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Song meaning and their modern or male/female equivalent

Olishi4 · 2016-08-01 15:41:25

Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love" and Shania Twain's "Man I Fell Like a Woman". When I was a kid, I used to wonder why Robert Palmer had all the girls dressed the same, dancing the same and yet the women in the video are quite different, some very slim, curvy etc. Could he have been saying that all women are basically the…

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Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love" and Shania Twain's "Man I Fell Like a Woman".

When I was a kid, I used to wonder why Robert Palmer had all the girls dressed the same, dancing the same and yet the women in the video are quite different, some very slim, curvy etc. Could he have been saying that all women are basically the same? I do like Addicted to Love and I'm not really a Shania Twain fan, but I have to give her credit for her take and joke retaliation to his video and song.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XcATvu5f9vE

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJL4UGSbeFg

I was listening to The Fine Young Cannibals, "She Drives Me Crazy" and trying to think of an equivalent or similar meaning song by a woman. I guess Beyonce, "Crazy in Love" might fit?

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