until now.
This song may upset some people, but this nation was built on freedom of speach, for whom which "Mr Kennedy" died for, Thank you for giving your life for which we could live in freedom, YOU ARE MISSED!
this song to me has always been the most incredible piece of Music. The words video everything still after all these years still hold nearly no1 to me.
Very compelling lyrics. I recall this song at high school. JFK was a very passionate visionary if somewhat delusional, especially regarding the space race to the moon. However, it was an obsession for the CIA and NASA in order to beat the USSR. You'd love this song if you're a Papist. I just like the historical context and a very good composition by Shona Laing.
She probably was sitting on a couch watching a news item or somethin and said to someone with her'ooh im glad im not a kennedy...hey i'll make that a song'
jeez, calm down people. she is not saying anything like 'im glad im not a kennedy, because they were a bunch of whatever...' if anything she is empathising with, or at least trying to, the kennedys. ie 'imagine being a kennedy' would you trade all the money, adulation and fame for having so many members of your family die in such tragic circumstances?
@mattykuchar Her words in this song are very pointed and direct. Compare this song to U2's tribute to Martin Luther King which is a better written song than this one and a tune everyone knows. Maybe Shona Laing should take notes from Bono on how to write a better song about a fallen national hero.
@strangeuniverse1 Disagree. 'Pride (In The Name Of Love)' is anthemic, rousing yet simple in structure, conveying its message to the masses and taking them with it to the roar of a huge chorus. Laing's song sounds as if she's just read the Kennedy story and been flattened by it. It's totally different to 'Pride'. It's almost a stream-of-consciousness sonic collage, complete with a grieving violin and JFK soundbites. In no way is it singalong ... but both songs radiate empathy for their subject.
@mattykuchar What would be wrong about criticising the Kennedy's anyway - corrupt and immoral, associates of the Mafia and Nazis, and invaders of Cuba and Vietnam. Not nice people. No wonder they were all assassinated.
@royalcourtier Nothing wrong with criticizing the Kennedys Matty boy, but get your facts straight. Kennedy opposed the invasion of Cuba during the Bay of Pigs fiasco and the Cuban Missile Crisis, and we we had been involved in Vietnam since 1945. RFK was a ruthless SOB in the beginning but evolved into a champion of the poor before he was assassinated. Joe Jr died when his plane blew-up on a bombing mission in
@royalcourtier Nothing wrong with criticizing the Kennedys Matty boy, but get your facts straight. Kennedy opposed the invasion of Cuba during the Bay of Pigs fiasco and the Cuban Missile Crisis, and we had been involved in Vietnam since 1945, long before JFK took office. RFK was a ruthless SOB in the beginning but evolved into a champion of the poor before he was assassinated '68. Joe Jr died when his plane blew-up on a bombing mission in WWII, so they're weren't all assassinated.
@mattykuchar And also,what a lot of people dont know was that she got permission from the Kennedy's to use footage of him,and they approved the song before it was released...how many artists today would do that?
Look dick wad, listen to the lyrics, she wasnt having a crack at the Kennedys, just at the politics, and just because you dont agree with her you dont need to pass judgement on her charactor, and just for the record, the Kennedys were unfortunatly cursed, so who would want to be them
Shona Laing always rocked. What a great role model for women in New Zealand. Shame her song didn't say "Glad I'm not an Indian Female". The 90 million aborted female foetus would scream out in accord. I am NOT anti-abortion, but selective Gender abortion makes me want to PUKE.
@SearchForTomorrow YES!! and shona laingy waingy is from a menial island in the pacific and hardly anyones heard of her,tha stupid stuckup she male wanna be LOL
Great song, but it is weird how much she looks like Mel Gibson in Mad Max (the original, not The Roadwarrior) except he didn't have the duck tail! I like the Obi wan Kenobe look though.
Good to see you're listening to what she's saying, rather than being superficial. She actually wrote the song after seeing some news piece on the Kennedys on the telly, and turning to her HUSBAND and saying "G.I.N.A.K." (hence the song of the same name).
Oh. OK. Well, that makes it EVEN MORE important to listen to what she's saying, rather than being distracted by her appearance or her sexuality. It's a great ditty.
Because it was written years ago and she just wanted to sing about the Kennedy's. Perhaps you could write to her and ask her to do one about John Lennon but Imagine seems to do the trick in remembrance.
