The fact that she's "torn her dress" indicates she started off with one prior to her personality change. The 1983 U2 album War includes the song "Sunday Bloody Sunday", a lament for the Northern Ireland troubles whose title alludes to the 1972 Bloody Sunday shooting of Catholic demonstrators by British soldiers. My interpretation of the song is its talking about a tomboy who is not sure about her identity. clearly this song is about David Bowie's influences and relationships, specifically Lou Reed and Andy Warhol and the gender bending culture of Warhols' 'factory' which heavily influenced David and Angie's relationship and Bowie's own cross dressing and gender bending adventures. During the 1970s, Irish comedian Dermot Morgan lampooned both the Wolfe Tones and the clichés of Irish rebel songs by singing about the martyrdom of Fido, a dog who saves his IRA master by eating a hand grenade during a search of the house by the Black and Tans during the Irish War of Independence. [1] However, the subject matter is not confined to Irish history, and includes the exploits of the Irish Brigades who fought for the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War, and also those who fought during the American Civil War. More recently, Derek Warfield's music was banned from Aer Lingus flights, after the Ulster Unionist politician Roy Beggs Jr compared his songs to the speeches of Osama bin Laden. [citation needed]. this is Bowies' response to Lou Reed's 'walk on the wild side' which shares the same origin and influences. Song meanings ©2003-2020 lyricinterpretations.com. Like her everyone around her is confused about her identity except the person who accepts her for who she is. adunit_id: 100001411, It's about a drag queen groupy that follows a band...His mom hates that. [2] Many of the more popular acts recently such as Saoirse, Éire Óg, Athenrye, Shebeen,Mise Éire and Pádraig Mór are from Glasgow. artist: "David Bowie", I was a wild child tomboy. Music of this genre has often courted controversy with some of this music effectively banned from the airwaves in the Republic of Ireland in the 1980s. The Drums Were Beating), about, Up the Provos (About Commadante Francis Hughes), This page was last edited on 20 June 2020, at 12:41. song: "Rebel Rebel", "When they count up the dudes indicates she's not at all monogamous. All lyrics are property and copyright of their owners. Created: 08 July 2002. There are also some songs that express sorrow over war (from a Republican perspective), such as Only our rivers run free, and some have been covered by bands that have tweaked lyrics to be explicitly anti-war, such as the cover of The Patriot Game by Scottish group The Bluebells. In a parody of Thomas Osborne Davis' famous rebel song A Nation Once Again, Morgan climaxed by singing the words: "Another martyr for old Ireland, by Britannia cruelly slain! [11] These words are included in the version on Under a Blood Red Sky, the 1983 live album of the War Tour. Songs about older rebellions were long popular with most Irish nationalists; more recent songs are associated with supporters of physical force Irish republicanism. the song also makes a soft reference to Bowie’s bisexuality, with “you like me, and i like it all”, saying he likes the subject in all their non-traditional gender. Sent to JITR by Gwenaelle Glotin Here's a brief but interesting review about "This IS A Rebel Song", written by Steven Wells and published in the NME this week ( for the completists, it also includes a small picture of Sinead! This IS A Rebel Song - NME review. It's about a young boy and his girlfriend and him letting her know she's still special even though she is different than everyone else. An Alsatian once again! maybe they’re non-binary or gender fluid, tho i doubt Bowie would’ve had those words in mind when he wrote the song. div_id: "cf_async_" + Math.floor((Math.random() * 999999999)) And so, a rebel. }; a big part of the theme is how most people seem not to understand the subject— their mother is confused by them, and as Bowie says, “they put you down, they say i’m wrong”... but Bowie sings as a lover, and he loves the subject, calamity’s child, for all they are, as everything they are.
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