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Post by at40petebattistini on Jan 24, 2024 17:49:50 GMT -5
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jan 25, 2024 10:40:14 GMT -5
Ironic Peteski considering last week's 1980 show featured Casey's tribute to her.
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Post by mrjukebox on Jan 28, 2024 18:55:38 GMT -5
"Brand New Key" was Melanie's biggest hit-It stayed at # 1 for three weeks:12/25/71-1/8/72-However,there were some radio stations that refused to play it due to the suggestive nature of the lyrics.
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Post by 1finemrg on Jan 28, 2024 19:42:15 GMT -5
Melanie to Jason P. Woodbury, Phoenix New Times 1/19/12 regarding "Brand New Key":
I don't think I was thinking of how clever I was when I was writing it. I was having that kind of memory that came back to me in a big woosh of memory. I was on a fast, and when I broke the fast I was very carefully going back to eating some cooked carrot or [something]. You've gone 27 days of not eating you don't want to shock your system. So I was going back to eating and this fasting guru said "Your perfect diet will occur to you; you'll sense what you are supposed to have," and I was about a week after the fast, and I was going to a flea market at 5 in the morning. On the way back, I smelled this incredible smell. This aroma of something.
It was McDonald's. I went and had some McDonald's, after being a vegetarian for four years and then fasting for 27 days -- it just seemed right. So I went and I had the whole thing, the combo. No sooner had I finished that last bite I wrote "Brand New Key." That's the absolute truth. It had no other inspiration, I wasn't thinking I wasn't crafting. Lyrics are funny. When I look at it - when I analyze it from afar, it's like, 'Wow, all those innuendos and symbolic keys [laughs] all that Freudian stuff. It wasn't premeditated at all. I was remembering roller skating when I was little. Just round the time I was learning to ride a two wheeler, just letting go and knowing there wasn't anyone holding me. Just falling down, and getting back up, and going down suicide hill.
It got banned, and it got interpreted as a drug song. A "key" is a kilo. And...you know, I could say that it couldn't be further from the truth, but I can't say that it's not true. Because sometimes you do things beyond your consciousness. I could very well have been putting that stuff there. Maybe they were right. Maybe they should have banned it.
That was the kiss of death for me as far as being taken as anybody who had any social commentary. All the women who were arriving, you had to be very full of angst, and angular. I was too cherubic, and "Brand New Key" was so cute. It kind of doomed me to be cute.
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Post by trekkielo on Feb 20, 2024 10:24:24 GMT -5
May Melanie rest in peace  She also wrote and sang "Look What They've Done to My Song Ma" that was covered by the New Seekers who got it to #14 on AT40 in 1970.  |
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