Because the Kennedy's are the closest thing America has to royalty and unthinkable tragedy has been visited upon them over and over again. The burden of having the name Kennedy and the fear that goes along with it must be enormous. Even members of the family started to believe in a Kennedy curse. Its not a song about someone famous who got shot it's about a much larger concept. Don't oversimplify it.
this song ddn't get the attention it deserved. such a sad song..."wearing the fame, like a loaded gun, tied up with a rosary...." simply tear jerking and heartbreaking.
Totally agree with you and couldn't understand why it didn't do more. Loved this song when it first came out and was wrapt to find it again here a few months ago.
this song reminds me of my trip to germany because it was one of 25 songs they played on the planes stereo...i would time it perfectly so that i could hear this song over and over on the head phones.
if u read this shit shona...i rekon ur fukin cool...im not as old or wrinkly as u but i know what ur on about...u hate black jelly beans rite???????me too!!!! hello
She got special permission from the Kennedy's when she did the song to use the dubs...with their approval . Yes,great song,and a he was a great visionary....there's not many that can say they prevented a nuclear war.
After lunch, Miss Nelson resumed her reading of 'The Yearling' but had only gone a few minutes into it when the principle (this was 6th grade) opened the door and said, "Miss Nelson. Something has happened," and said it with such worry that everybody responded in kind.
I remember thinking that this was it, the nuclear war.
But instead, they sent us home, because President Kennedy had been assassinated.
in light of ted kennedy's death the family released a statement to the press today declaring their happiness that shona laing is not a kennedy. the baldwin family were not available for comment as to whether they would approve shona's request to write im glad im not a baldwin.
exquisite sadness. a lot like America: missed opportunities to be a fully formed, compassionate nation, until now with the redneck ruin we are behind every other modern nation in the world, and falling like the fallen. (Now let's have a shriveled pnis hick baboon waddle in here to squat and do what u freaks do so well....)
Heard this once on the radio 20 years ago. Brilliant lyrics that made me weep. Tried to find it at the music stores but it was like nobody nobody else had ever heard of it. I thought of the song today for some reason, and the internet brought it to me in about 3 seconds. Still makes me weep for that poor blessed/cursed family.
I'm kind of suprised there's so many people interpreting this song as an anti-Kennedy song. I've always interpreted it to be a song in dedication to the Kennedys rather than against them. And I don't see how her dancing during sad lyrics is "uniquely ironic." If that's true, then pretty much every musician that ever existed is being uniquely ironic. Dancing during emotional lyrics doesn't have any deeper meaning other than to liven up a music video. Would you prefer she stand in place?
HighRiseChateau 1 month ago
cia is recording i dont know you;-]
baddmood 2 months ago
most hasome women ive ever seen
baddmood 2 months ago
Female mullet FTWWW
MisterPoe666 2 months ago
This would be a cool punk cover.
fiftythirdand3rd 6 months ago
what a pretty man
baddmood 6 months ago
its a place in time that moved so many of us,We all seem to think the Keendeys where the USA royals they were young clean cut but not dull and sappy, the keendeys made us feel strong young and that we had a chance against the big companys, thats all gone now the free world is locked into globel control.any way we can still rem and dream of the good old days
Sex drugs and rock and roll
MrAussiefilm 6 months ago
I bought the 7 inch single of this when it came out, I still have it in my collection, great song.
simonschole 6 months ago
eh u fellas all too technical blahh blahh blahh take a chill pill shona lang rocks!!!
01allye 6 months ago
I like it quite much. Remembers me back in mid-1987, not to compare to today-rubbish, i. m. h. o.
widiotic 7 months ago
Truly an amazing song, I was a kid when this came out and I bought it. Her follow up hit "Drive Baby Drive" is also brilliant.
theivd 7 months ago
@theivd dont suppose you bought " dont tell me " ?? would love to hear that again
docaston 4 months ago
Wow. How can people fail so badly at misinterpreting this sorrowful, sympathetic song that is upbeat about what JKG stood for? And to try and say only US artists can sing about the Kennedy family utterly ignores the worldwide impact they have had.
Really... *shakes head* ...get a clue and get over yourselves.
