Lesley Gore’s anthem seems like an appropriate protest to the Nanny State
Bookworm on Jan 11 2010 at 10:02 pm | Filed under: Just Because Music
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Given your headline, I KNEW it wasn’t going to be “It’s My Party.” Nor would it have been “Judy’s Turn to Cry.”
Only difference is that Obama/Pelosi/Reid definitely don’t want to put us “on display”, because they think we’re too ugly.
That brought a smile to my face.
The perfect anti-nanny anthem. Lesley always put across the right combination of sincerity, strength of character, and snarkiness. The persona in her songs, though heartbroken and devastated, instead of whimpering stood right up and got steely-spined just-plain mad at Johnny and Judy and the other thoughtless fools. But instead of turning that anger on them, she seemed to use it to sustain her until her antagonists, through own their lying and cheating, self-destructed–which she knew all along they would. As an unhappy nerd in junior high I found her songs reassuring and empowering. Thanks, bookworm, for showing us that they still are. It’s our country, and we’ll cry if we want to at the train wreck these spoiled brats are making of it, but I think–I hope–that in the end it’s going to be “Judy’s (Nancy’s/Harry’s/Barry’s) turn to cry!”