[Vision]

the ultimate song of hopeless yearning, “Somewhere Over The Rainbow.”

Calling Somewhere Over The Rainbow "the ultimate song of hopeless yearning", is a window offering a vile view into the culture of NYC and journalism. I hope the author enjoys the hell with which their life has brought them.

[Dick Vomer]

Calling Somewhere Over The Rainbow "the ultimate song of hopeless yearning", is a window offering a vile view into the culture of NYC and journalism. I hope the author enjoys the hell with which their life has brought them.

the best version ever I don't know about hopeless yearning, but this song is sublime when sung by an artist. Here's a version by the best singer who never made it big.

[WXRGina]

Perhaps the author hates the sheer Americanism of "Over the Rainbow," which is typical of leftists.

From "Over the Rainbow's" Wiked-pedia entry:

It was adopted (along with Irving Berlin's "White Christmas") by American troops in Europe in World War II as a symbol of the United States--in fact, Garland even performed the song for American troops as part of a 1943 command performance.

[dangus]

I’m gonna have to agree with the Daily News writer on that one. “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” is NOT a song of Christian hope in the afterlife. Although its highly reasonable to expect that Heaven might be the fulfillment of such a longing, — there’s nothing anti-Christian about it, and there’s Christian precedent for reading “wish upon a star” as “prayer borne by an angel to Christ,” so that it’s not pagan — the song is more wistful than hopeful.