{"id":47,"date":"2005-11-02T03:14:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-02T03:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/?p=47"},"modified":"2017-12-11T15:19:40","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T23:19:40","slug":"stupid-shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/2005\/11\/02\/stupid-shoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Stupid Shoes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Stupid
\nO<\/span>kay… this song is… well, stupid.<\/span>
\nAnd I don’t mean “good” stupid.<\/p>\n

I was a hippie kid and went barefoot year round as soon as I got into college. The concept of fancy clothes and shoes was as foreign to me as a Mai Tai to an eskimo.<\/p>\n

But at some point, I became aware of the power of shoes over certain women — and I became aware that there were certain men who would callously wield that power, dangling obscenely expensive, obscenely uncomfortable — and, ultimately, obscenely stupid <\/span>— shoes in front of their helpless objects of desire, enthralling them in a way which seemed to smack of a dark and mysterious magic, as to the nature of which I could only speculate.<\/p>\n\n

[DISCLAIMER<\/strong>: This song is sung from the point of view of a protagonist who appears to be a sadist and a dangerous sociopath who will stop at little to achieve his sick ambitions — namely, pleasing the unseen girlfriend\/wife he addresses throughout the song. It contains lyrics with threats of cruelty to animals as well as ransom kidnapping. We would like to make this very clear: AYoS in no way endorses threats of cruelty to animals or the kidnapping the heirs of large, industrial fortunes. Unless there’s a really, really good reason.]<\/p>\n

 This song is so<\/span> stupid, I’m not even going to post the lyrics. And look at the crap I have<\/span> posted already. Think about that.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay… this song is… well, stupid. And I don’t mean “good” stupid. I was a hippie kid and went barefoot year round as soon as I got into college. The concept of fancy clothes and shoes was as foreign to me as a Mai Tai to an eskimo. But at some point, I became aware […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,340],"tags":[667,666],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2507,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/2507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}