Published on Jun 21, 2011 by PaulSimonVEVO
Music video by Paul Simon performing The Boy In The Bubble. (C) 2011 Paul Simon under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment
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@andres6868 so true, I heard this track the other day after many years and the lyrics gave me goose bumps.
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Graceland was one of the most important albums of the 1980s, both artistically and politically. Though some said that he was making money off the plight of black S Africa, others knew that it bred more awareness to the suffering than anything else in the music world.
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The lyrics are amazingly prescient. If anything, it describes our society in 2012 better than the society in 1986.
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"stacatto signals of constant information"...what a nice turn of phrase. And this was before the creation of the World Wide Web.
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WHY THE HECK are people mentioning Rebecca Black and Paul Simon in the same comment? OK, so they're both musical artists. End of comparison. Ms Black has not once, in her entire life, mentioned Mr Simon or implied that she's better than he is. You guys comparing the two are the typical then-vs-now commenters. Why would you compare an 80s-90s artist with a current one? You wouldn't compare Mozart with Eminem. Times change: get over it. You CAN love both, you know.
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@nighthawk0490 Typical time-biased comment. Why are you comparing a decades-established artist with one representing the current zeitgeist but just starting out? Have to say, I'm 28 and have grown up on Paul Simon - I totally adore his solo stuff -- but I'd never compare it to music today, because that's a logical fail. Can't we like both? You say you miss "the old days"... well, if you mean the 1980s, jeez... that decade invented commercialist shit. Get off your timebound high horse already.
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That fretless bass sounds fucking awesome!
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I bloody love this song!!!
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This is my favorite track from Graceland. The lyrics are so serious and they are put up against such upbeat music. The combination is remarkable.
As of 1/16/2012, two people were in a bubble.
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Intellectual lyrics?! lol I think that Paul Simon should've sung about friday and have grammatical errors and nonsensical lyrics. After all, that's what successful artists do today... Ahh I miss the old days... where you needed to have talent... and be smarter than a fifth grader lyrically... Paul Simon you are a BEAST!
nighthawk0490 6 months ago 41
@nighthawk0490 lucky, you got to live in a time perid with good music like paul simon. i am stuck with this crapy girl who knows the days of the week. :p
ZurpCow 6 months ago 31