BaboonLoveMonkey 7 months ago
You need to be a Kiwi - born in Shona's time to understand her lyrics. . .Go NZ . . .We know . .
minnehahakiwi 7 months ago 5
I have loved song ever since it was released over twenty years ago. Never until now has it even crossed my mind that the song is doing anything else other than empathising with the Kennedy family
raskdog 8 months ago 2
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raskdog 8 months ago
Love this song.
msfrydae 9 months ago
jfk was probably the last real president in america....since then there have been puppet presidents controlled by shadow govt. to me personally this is a song about paying the price for standing up for what you believe in. Jfk was about to have a major investigation within the corrupt banking system. so yeah imagine having the guts to do that and the price one would pay for it. an upbeat tempo for the hope of achieving something good for the people with a melonchony feel for the price paid
indiemuzochick 9 months ago
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indiemuzochick 9 months ago
I like this video and and I posted it on my channel. The death of our president is a deeply personal thing for Americans and a national tragedy. To sing an upbeat song about his death is a bit odd indeed from my viewpoint but maybe not a foreigner. The lyrics are odd and quirky to me. She thought it would be a good idea to sink her teeth into this subject matter to sell records? This is a controversial song with it's subject matter but she is entitled to sing about whatever she wants to.
strangeuniverse1 9 months ago
Aren't there any New Zealand politicians worth singing out about Shona,or was there more money to be made for you by using the Kennedy name?
Lookinland 10 months ago
@Lookinland Maybe, I'm glad I'm not a Clark or for that matter i'm glad I'm not a Muldoon
invisibleodour 9 months ago
Shona Laing will never be as famous as them
As always happens,top ppl are always being slagged off by ppl who are nothing lololol
Lookinland 10 months ago
@Lookinland She's sympathizing, she's not criticizing.
peecee1384 10 months ago 3
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Lookinland 10 months ago
@peecee1384
It doesn't sound sympathetic
Lookinland 10 months ago
@Lookinland Right, including speeches by Kennedy talking about achieving world peace, fundamental rights to life, and future generations in combinatuon with that sad violin shows no sympathy.
Don't they teacg critical analysis when you people live?
ksim43 9 months ago
@Lookinland She. Is. Not. Slagging. Them. And her comment is that fame is part of the tragedy for the family. That their drive and ambition to contribute to society also make them targets for people who would see them dragged down. She's talking about that tragedy, not slagging the family.
ksim43 9 months ago
The Kennedys are heros forever for what they did for black ppl in the 50s and 60s
Some non black ppl don't appreciate that
Lookinland 10 months ago
Why are there arguments about this track. She is more so sympathizing with the family more than anything! Geez, so many bigots on here!
TheNouveauxdecadence 10 months ago
@TheNouveauxdecadence
I don't get that she's sympathising
Lookinland 10 months ago
I ADORE and I mean ADOOOOOORE this track. Always been a great lover of it. The violins, lyrics and whole being of it is just immensely GENIUS!
TheNouveauxdecadence 10 months ago
It seems people take things more literally than ever before. I think it's because of what I call the Internet generation. If the kids of the 80s were the Fast Food Generation, and wanted things fast, the youths of today want things NOW. And I have noticed they don't want subtlety or nuance in anything in their lives. They really react with knee-jerk reactions to most things. They seem incapable of figuring out how allusion or symbolism works. They want it all explained in black and white.
TsugaruClan 11 months ago 16
@TsugaruClan Interesting analysis.
ksim43 10 months ago
@ksim43 It seems they're driven by an amoral apathy. They can't let anything (not other people's feelings or sensitivities, not logic or fact, laws or rules) get in the way of what they want. There's no reasoning with many of them. I scoffed when I heard some boss in her 50s say these millennials are positive and fearless. No, they're more shallow, juvenile (I think 30-plus is the new 21) and impatient than positive. They all think they're special by birth and blatantly lack respect for elders.
TsugaruClan 10 months ago
@TsugaruClan Keeping in mind the generalizations aren't going to really sum up any group, think it is interesting the effect of technology can have on a generation (as you pointed out) and there certainly is a shallow segment that I think does have a sense of entitlement on instant gratification without being able to apply a converse side of critical thinking. But there are also young people who as your boss describe who are looking to effect positive change. Ultimately, people are people.
ksim43 10 months ago
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@TsugaruClan Keeping in mind the generalizations aren't going to really sum up any group, I think it is interesting the effect of technology can have on a generation (as you pointed out) and there certainly is a shallow segment that I think does have a sense of entitlement on instant gratification without being able to apply a converse side of critical thinking. But there are also young people who as your boss describe who are looking to effect positive change. Ultimately, people are people.
ksim43 10 months ago
kennedys 4 the win
KennedyZane 11 months ago
(Glad I'm) Not A Kennedy HE WAS A COMMY!!
goldminer1957 11 months ago
Damn, I'm Australian and asian and i find this offensive. there needs to be a fine line between free speech and plain insult.
