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"Frederick" is a song written by Patti Smith, and released as lead single from Patti Smith Group 1979 album Wave. The song is dedicated to Fred "Sonic" Smith, guitar player of the Detroit band MC5 and Smith's future husband.
Smash Hits said, "Patti has been getting a lot of stick from her original admirers for 'selling out' and going pop. I think they're being short-sighted (not to mention cloth-eared). This is an excellent sample of her new work with producer Todd Rundgren."[1]
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When it was released, it raced up the charts like a Rock star single even though the artist had never had a major label release before and the song was wildly different from anything else in the current mainstream Country genre.
Within a few weeks, he left for Morocco and I went to Greece. June came soon after and school was over. I headed off for parts north and never saw Nick again. But he was not out of my life, not out of my life at all.
It seems to me there are good reasons for our fascination, and they have their origins both in him and in ourselves. Nick wrote songs that beg for love in a very seductive way. In a sense, he created a gorgeous trap, then left it yawning wide open when he departed. It makes no difference that he is dead, the songs go on pleading Love me, love me, love me. Who can blame us if we do?
In Mexico, about 10 women and girls are killed every day by partners or family members. The Mexican singer-songwriter Silvana Estrada wrote about this in "Si Me Matan" or "If They Kill Me." Her song is nominated for an award in tomorrow's Latin Grammys. Reporter James Fredrick spoke with her in Mexico City.
JAMES FREDRICK, BYLINE: Silvana Estrada still remembers the first lesson she learned about being a woman. She was 5 or 6 years old and watched men at a construction site catcalling her mother near their home in Veracruz, Mexico.
FREDRICK: As a young, female musician traveling alone to play small gigs across Mexico, Estrada came across a story on social media. A young woman around her age had taken a cab and was later found dead. But most of the online chatter blamed the victim for being out late by herself.
FREDRICK: A series of similar cases sparked a hashtag on social media - #SiMeMatan - #IfTheyKillMe - in which women pushed back against the idea of being responsible for their own murder. It sparked something in Estrada, and she started writing.
FREDRICK: This song has grown into something the 26-year-old never expected. It's become an anthem of defiance and a staple in women's marches across Latin America where signs show the lyric, they've taken so much from us that they've even taken our fear.
FREDRICK: She sits with her guitar in an empty courtyard. She starts playing and singing. As the camera spins around her, Estrada comes face-to-face with a series of women - old, young, one rubbing her pregnant belly. She performed the song live for each woman, and inevitably, every session ended in tears.
ESTRADA: It teached (ph) me so much about empathy and about community and about music, really. It's insane. We were all feeling just because a song. It's insane. Music is insane. I love it (laughter).
I suspect Grace was reading Nietzsche when she wrote this. "Fredrick" is not a usual English version of the name "Frederick", whereas "Friedrich" would have been a dead give-away. That was my first clue.Second one was a PBS show on the centenary of Nietzsche's death, in 2000.
I think Grace was influenced by him, thought quite a bit like him -- who else so closely resembles a Superwoman? -- someone so talented, beautiful, blazingly intelligent, smart-mouthed -- and headed for the same fate as everyone else?
I think it's about a guy who has been drafted into the Vietnam War. I think the whole album is conceptually based around this, but I am by no means an expert. I just discovered the record and I love it.
I think this song is about the attraction and danger of meth, or "speed" (third line from the end). The "machine men" are people who've developed mental disorders due to speed. "Slide down on you" is the rationale that eventually you can get back to normal again. "Brakes in bad weather" has a double meaning; slippery, and being out of control and unable to stop.
It sounds to me as if she's talking to an inexperienced young lover and how young lovers will try to not get pregnant by not staying "all the way in." And later it sounds like he's dealing with authoritative voices as he comes into his own.
Look at the lyric sheet for all the tunes on Volunteers and especially We Can Be Together.The part where they sing "Up Against the Wall" you hear Grace singing Motherfucker the second time around. There was argument between the group and the label over leaving that word in the song; the did, but if you follow the lyrics as printed on the sheet you'll see "Up against the wall Fred" instead of Motherfucker.We've at least deciphered the title of the song...Hey Motherfucker.
