Really? It was written about Bernie Taupin’s first wife in 1971. Love that song.
@JHS you are a true fan! Black Thought in my opinion is the most underrated MC of our time!
I love Kendrick, he had one of the best Grammy performances I’ve seen in 2014 with Imagine Dragons, a year in which he was also robbed.
Bernie Taupin denies that it is about his first wife.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/search?index=books&linkCode=qs&keywords=9780307496232
It’s probably not an appropriate father-daughter first wedding dance, but “sexual exploitation” is a reach IMO.
As attributed to Freud: Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Tiny Dancer is a song about sleeping with a groupie. Even if you marry her – and Taupin didn’t marry his first wife for long – it’s a little creepy-crawly for me.
I don’t find the lyrics creepy to Tiny Dancer at all. Even less do I find it to be about “sexual exploitation.” Where are you coming up with that?
According to Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_Dancer
I followed the links on the sources used for that statement, and it leads to an audio recording where Bernie confirms that though he dedicated the song to his first wife, it was not written about her. He even goes so far as to say that when Elton said this song was written about his girlfriend, Elton “had it wrong.” He states that he found the women in California in 1970 to be so refreshing in contrast to what he was used to-“ethereal,” “radiating sunshine,” “sexy,” who would both “mother you” as well as “sleep with you.”
He spoke of these women as those he met in the clothes stores, bars, restaurants, clubs, etc., not necessarily “groupies,” and definitely not necessarily any one particular woman. And as opposed to “sexual exploitation,” the way he describes it sounds very much like consensual, mutual attractions.
It’s a beautiful song with lovely lyrics…not creepy at all.
We’ll have to agree to disagree. In my mind, if you are the “seamstress for the band,” and standing backstage mouthing the words and humming the melody, and you’re all ethereal and fairyish . . . you’re probably a groupie. And there’s a significant power differential, which makes the “consensual, mutual attractions” questionable. Which the whole “tiny dancer in my hand” image really drives home.
Look, I grew up with this song, too. I never was that much of an Elton John fan, but I always liked this one. There are lots and lots of love songs about groupies, some of them much, much worse than this, that I grew up loving, too, and still respond to emotionally. (“Sugar Magnolia,” anyone? “Sisters of Mercy”? “Up On Cripple Creek”?) But I wouldn’t perform them right after (or before) Kesha and her army of pop waifs wailing their curses at Dr. Luke.
It’s a tough climate now. I can see where you’re coming from.
We certainly will.
and at the hypocrisy continues – how many decades before they walk the talk? All four men nominated for best album got to perform…
https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/29/entertainment/grammys-2018-gender-gap/index.html
Ok…I thought for the 60th year…the emcee should have been a better choice…and better. I can’t even remember his name…he made no positive impression at all. I thought he was a dud.
He was really good last year – probably the best I’ve ever seen. This year . . . not.
James Corden. The NBC Late Late Show. Really talented and funny. Give yourself a treat and watch some of his Carpool Karaoke bits on YouTube.