2013branth 11 months ago
@2013branth You have no idea what the song means.
record45rpm 11 months ago
@2013branth A) There is nothing insulting about this song. B) There does not need to be any line between free speech and insult or anything else for the very reason that you mistake this song for "insult". It's far too subjective a distinction and we would end up with very little to say because of the sensitivity and ignorance.
ksim43 10 months ago
I would not want somebody singing about my family this way. The video images of Kennedy help soften the sting and slander of her words and yes I knew she was a New Zealander when she was singing the song. I'm sure the Kennedys are a proud family even though they have dealt with tragedies and dark times like all familes go through.
strangeuniverse1 1 year ago
@strangeuniverse1 You have no idea what the song means.
record45rpm 11 months ago
@strangeuniverse1 Your last sentence, that's what the song is saying. Don't take the song title so literally. The line "Imagine being a Kennedy" is your first key to understanding what it's about. And your awareness can also grow with this line: "The world loves a sacrifice." She's singing of, and to, the tragedy that seems to follow the Kennedy family, and she wouldn't want to have to experience that pain, nor would she wish it on others.
TsugaruClan 11 months ago
@strangeuniverse1 This family was very much in the worldwide public eye. We felt every single tragedy that befell them. I was 12 yrs old hanging some laundry outside when my mother came running out to say JFK had been assassinated. I cried. I had just come home from school one day when my mother told me about Bobby. I cried. I was 12 yrs old and living in New Zealand. I for one, am glad Im not a Kennedy.
simisenti 10 months ago
This does not seem like the kind of song an American would sing and write. I like the song, it just seems a bit odd to hear a song about an assasinated president of our country. I like the video clips of Kennedy, they are great for all those that were too young or not born yet during that time period.
strangeuniverse1 1 year ago
@strangeuniverse1 Shona is not an American she is from New Zealand... and if you really understand the lyrics the song is talking about all the tradegic outcomes of the one family. Shona is known for her political songs...look at Soviet Snow as another great example of her political standings.
alchemyangel72 1 year ago 2
I knew a Kennedy, I hope things work out for him.
WoodRatGirl 1 year ago
Could 'when we try too hard' be the Greek tragic hubris?
socrates1818 1 year ago
In the beginning, the dunes looks like she's walkin on the moon. A big JFK aspiration and another irony in the video
socrates1818 1 year ago
The irony of the dancing and tragic lyrics at 2'17" - 2'23" is stunning and unique. Maybe the best song since Sympathy For the Devil. Brilliant, better second time round. Anybody got a thought about the words, 'we laugh when we try too hard, we stop and start..'?
socrates1818 1 year ago
Fantastic song, great rhythm in the vocals! She must've been around for awhile to sing like that. "I love the look in your eyes, I can see your soul sometimes" the best line in pop rock since Eleanor Rigby. Great vibe from her appearance.
socrates1818 1 year ago 2
I heard this song in the late 80ties and before the internet-era it wasnt even possible to investigate the nz-context. OK its business to use the name of the american habsburgs for sale but the performance is still the same good.
MegaJahwe 1 year ago
NOW ALL WE NEED IS men at work lol
goldminer1957 1 year ago
(Glad I'm) Not A Kennedy
goldminer1957 1 year ago
If you like this you'll like Soviet Snow
busybuzzbuzz 1 year ago
Wow this was Great Kiwi Music back in the 80's remember this growing up!
Kiwisexy1 1 year ago 2
This brings back so many memories of the fall '88 during my last few months living in L.A. That song was played everywhere, and I hadn't seen the video until now.
gdcat777 1 year ago 2
eventually the truth will come out; when the FBI files are released. What did Lee Harvey Oswald say "I'm just a patsy"....he was.
brabazon10 1 year ago
So awesome haven't heard this for ages!!
Mayfrancisxavier 1 year ago 2
Such a emotional song, such a waste of a fine young president in his prime.
forestgump1976 1 year ago
How a fabulous song like this and her brilliant album 'South' simply disappeared into almost anonymity is a crime...
