{"id":36899,"date":"2019-01-15T02:45:31","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T02:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=36899"},"modified":"2019-01-15T02:47:27","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T02:47:27","slug":"english-sheryl-crow-a-change-would-do-you-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-sheryl-crow-a-change-would-do-you-good\/","title":{"rendered":"English: Sheryl Crow: &#8220;A Change Would Do You Good&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about lyrics: the tutor reflects on a few lines from Sheryl Crow.<\/h2>\n\n<p>\nSheryl Crow&#8217;s lyrics have caught my attention numerous times. Her song &#8220;A Change Would Do You Good&#8221; contains a few examples.\n<\/p><p>\n&#8220;Wear your fake fur on the inside&#8221; is a fantastic characterization of political correctness. The fur is fake, so even to a person against using animal fur, it&#8217;s blameless. However, the wearer is afraid of being <em>perceived<\/em> as someone who wears real fur. Therefore, just buying fake (instead of real) fur is not enough; they need to hide their fake fur, as well.\n<\/p><p>\n\n&#8220;&#8230;everybody wants more&#8221; is a line so true, it&#8217;s surprising I can&#8217;t recall anyone singing it before Sheryl Crow. Sometimes, an artist can notice an obvious fact that seemingly eludes everyone else.\n<\/p><p>\n\n\n&#8220;A Change Would Do You Good&#8221; was written by Sheryl Crow, Jeff Trott and Brian MacLeod. To my mind, the song could be perceived as a bit dismissive and\/or condescending. However, its point about fake fur elevates it above just another hit.\n<\/p><p>\n\nSource:\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.songfacts.com\/facts\/sheryl-crow\/a-change-would-do-you-good\">songfacts.com<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about lyrics: the tutor reflects on a few lines from Sheryl Crow. Sheryl Crow&#8217;s lyrics have caught my attention numerous times. Her song &#8220;A Change Would Do You Good&#8221; contains a few examples. &#8220;Wear your fake fur on the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-sheryl-crow-a-change-would-do-you-good\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English: Sheryl Crow: &#8220;A Change Would Do You Good&#8221;<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2710],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36899"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36905,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36899\/revisions\/36905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}