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Mia Katherine Zapata (August 25, 1965 – July 7, 1993) was an American musician who was the lead singer for the Seattle punk band The Gits.After gaining praise in the emerging grunge scene, Zapata was murdered in 1993 while on her way home from a music venue, at age 27. [2]
The song's lyrics establish a threatening tone towards the singer's unnamed girlfriend (referred to throughout the song as "little girl"), claiming "I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man." The line was taken from an early Elvis Presley song, "Baby Let's Play House" (written by Arthur Gunter). [2] [3]
The song paints a picture of a Texas family that verges on caricature, with the narrator describing his tattooed father as 'veteran proud' and deeming his oldest sister 'a first-rate whore'. The song further alienated Coe from the country mainstream and kick-started accusations that he was a racist, a charge he always vehemently denied.
"This Year's Girl" is a song written by new wave musician Elvis Costello and performed by Costello and the Attractions for his 1978 album This Year's Model.Inspired by the Rolling Stones song "Stupid Girl", the song's lyrics criticizing fashion saw some critics allege misogyny, a theme which Costello strongly denied was present in the song in subsequent interviews.
On his weekends, Elvis and Anita spent time in Fadal's house in Waco. Fadal later gave an interview to the state of Texas archives, in which he says Anita and Elvis had such a close relationship, that everybody expected them to get married, and were surprised when it didn't work out that way.
And, last but not least in my heart, some random Knoxville connections to the song about Knoxville: Elvis Costello has played "Knoxville Girl" twice in Knoxville, at the Tennessee Theatre in 2005 ...
According to Susan M. Doll in her book Understanding Elvis, the song "features a common characteristic of country music — the passive acceptance of the singer's fate and the subsequent melancholy it brings," as the person who sings the song "passively resigns himself to the fact" that his girl is gone. [8] Musically, it is a rockabilly ballad.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department announced Friday that the murder of Karen Klaas, the ex-wife of f Righteous Brothers' singer Bill Medley, has been solved 41 years later by DNA evidence