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That’s No List

I have spent many an hour wandering the archives of Mental Floss and I highly recommend it for wating time or if you’re just bored. But I ran across one of their lists and it struck me (and all the commenters) as highly incomplete.

The title of the list is “8 songs inspired by Real Life Women”. Instantly my mind conjures up several. But are any of these on the list? HELL NO. Instead there are songs that, admitedly, I had no idea were (possibly) inspired by real women, but some of the reasons? Mind boggling.

Elton’s John’s “Philadelphia Freedom”, written for Billie Jean King because she gave him a track suit? Beethoven’s “Fur Elise”, they’re really listing a CLASSICAL song???? What the hell were they thinking??? Now the others listed, I can kind of see. They have “Oh Carol” by Neil Sedaka, “Oh Mama” by Tupac, “It Ain’t Me Babe” by Bob Dylan, “Our House” by Graham Nash and two songs that did come to mind when I saw the list; “Lola” by the Kinks and “867-5309/Jenny” by Tommy Tutone.

But this doesn’t include some of the more obvious and in my mind famous songs that are inspired by real women. Where’s Clapton’s “Layla”? Or “My Sharona” by the Knack? “Rosana” by Toto? “Donna” by Ritchie Valens? The comments to this article list quite a few more, but honestly? How on earth could the author of this list forget such obvious songs? It’s a travesty and speaks to either their obliviousness of pop culture or lack of musical education. If the list had been “8 songs you didn’t know were inspired by real women”, I might have found it in my heart to forgive them. But no, it’s touted as a list of songs that we should all be able to know and recognize as inspired by said women and well frankly, it isn’t.

If you’ll excuse me, I need to go find my list of MP3’s and make my own playlist of the songs that are quite obviously missing from this list.

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