A fabulous song and singer....rock on Shona...
GRDNZ 1 year ago 2
Shona Laing released this song in 1987
She is one fantastic chick, just love her
wenpen021 1 year ago
yea gr8 song, the Kennedys are not cursed thats just a myth
trueblueaus1488 1 year ago
im glad im not a kennedy
atutahiwahanga 1 year ago
@atutahiwahanga
hahaha my eldest son is named kennedy people used to sing this to him all the time lol
tarshjeff 1 year ago
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This song may upset some people, but this nation was built on freedom of speach, for whom which "Mr Kennedy" died for, Thank you for giving your life for which we could live in freedom, YOU ARE MISSED!
GUYENRIQUEZ 1 year ago
this song to me has always been the most incredible piece of Music. The words video everything still after all these years still hold nearly no1 to me.
red1957ful 1 year ago
Very compelling lyrics. I recall this song at high school. JFK was a very passionate visionary if somewhat delusional, especially regarding the space race to the moon. However, it was an obsession for the CIA and NASA in order to beat the USSR. You'd love this song if you're a Papist. I just like the historical context and a very good composition by Shona Laing.
timbtufuga 1 year ago
Excellent song! Fine pop song indeed.
cinqo7 1 year ago
Loved this song years ago, did never get to know who sang it, till today. Internet is great, thank you youtube!!!!.
husse 1 year ago
this was banned in the states
DirtyDefeatist 1 year ago
I bought this lower New York when just came out- still in original wrapper from overseas- was in Army and on leave- think it was around mid 80s
GALWAYSPANIARD 1 year ago
I LOVE mp3iffy it WORKS just google mp3iffy.
SebastianAndrew1 1 year ago
v v heartattack I meant which can be painful anyway v v
LookinIand 1 year ago
The way Kennedy died created the greatest public murder mystery of all time and just eternalised the power of the kennedy camelot mystique
If he died from a boring heartache,he wouldnt be so memorialised
Some of the other presidents are pretty much unspoken about.
Kennedy and Lincoln will never be forgotten and arguably its thanks to a loaded gun!! :-)
LookinIand 1 year ago
@LookinIand you dumplin
arthurdonachy 1 year ago
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@arthurdonachy you dumplin
LookinIand 1 year ago
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@arthurdonachy you dumpling
LookinIand 1 year ago
What are these idiots talking about 'listen to the lyrics'
I've read them she doesnt say anything and its repeated!!!
Shes used jfk s speech more
NZ obviously desperate for an idol
LookinIand 1 year ago
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@LookinIand
You know the problem with you Yanks? you have on your money 'in God we trust' yet you make gods out of everyone.
not to mention we all know what four letter word rythms with Yank
screamandshout100 1 year ago
I don't think Bobby Brady gets the deeper meaning of this song.
BluePedal 1 year ago
@BluePedal
Its quite shallow really
She probably was sitting on a couch watching a news item or somethin and said to someone with her'ooh im glad im not a kennedy...hey i'll make that a song'
yeah real deep hahahahahaa...stupid kiwis
LookinIand 1 year ago
jeez, calm down people. she is not saying anything like 'im glad im not a kennedy, because they were a bunch of whatever...' if anything she is empathising with, or at least trying to, the kennedys. ie 'imagine being a kennedy' would you trade all the money, adulation and fame for having so many members of your family die in such tragic circumstances?
mattykuchar 1 year ago 32
@mattykuchar
If what you read into it is the case,well they're not the only political leaders who were wealthy and famous to be shot
Why focus/pick on the 2 Kennedy brothers?
Lookinland 10 months ago
@mattykuchar bullseye
jrock3757 9 months ago
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@mattykuchar BULLSEYE
jrock3757 9 months ago
@mattykuchar Her words in this song are very pointed and direct. Compare this song to U2's tribute to Martin Luther King which is a better written song than this one and a tune everyone knows. Maybe Shona Laing should take notes from Bono on how to write a better song about a fallen national hero.
strangeuniverse1 9 months ago
@strangeuniverse1 Disagree. 'Pride (In The Name Of Love)' is anthemic, rousing yet simple in structure, conveying its message to the masses and taking them with it to the roar of a huge chorus. Laing's song sounds as if she's just read the Kennedy story and been flattened by it. It's totally different to 'Pride'. It's almost a stream-of-consciousness sonic collage, complete with a grieving violin and JFK soundbites. In no way is it singalong ... but both songs radiate empathy for their subject.
