The Meaning of American Pie
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Everyone,check out my comment/interpretation of the song on the other update of lonestarsound,what do you think?Does it make any sense?
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very nice job of ONE explanation - there are so many more - one thing McLean said is he didn't know he put so much into it - in other words - people put forth things that "they" think it means but McLean never really thought of.
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@Diablo4643 Wrong. If you look at the lyrics of the song you will see that it's spelled "Lennon", the reference to him reading a book on Marx is a play on words in relation to his differently spelt namesake.
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He was directing it at John Lennon, who was pitching the ideal of Communism during that time. Listen to his song "Imagine". It is speaking plainly and succinctly about the ideal...which, as we all know now, is impractical.
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Stop all of your Bitching it's a good video...Rock on
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@tony00165 - Madonna had a version?!? Jeez...
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It's a shame I only have one Favorites list to add this one to. Thanks for posting!
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@jeebiskebowski yes i know but Don Mclean still directed that verse to him
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No. Lenin died in the 20's, this has nothing to do with Lenin.
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lot of misinformation out there. the guy killed at Altamount was not prevented form 'shooting people' for heaven's sake, this is all on film. the Angels plain over-reacted, macho'ed out, and killed him.
the lennon reading marx was inded john in this song, not V.I. Lenin. that was the whole joke of that lyric. 'race music was a phrase from the 30's and earlier, not the 50's unless you lived in Mississippi. and so on
at 3:24 during the verse "And while Lenin read a book on Marx" you put a picture of John Lennon but it is actually Vladimir Lenin who read a book by Karl Marx "The Communist Manifesto" which lead him to create the soviet version of Communism...
Diablo4643 1 month ago 5
@at7004 the truck represented it at THAT time in the 50's and yeesh man whats with all the negativity? no need to go on a rant
TheMex90 6 months ago 3