Originally Posted by Mark Kaufman
Originally Posted by Polly Hager

However, none of you MEN "get" Step to the Side at all. ...

You MEN are so basic and primal! You hear a song like "Step to the Side" and immediately think, "Oh, she must be PMSing." The only reason you like Allanis Morrisette is because she says lines like "Go down on you in a theater" and "...scratch my nails down someone else's back..." (you're picturing her having sex). When I wrote "If You Could", the only line men remembered was "When we make love to eachother, would you look into my eyes". I've actually been told it's repetitive! NO IT'S NOT! I'm asking specific, equally important but VERY DIFFERENT questions about a potential relationship, but only women "get it". Men hear "When we make love to eachother..." and then "BLAH, BLAH, BLAH" after that because there's not enough sexual content to hold their attention.

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Anyway, it dawned on me that most men won't "get" Step to the Side..


I hate to be THAT GUY, but I never felt any of these things, and I'll bet a lot of other men didn't either. Not all men think the same, you know. I don't even watch sports! So, all I'm sayin' is, do ya have to play the All Men Are Alike card? It's kinda like saying All Women Are Alike, which tends to offend pretty much All Women. I'm just sayin...


smile Yeah that's pretty much a generalized one way of thinking approach, technically it's just "defensive"

But actually we are not MEN lol we are SONGWRITERS and let me tell you when you write songs,who and what you are can have ZERO to so with what your writing. People tell me all the time "hey I'm from Brooklyn just like, MAN i can tell you really get what it's like being a Brooklynite" I smile and say...

Wasn't born there, never GO there, been there 5 times at night in as bar to gig.... SO!!!!
That's what creative writers do, I could have wrote "WildFire" and never owned a horse.
And a MAN wrote "Like A Virgin" and I think "Material Girl" as well.
So that whole point is completely irrelevant 100% not the case.

You can take any sex lines OUT (all two) of Alanis's song and it is still some of the freshest,sharpest,clever and most effective songwriting I have ever come across.
I'm not thinking like a mindless man here we are songwriters... smile

Just saying! lol

Thanks!
Peace Mike
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