StuC5 8 months ago 2
@mattykuchar plagued by bad luck _The Kennedys'
katinasvenska 7 months ago
@mattykuchar What would be wrong about criticising the Kennedy's anyway - corrupt and immoral, associates of the Mafia and Nazis, and invaders of Cuba and Vietnam. Not nice people. No wonder they were all assassinated.
royalcourtier 6 months ago
@royalcourtier er, BS
galacticapoon 4 months ago
@royalcourtier Nothing wrong with criticizing the Kennedys Matty boy, but get your facts straight. Kennedy opposed the invasion of Cuba during the Bay of Pigs fiasco and the Cuban Missile Crisis, and we we had been involved in Vietnam since 1945. RFK was a ruthless SOB in the beginning but evolved into a champion of the poor before he was assassinated. Joe Jr died when his plane blew-up on a bombing mission in
matthewp1916 3 months ago
@royalcourtier Nothing wrong with criticizing the Kennedys Matty boy, but get your facts straight. Kennedy opposed the invasion of Cuba during the Bay of Pigs fiasco and the Cuban Missile Crisis, and we had been involved in Vietnam since 1945, long before JFK took office. RFK was a ruthless SOB in the beginning but evolved into a champion of the poor before he was assassinated '68. Joe Jr died when his plane blew-up on a bombing mission in WWII, so they're weren't all assassinated.
matthewp1916 3 months ago
@mattykuchar Running comeback reply for a long timein NZ for the word " Yes" was " Are the Kennedy's gunshy?"
saltydog45 5 months ago
@mattykuchar And also,what a lot of people dont know was that she got permission from the Kennedy's to use footage of him,and they approved the song before it was released...how many artists today would do that?
saltydog45 5 months ago 3
@saltydog45 wow, great info! man, this song ruled back then and it still kicks A today!!!!
galacticapoon 4 months ago
Shona Laing is supercool
nzrus 1 year ago
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Kennedy was a freeedom fighting King amongst men!
GOD BLESS JACKIE
i'M SO GLAD i;M NOT A LAING!!
arrogant kiwi lesbian nobody!!
LookinIand 1 year ago
arrogant kiwi!!
Kennedy was a King amongst men!
i'M STILL GLAD i;M NOT A LAING!!
LookinIand 1 year ago
@LookinIand
Look dick wad, listen to the lyrics, she wasnt having a crack at the Kennedys, just at the politics, and just because you dont agree with her you dont need to pass judgement on her charactor, and just for the record, the Kennedys were unfortunatly cursed, so who would want to be them
fwdlover 1 year ago
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@fwdlover
Look turdlover
Everyone dies oneday somehow so we're all cursed!!!!
Fuck off Its obvious this lesbian nobody doesnt know what shes going on about,and the disrespectful use of kennedys speech...
But if it makes you feel better then i'll say it
Shona Laing is world renowned and a world historic figure and noones heard of JFK,now go eat kiwi poop!!!
LookinIand 1 year ago
@LookinIand
I'm glad I'm not Lookinland
screamandshout100 1 year ago
@LookinIand
You know the problem with you Yanks? you have on your money 'in God we trust' yet you make gods out of everyone.
not to mention we all know what four letter word rythms with Yank
screamandshout100 1 year ago
@screamandshout100
jfk did a lot of good for example he worked for freedom for black ppl and if theres a God,he she it wouldve willed that
He was working towards making this a better world as many ppl had a vision for back then
LookinIand 1 year ago
@LookinIand Foolish Olivia Newton John loving person you are. ;) And shallow too. Look a wee bit deeper lookinland....lolol
simisenti 10 months ago
the Kennedys are world renowned public figures
shona laing is nobody
shona who?