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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: In Mexico, about 10 women and girls are killed every day by partners or family members. The Mexican singer-songwriter Silvana Estrada wrote about this in "Si Me Matan" or "If They Kill Me." Her song is nominated for an award in tomorrow's Latin Grammys. Reporter James Fredrick spoke with her in Mexico City.(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "SI ME MATAN")SILVANA ESTRADA: (Singing) Oh. Oh. Oh.JAMES FREDRICK, BYLINE: Silvana Estrada still remembers the first lesson she learned about being a woman. She was 5 or 6 years old and watched men at a construction site catcalling her mother near their home in Veracruz, Mexico.ESTRADA: I saw my mother's reaction, and I felt she was so scared and so uncomfortable with her body and so ashamed.FREDRICK: We spoke at a coffee shop in Mexico City where she told me another lesson her mom taught her years later.ESTRADA: And you need to say no many times, thousands of times, in order that they understand that no is no.FREDRICK: As a young, female musician traveling alone to play small gigs across Mexico, Estrada came across a story on social media. A young woman around her age had taken a cab and was later found dead. But most of the online chatter blamed the victim for being out late by herself.ESTRADA: What shocked me the most was to see all the comments and all the media trying to make her guilty of her own death.FREDRICK: A series of similar cases sparked a hashtag on social media - #SiMeMatan - #IfTheyKillMe - in which women pushed back against the idea of being responsible for their own murder. It sparked something in Estrada, and she started writing.(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "SI ME MATAN")ESTRADA: (Singing in Spanish).FREDRICK: She sings, I grew up in fear, but even so, I went out alone to see the stars, to love life.ESTRADA: I wrote that part, like, in a day, and then the next - the second part took me, like, two years because I was so angry.FREDRICK: In the second half of the song, something changes.(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "SI ME MATAN")ESTRADA: (Singing in Spanish).FREDRICK: Estrada sings, if they kill me, I'll become a seed for those to come. Now no one silences us. Nothing contains us.ESTRADA: It took me two years to understand that what I wanted the most was to keep my own hope. I'm so grateful with this song, because it took me to a place that I was needing so much.FREDRICK: This song has grown into something the 26-year-old never expected. It's become an anthem of defiance and a staple in women's marches across Latin America where signs show the lyric, they've taken so much from us that they've even taken our fear.(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "SI ME MATAN")UNIDENTIFIED GROUP: (Singing in Spanish).FREDRICK: There have been many adaptations of the song but none as grand as this one performed by the feminist collective at the Catalonia College of Music in Barcelona.(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "SI ME MATAN")UNIDENTIFIED GROUP: (Singing in Spanish).FREDRICK: But most moving of all for Estrada was the music video she made for the song.ESTRADA: I think it's the most beautiful experience that I've ever lived in my life.(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "SI ME MATAN")ESTRADA: (Singing) Si me matan...FREDRICK: She sits with her guitar in an empty courtyard. She starts playing and singing. As the camera spins around her, Estrada comes face-to-face with a series of women - old, young, one rubbing her pregnant belly. She performed the song live for each woman, and inevitably, every session ended in tears.ESTRADA: It teached (ph) me so much about empathy and about community and about music, really. It's insane. We were all feeling just because a song. It's insane. Music is insane. I love it (laughter).FREDRICK: For NPR News, I'm James Fredrick in Mexico City.(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "SI ME MATAN")ESTRADA: (Singing in Spanish).
Frederick M. Lehman was a California businessman that lost everything through business reverses. He was forced to spend his working hours in manual labor, working in a Pasadena packing house packing oranges and lemons into wooden crates. Not an ideal environment for writing love songs, but this was the environment the Lord chose to use.
Throughout the day, as he packed oranges and lemons, the words continued to flow. Perhaps he jotted down words on various pieces of broken crate as he went along. He could hardly wait to get home and commit these words to paper.
Upon arriving home, he hurried to his old upright piano and began arranging the words and composing a melody to fit them. He soon had finished two stanzas and the melody to go along with them, but now what was he to do? In those days, a song had to have at least three stanzas to be considered complete. (A far cry from the songs of our day that only need have three words!) He tried and tried to come up with a third stanza, but to no avail. The words just would not fall into place.
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