We just laughed like hell and said, 'Ain't that funny.' We love Neil Young. What does mastering a song mean Mastering a song involves taking a mix and putting the final touches on it by elevating certain sonic characteristics. "We wrote 'Sweet Home Alabama' as a joke," Van Zant clarified a few years following the release. FOR 15 years, Missy Elliott fans have mumbled their way through Work It but now someone has revealed what the lyrics really mean.
"We're Southern rebels but, more than that, we know the difference between right and wrong." In fact, those "boos" are thought to imply that the band disagreed with Wallace's politics-and that bit about Watergate seems to be a pointed remark about the hypocrisy of the North, which had its own problems, too.īy all accounts, there was no real "feud" between the artists. "We thought Neil was shooting all the ducks in order to kill one or two," Van Zant later said. This song is performed by Lucy Gray Baird during her interview before the. As a 17 year old in a 50 year old body (in other words, an aging Boomer), I have forgotten the meaning of the title of the Cream song 'SWALABR.' I know that it's an abbreviation for something very simple, but the brain cells that used to hold that information have disintegrated (must have been the '80s). The most common mean is the arithmetic mean, which is calculated by adding all of the values together, then dividing by the number of values. Besides the mean, there are other kinds of average, and there are also a few kinds of mean. The portion of the song referring to Governor George Wallace in particular made some believe that Lynyrd Skynyrd disagreed with desegregation, seeing as how the governor stood for " segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever".īut others interpreted the lyrics as a reminder to Young that not all Southerners are the same. Nothing you can take from me was ever worth keeping The Ballad of Lucy Gray Baird. In mathematics and statistics, the mean is a kind of average. "In Birmingham they love the Gov'nor, boo boo, boo/ Now we all did what we could do/ Now Watergate does not bother me/ Does your conscience bother you?/ Tell the truth"