LookinIand 1 year ago
Shona Laing always rocked. What a great role model for women in New Zealand. Shame her song didn't say "Glad I'm not an Indian Female". The 90 million aborted female foetus would scream out in accord. I am NOT anti-abortion, but selective Gender abortion makes me want to PUKE.
starquant 1 year ago
JFK,RFK,and Teddy were my heroes
SearchForTomorrow 1 year ago
@SearchForTomorrow YES!! and shona laingy waingy is from a menial island in the pacific and hardly anyones heard of her,tha stupid stuckup she male wanna be LOL
LookinIand 1 year ago
@LookinIand They say that misery loves company. There must be a group in your area you could join.
papamoabeach48 1 year ago
I'M GLAD I'M NOT A LAING
Lookinland 1 year ago
@Lookinland wanker
SpencerStreetStation 1 year ago
@SpencerStreetStation
I'M GLAD I'M NOT A LAING
LookinIand 1 year ago
Good song this one. Shona Laing was great. Haven't heard from her in ages, anyone got any news?
kabuya98 1 year ago
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kabuya98 1 year ago
I'm glad I don't have a bad mullet like that
fubeca12 1 year ago
An American president chewing gum.
What an innocence the world has lost.
wikiriwhi 1 year ago
Great song, but it is weird how much she looks like Mel Gibson in Mad Max (the original, not The Roadwarrior) except he didn't have the duck tail! I like the Obi wan Kenobe look though.
originalzombietooth 1 year ago
i bet you would sniff her undies asshole
930alpha 2 years ago
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She looks like a raging bull dyke!
heatseeker64 2 years ago
Good to see you're listening to what she's saying, rather than being superficial. She actually wrote the song after seeing some news piece on the Kennedys on the telly, and turning to her HUSBAND and saying "G.I.N.A.K." (hence the song of the same name).
mtflesruoytsacdaorb 2 years ago 2
she had no husband, she is a dyke so had a female partner!
prickett233 2 years ago
Oh. OK. Well, that makes it EVEN MORE important to listen to what she's saying, rather than being distracted by her appearance or her sexuality. It's a great ditty.
mtflesruoytsacdaorb 2 years ago 11
Wow... wholesale abuse of Fairlight keyboards and women with mullets. Glad some things from the 80s aren't around 20 years later. ;)
MohanndasChutney 2 years ago
fuck kennedys!!!thery are corrupts!!death usa!!long live communism!lLenin lives forever!
Leninsicklehammer 2 years ago
@Leninsicklehammer FUCK YOU ASS LICKER
TADL90 2 years ago 2
SOME people with the name Kennedy will take what you said as shit .watch your back commo pig rooter
elf1956 1 year ago
what a loser
wikiriwhi 1 year ago
IM GLAD IM NOT A LAING HAHA...
LookinIand 2 years ago
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SearchForTomorrow 2 years ago
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clarkemetalstrust 2 years ago
I focus on the positve things the Kennedys have done and say thank god for their political presence then and now
SearchForTomorrow 2 years ago
We all will die oneday,even Miss Laing will,so we're all cursed!
SearchForTomorrow 2 years ago
@SearchForTomorrow:
For old Joe Kennedy, dying wasn't a curse, it was an end to an exquisite torture he imposed on himself, and unto his seventh generation.
Or maybe it wasn't the end?
After all, he pretended to be a catholic?
herbgarratt 2 years ago
Cathlocism is a pretence
wikiriwhi 1 year ago
Martin Luther King,John Lennon,Ronald Reagan and many non Kennedys all got shot
Why she focus on Kennedys?
SearchForTomorrow 2 years ago
Because it was written years ago and she just wanted to sing about the Kennedy's. Perhaps you could write to her and ask her to do one about John Lennon but Imagine seems to do the trick in remembrance.
chucksfan1 2 years ago
Because the Kennedy's are the closest thing America has to royalty and unthinkable tragedy has been visited upon them over and over again. The burden of having the name Kennedy and the fear that goes along with it must be enormous. Even members of the family started to believe in a Kennedy curse. Its not a song about someone famous who got shot it's about a much larger concept. Don't oversimplify it.
stuffypuss 2 years ago
Thats my point again!!
I mean,lots of familys have tragedies!
JFK jnr isn't the only public figure to die in a plane crash
Edward isn't the first person to crash whilst drunk and kill his passenger
and the assassinations weren't the first political shootings.
Drug addiction happens to anyone!
I don't believe in no curse!
