So the song this week is “What’s Up” by 4 Non-Blondes. It’s a musical tribute to befuddlement and I thought that Total Recall would be a good pic to use. Poor Quaid. He doesn’t know WHAT’S going on! And the more I watched this video the more I realized that the band kind of looks like they got dressed by me if I were going to make a Mad Max movie. And I somehow had Boy George in it.
I’m not going to pretend that I know what the song is about but I assume that since it was the 90’s (1992 to be exact) there was a lot of angst about all the Gulf Wars and shit and kids just needed to let everyone know how complicated they were. But then the Mad Hatter lady says that she is praying for “Revolution”. What kind? Industrial? Was she calling for the Internet to be invented? Maybe she was talking about Prince’s band. Actually, that makes a lot more sense. I’m going to go with that. And if you ever want to be in a Mad Max movie, let me know. I’ll totally let you be in mine. You can take Boy George’s part (he’s sort of weird). Video and lyrics after the jump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NXnxTNIWkc
Twenty – five years and my life is still
Trying to get up that great big hill of hope
For a destination
And I realized quickly when I knew I should
That the world was made up of this brotherhood of man
For whatever that means
And so I cry sometimes
When I’m lying in bed
Just to get it all out
What’s in my head
And I am feeling a little peculiar
And so I wake in the morning
And I step outside
And I take a deep breath and I get real high
And I scream at the top of my lungs
What’s going on?
And I say, hey hey hey hey
I said hey, what’s going on?
Ooh, ooh ooh
And I try, oh my god do I try
I try all the time, in this institution
And I pray, oh my god do I pray
I pray every single day
For a revolution
And so I cry sometimes
When I’m lying in bed
Just to get it all out
What’s in my head
And I am feeling a little peculiar
And so I wake in the morning
And I step outside
And I take a deep breath and I get real high
And I scream at the top of my lungs
What’s going on?
And I say, hey hey hey hey
I said hey, what’s going on?
Twenty – five years and my life is still
Trying to get up that great big hill of hope
For a destination
I was heard this song in spanish… I think I liked that version was better. That… and the chicks singing it were muy caliente! Lookin’ like they were smuggling two midget lucha libre wrestlers under their shirts… while running the border. Unlike the lame chick that sings the original version. I hate chicks with nose rings.. makes me want to chain their face to a bikerack.
I remember this song too! I swear, you pick all the songs I used to listen to.
I was thinking this morning that you should have done “Independence Day” by Martina McBride.
Speaking on Independence Day.. remember that movie with Will Smith. That movie was tha shit back in the day! “WELCOME TO EARTH!” LOL. He’s got big ass ears, that goofy looking bastard.
That was the best line in the whole movie.
For the record, though, I was more into Harry Connick, Jr. than Will Smith.
I thought they were a good pairing.. too bad they killed him off.
I used to love this song and bought the cassette back in 1992. I loved the film Total Recall and I’m gutted they want to remake it.
#1. I get up and say the same thing “what’s going on” Once, period.
#2. 25 and “Trying to get up that great big hill of hope
For a destination.” come on bitch your making a muzic video and you have a hit song. Get a grip.
#3. She is frickin HOT in a Stevie Nicks weird kinda way.
#4. I am a hetro Male and I think ‘The Boy’ was de bomb!
Happy 4th and don’t keep your lit sparklers to close to the package!