The Macaroni in ‘Yankee Doodle’
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The Macaroni in ‘Yankee Doodle’
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#2I remember seeing the analogy made that "stuck a feather in his cap and called it macaroni" could be translated into a modern context as "wrote a G on his belt and called it Gucci".
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#3> And with the girls be handy
I'd never really given much thought to what this line meant but knowing the context it's pretty gross.
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#4"In a society that emphasized individuality, it is not hard to imagine that they became folk heroes of a kind—and that many of the people who laughed at them felt a tug of longing for the freedom with which they lived."
This is similar to the canard that "your bully is just jealous of your ." It's codswallop: more like to be the normal reaction to a trend taken "too far," as it were, and something like the backlash one thinks of regarding the grunge, goth, "emo", and "hipster" fads. Nobody was jealous of the supposed freedom that these people had, so much as they were amused (or appalled) at the absurd lack of introspection and awareness they exhibited by latching onto a played out trend.
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#5"In a society that emphasized individuality, it is not hard to imagine that they became folk heroes of a kind—and that many of the people who laughed at them felt a tug of longing for the freedom with which they lived." This is similar to the canard that "your bully is just jealous of your ." It's codswallop: more like to be the normal reaction to a trend taken "too far," as it were, and something like the backlash o…
Grunge, goth, emo, hipster “fads” still exist and have, to a greater or lesser degree, been absorbed into mainstream style and culture. Maybe there’s more to the argument than simple “codswallop.”
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#6I remember seeing the analogy made that "stuck a feather in his cap and called it macaroni" could be translated into a modern context as "wrote a G on his belt and called it Gucci".
Oh, interesting! I'd seen the "macaroni" articles before, but until your comment I had not realized the song is making fun of the character's low-effort mimicry.
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#7cheugy
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#8> And with the girls be handy I'd never really given much thought to what this line meant but knowing the context it's pretty gross.
I think "handy" may have an ordinary meaning here of "available". Ironically suggesting that women will fall for Yankee Doodle, so he'd best make himself available to their adoring attention.
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#9"In a society that emphasized individuality, it is not hard to imagine that they became folk heroes of a kind—and that many of the people who laughed at them felt a tug of longing for the freedom with which they lived." This is similar to the canard that "your bully is just jealous of your ." It's codswallop: more like to be the normal reaction to a trend taken "too far," as it were, and something like the backlash o…
That’s an interesting categorization of the sub-cultures/scenes you listed. Are there any sub-cultures you would classify as “other” (in the sense of being other than the status quo of its era) and having introspection and awareness?
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#10> And with the girls be handy I'd never really given much thought to what this line meant but knowing the context it's pretty gross.
It's saying the ladies like him. That's not gross at all. The pathologizing of heterosexuality seems to have roots in American Protestantism.