SearchForTomorrow 2 years ago
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SearchForTomorrow 2 years ago
@SearchForTomorrow
the song came out in the 80's it was a social commentary for that time period - still relevant now - great song then and still is
gaswampyank 2 years ago
this song ddn't get the attention it deserved. such a sad song..."wearing the fame, like a loaded gun, tied up with a rosary...." simply tear jerking and heartbreaking.
curtiscrush 2 years ago 2
Totally agree with you and couldn't understand why it didn't do more. Loved this song when it first came out and was wrapt to find it again here a few months ago.
cqsteve1 2 years ago
this song reminds me of my trip to germany because it was one of 25 songs they played on the planes stereo...i would time it perfectly so that i could hear this song over and over on the head phones.
curtiscrush 2 years ago
This song always makes me sad, especially around this time of the year.
Beautiful melody, though.
DNA1961 2 years ago
I'm looking for downloadable versions of Shona's albums "Tied To The Tracks" (1982) and "Genre"(1985) if anyone has them. Thanks!
sake008 2 years ago
if u read this shit shona...i rekon ur fukin cool...im not as old or wrinkly as u but i know what ur on about...u hate black jelly beans rite???????me too!!!! hello
stockcar4d 2 years ago
I love her lesbian mullet hair!
I wonder if she cut herself walking through that pampas/toi toi?
Great song!
lyndonnorton1981 2 years ago
lmao lesbian mullet hair isn't it just and the little toe jig dancing she does
fidelcat 2 years ago
RIP Teddy! We love you to Patrick! RI Resident
newwave1965 2 years ago
Dubs of Kennedy's great, great speeches ..
.. good song.
Intuitive lyrics ..
cheonmunka 2 years ago
She got special permission from the Kennedy's when she did the song to use the dubs...with their approval . Yes,great song,and a he was a great visionary....there's not many that can say they prevented a nuclear war.
saltydog45 2 years ago
After lunch, Miss Nelson resumed her reading of 'The Yearling' but had only gone a few minutes into it when the principle (this was 6th grade) opened the door and said, "Miss Nelson. Something has happened," and said it with such worry that everybody responded in kind.
I remember thinking that this was it, the nuclear war.
But instead, they sent us home, because President Kennedy had been assassinated.
Ashes in our mouths.
ArkadyRenkovich 2 years ago 2
wow, great storytelling, Ark. well done.
curtiscrush 2 years ago
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curtiscrush 2 years ago
I am in love with this hairstyle.
iTunesJunkie11 2 years ago 2
It's has a beautiful, haunting melody.
I remember the first time I heard this song in the 80's. I was totally entranced by the beauty of the music and her fantastic voice.
rpannier 2 years ago 9
terrifying mullet
4120Wade 2 years ago
very sad - yes I too thought of this after Ted's death. Ted will be very much missed.
nydazzle 2 years ago
you're beached as!
1stinkfist 2 years ago
This deserves more airplay. Thanks for posting.
madamshome 2 years ago 2
in light of ted kennedy's death the family released a statement to the press today declaring their happiness that shona laing is not a kennedy. the baldwin family were not available for comment as to whether they would approve shona's request to write im glad im not a baldwin.
bluehairspaz 2 years ago
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ArkadyRenkovich 2 years ago
exquisite sadness. a lot like America: missed opportunities to be a fully formed, compassionate nation, until now with the redneck ruin we are behind every other modern nation in the world, and falling like the fallen. (Now let's have a shriveled pnis hick baboon waddle in here to squat and do what u freaks do so well....)
gregrocker2 2 years ago 3
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It would suck to be Mary Jo Kopechne too!
radioactivenews 2 years ago
Funny thing.....Me Too !
habaneroo 2 years ago
after reading the news about Ted Kennedy, I thought about this song. Thanks for posting it.
drumbago 2 years ago
just like me when I heard...the very first thought was this song....I remember watching RTR when I first came out...
maryteatowel 2 years ago 2
know wonder the Dead Kennedy's (band) is famous
estherstillman 2 years ago
my god, another old almost forgotten high school song, thanks for posting! Great track.
ASkywalker1 2 years ago
Nice mullet, Shona!
Cem0305 2 years ago 2
Heard this once on the radio 20 years ago. Brilliant lyrics that made me weep. Tried to find it at the music stores but it was like nobody nobody else had ever heard of it. I thought of the song today for some reason, and the internet brought it to me in about 3 seconds. Still makes me weep for that poor blessed/cursed family.
bishmart 2 years ago 5
That's exactly what I wanted to write - hart to get infos...
Sabershausen 2 years ago
Great song!
carrionchild 2 years ago
burp
goliathtoad 2 years ago