"Sweet Home, Alabama" is a Southern good ol' boys torch song where they praise Governor George Wallace and get mad at another white dude for calling out white racists, how is "Sweet Caroline" possibly a serious contender for whitest song ever
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Don't get me wrong, "Sweet Caroline" is white But "praise segregationist Governor Wallace not once but twice in the course of a single song" is a special kind of whitepic.twitter.com/ArIuoYJu5i
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Also, those lyrics complaining about Neil Young shit talking the South's "Southern Man" in "Sweet Home Alabama?" It refers to Neil Young's rendition of "Southern Man," a song by Merry Clayton-- a Black woman-- about the segregationist south.pic.twitter.com/OvrlIdQI30
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Replying to @gwensnyderPHL
Didn't know Southern Man was a cover. I'm gonna have to find the original.
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Replying to @at12tone
Not sure if it's a cover or just written by her (she mostly sang backup vocals), but I'd be curious, too.
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Neil Young wrote the song and performed it in 1970, Clayton covered it in 1971 She also, for what it's worth, sang backup vocals on Sweet Home Alabama
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