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Subido el 15 de julio de 2023 por Celia Jean M.

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So the first line, a long, long time ago. 00:00:00
You might hear this and think of Star Wars, 00:00:01
but as I said, this is from 1971, 00:00:05
and Star Wars, A New Hope was first released in 1977. 00:00:08
So perhaps George Lucas was influenced by Don McLean, 00:00:13
but not the other way around. 00:00:17
But what we can say with this, a long, long time ago, 00:00:20
I can still remember, 00:00:23
is that obviously he's not talking about 1971. 00:00:25
He's talking about something 00:00:28
that happened farther in the past, 00:00:29
and I'm going to give you a clue 00:00:30
and tell you that it's about 1959. 00:00:32
And obviously, 12 years have passed since then, 00:00:35
so maybe his memory could be faded, 00:00:39
but no, he still remembers 00:00:44
how the music used to make him smile. 00:00:47
Now, the use of the word used to here should be important 00:00:50
because that's something that was true in the past, 00:00:54
but isn't true anymore. 00:00:57
So music used to make him smile, but now it doesn't. 00:00:58
Now in 1971, he doesn't have that feeling 00:01:01
with music anymore, 00:01:05
and that's what this whole song is going to be about, 00:01:06
this loss of innocence in American music. 00:01:08
All right, then these next three lines go together, 00:01:13
I think, quite well. 00:01:15
Just think when you were a child 00:01:17
and you saw a football star on TV 00:01:18
and you thought, I'm going to grow up 00:01:21
and I'm going to be a football star 00:01:22
and I'm going to be even better than him, 00:01:23
or I'm going to be an astronaut 00:01:25
and I'm going to go to Mars and to the moon. 00:01:27
Children are always inspired by our parents, 00:01:30
by people on TV, and in this case, 00:01:33
John McClane was really influenced 00:01:37
by the musicians of his time, 00:01:39
the ones who were always on the radio and even on TV 00:01:41
because television was becoming popular 00:01:44
in the 1950s and 60s. 00:01:46
And he felt the same way. 00:01:50
These people made him so happy. 00:01:51
He thought, if I could become a music star, 00:01:53
maybe I could make them happy too. 00:01:56
And as it turned out, with this hit song, he really did. 00:01:57
All right, but now the song is going to take a turn 00:02:02
for the worse. 00:02:04
But February made me shiver with every paper I deliver. 00:02:07
Bad news on the doorstep, I couldn't take one more step. 00:02:11
Well, first we've got this verb, shiver. 00:02:16
And shiver is this action that we do 00:02:19
that's like temblar, tiritar, tener escalofríos. 00:02:23
This happens when you're cold, okay? 00:02:27
February, it's cold. 00:02:29
But that's also what we do 00:02:32
when we hear something really shocking, 00:02:33
news that we don't want to hear. 00:02:35
So this is a play on words with shiver. 00:02:37
Not only was it really cold in February of 1959, 00:02:39
like I mentioned before, 00:02:43
but also something shocking has happened. 00:02:45
What? 00:02:48
Idioma/s:
en
Idioma/s subtítulos:
en
Autor/es:
CELIA JEAN MEEHAN SAMMON
Subido por:
Celia Jean M.
Licencia:
Reconocimiento - No comercial - Compartir igual
Visualizaciones:
5
Fecha:
15 de julio de 2023 - 11:11
Visibilidad:
Clave
Centro:
IES MIGUEL CATALAN
Duración:
02′ 52″
Relación de aspecto:
1.78:1
Resolución:
1920x1080 píxeles
Tamaño:
9.10 MBytes

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