First published at 12:54 UTC on October 29th, 2019.
As mentioned in my last upload, I am doing some Elvis songs this weekend.
While having a second listen to the original version of this song, released in 1968 and then re-mixed in 2001, I was appalled by the attitude towards women that the song advo…
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As mentioned in my last upload, I am doing some Elvis songs this weekend.
While having a second listen to the original version of this song, released in 1968 and then re-mixed in 2001, I was appalled by the attitude towards women that the song advocates. I won't link the original song or lyrics, but it is extra shocking that nothing on the Wikipedia page for the song mentions this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Little_Less_Conversation
In any case, my re-written lyrics (which are probably hard to make out) are here:
A little more conversation, that’s the attraction
Your loquacious elocution is so amazing to me,
A little more left a little less right
With someone like you I can talk all night,
Close your book open up your mouth and criticize me
Philosophize me, Lady
Close your eyes and listen to the music
You have great selection of CDs
The record player can you show how to use it
I’d like to hear your Joni Mitchell please,
You know that I’m not tired of talking
I’ll put on the kettle, or we could go walking,
Come on, come on (Come on, come on) x 4
We speculate, you’re articulate
We contemplate, we conversate,
Hopefully the subservient, silent woman without an opinion is a thing of the past.
Copyright of the original song owned by RCA, Mac Davis and Billy Strange.
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