Well I mean the song is ironic, isn't it I think Rupert Holmes actually does know that both characters in this song are jerks and the heartwarming ending is deeply unrealistichttps://twitter.com/GailSimone/status/1366406886027788289 …
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I think I did a thread before about what a great comedy scenario it would be for the two of them to, like, continue carrying on an "affair" for months while passive-aggressively pretending to not recognize each other and waiting for the other one to break
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Spending all their dates together talking shit about their horrible spouses etc
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What if they also used the scenario to try out all the things they'd been wanting to do and it turned out they each only thought the other was boring because both were scared to ask for the really kinky stuff?
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I have seen a proposal to rescue the Piña Colada Song by making it about an apparently cishet couple both in the closet about being queer and trans
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this is where my brain went to cope with the song being on the in-store play list at work. "I knew her smile in instant" is actually sweet if it's the narrator's first time seeing her as herself, and there's more depth to the internalized misogyny "if you have half a brain"
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Replying to @TrashBrainTrash @N7IRL
"If you have half a brain" was originally in the newspaper ad the wife wrote, addressed to the men she expected to reply, so I'm not sure it's misogynistic in this context
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I didn't want to think about the lyrics that hard, I don't remember who's "not into yoga" and health food, I get a "not like other girls" read from it. at the very least they both seem kind of insufferable
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The funny thing is the one thing everyone remembers, the piña coladas, is a drink Rupert Holmes hates ("It tastes like kaopectate") but he put it in because it was the only cocktail that fit the meter
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Long island iced tea might have fit but without the same flow
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Well yeah and tbf it's not *just* that, "pina coladas" puts the image in your head of going on a Caribbean vacation, it's a cocktail associated with the idea of running away/escaping
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