Atlanta has a new anthem (revisited)
While digging around the comments section of my website, I found that someone actually left a comment! Woohoo! I don’t normally respond to comments on the main page but this one attacks my view from an angle that I never intended to pursue. I have a problem with the song sucking, not the song being Hip Hop/R&B. I have no problem with Hip Hop and R&B music but I do have a problem with this song. Have you heard the song? Am I wrong in criticizing its poor choice of lyrics or equally poor production? For $8 million dollars someone could have written a song that brought more to the table than the initials that the city is known for. The other songs that I mentioned (Cleveland Rocks, New York NY) all tell a story about their city. There is no mention of the diverse sports teams, museums/aquarium, transportation, people, corporate headquarters, etc, etc, etc in Austin’s song. All I’m hearing is that “there’s no other place I’d rather be.” I had a professor in college that would hand this back with a big red WHY printed on it.
If anyone would like to read the lyrics to this fine piece of work, click MORE.
ATL, ATL
Ladies and gentlemen, you are now tuned into ATL’s finest, the world’s greatest
They say Atlanta is where you go to become your dreams
In a world that has room for opportunity
Something about Atlanta
Nothing like the love you feel in the streets
Such a long way we’ve come to live in peace
I love the A T L
More than any other place I’ve been around the world
They say Atlanta is the place where the young succeed
In a world that had no room for Martin Luther King
Only in Atlanta where the music makes you drop to your knees
There is no other place I’d rather be
That’s why I’m talking about the A T L
I love the A T L
I love the A T L
Comments
All our international transaction occurs in USD & not in INR. This occurs no matter whom we trade with. For example we buy crude oil from Saudi Arabia, yet we pay them in $ & not in Rial or INR. Why should we use $ in payment, why not INR or some other country be the trading currency. This not the case with India, all over the world they do this. Other dominant currency is euro. But why should international monetory be controled by rich nations, why not it be poor nation. Why should a fate of one country be decided by other country ?
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