I saw that song as a way of saying “Hey, we all live in this great country. Let’s get along and be good neighbors to each other.” But I could be wrong about the motivation, of course.
Read ALL the lyrics of the song.
I’ve always thought “This Land” was just a song of good intentions and nationalism as well.
It’s not like they lyrics are “Your land is my land, my land is your land...” haha
I made a point to take each of my 3 kids to DC when they reached about age 10. As we saw the sights, I’d ask “Who owns this museum? Who owns this memorial? etc...”
By the end of the trip, they’d each roll their eyes at the question, responding: “We do dad. We own this.”
People act like it was a new song when in fact it’s an OLD song! We sang it as children so it’s older than I am. She did change one phrase of it though. She disincluded “From California to the NY Island” and sang something else, I don’t recall what, and certainly don’t know why.
I was absolutely disgusted with the game that first half- 3/4. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing from the Patriots. They looked like a bunch of bumbling Junior highschoolers.I was reminded of a Superbowl game between Patriots and Dolphins back in the 80’s. Remember Refrigerator Perry? What a horrid and embarrassing game that was! (squish the fish).
I even texted my daugter to ask her if she thought they were throwing the game, she agreed it looked like they were.
Then all of a sudden they pulled their craniums from their rectums and began to play ball!
There are just some political things I refuse to give attention to because all it does is feed the trolls. Reprinting their nasty articles gives attention they don’t deserve and ups their viewership. But, if I want to watch a game I’m going to watch the game because I refuse to politicise it.
So, to heck with the commercials. None of what I saw was entertaining in the least, failed to grasp my initial attention AND there were way too many of them. About every 4 min of game play was interrupted by dull and lengthy commercials while the half time show was not. I felt like Half the game was stolen from my enjoyment, and I resent the commercials for that.
A 2 minute commercial every 15 min would have been reasonable.
In any event, it was a memorable game, I’m glad I saw it. I have OTA tv and it seems to me that OTA tv is harder to account for when counting viewers.
For those of you with old fashioned CRT televisions, get a digital converter box and a rabbit ears antenna at the very least. I have a ‘dumb’ flat screen...not a smart one...ie not internet ready. But it has the digital converter built in so you have to go into your set up and initiate antenna settings to scan for channels after hooking up an antenna.
Lots of people don’t realize that. My neighbor who isn’t tech savy was just given a digital converter box for her TV. They hooked up an antenna and her tv viewing world opened up for her! She’s thrilled!
Sometimes you can pick up digital converter boxes cheaply at pawn shops. No need to lay out $50 thereabouts if you’re cash strapped.