It was terrible when it came out and it was terrible when Ronald Reagan got its lowest-degree-of-difficulty irony wrong and it stayed terrible. It is terrible as Respected Songwriter Music and it is terrible as a Catchy Pop Hit. It is like being HIT in the FOREhead BROther HIT in the FOREhead BROther over and over and over.
It rhymes "Saigon" with "arms."
To hell with this song. It stinks.
Why do people still use the word “suck” to indicate a negative opinion? It’s so dumb.
I mean, you’re saying: This song is so bad that it essentially sucks dick. Because sucking dick is a very bad thing. That’s the etymology!
“Stinks” is fine, though.
Just construe it as short for "sucks shit through a straw."
Ha. Fair enough.
This song, on the other hand...
I genuinely might not have heard this song in 29 years before it came on in sequence as the album played just now, and I was not at all unhappy to hear it.
And now I have heard this:
