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This jet plane is built and designed to push the boundaries of aeronautical engineering.
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That sort of makes sense, as there are other lyrics in the song voiced from the same viewpoint: The ‘I’ in this stanza is presumably the jet plane metaphorically talking to the Top Gun pilot, telling him he’ll take him into the Danger Zone. But before I get onto that, we also need to raise an issue with the voice of these lyrics, ie from what viewpoint are the lyrics based on. I have my suspicions about what has transpired with this song, and its lyrical intent. And without the aid of Google, I am pretty sure planes do not fly along on, or off, tracks. Jumpin’ off the track? Overdrive? Again, with the aid of Google, its is quite clear that jet planes do not have an overdrive. Ok we are back in the game again, back in the zone, this metal eagle is screaming off into the night’s sky, wings spread out, as the Top Gun pilot engages the clutch and puts the gearbox into overdrive… Ok, lets just put this down to artistic license, never let the facts get in the way of a good story, and go onto the next set of lyrics. do Moro and Whits know what the fuck they are talking about? Metal under tension, begging the expert Top Gun pilot to slow down to a walking pace and daintily touch the wheels onto the runway, like a little baby bunny rabbit taking its first steps out onto the leafy forest floor…. Now, I am no jet pilot, but the aid of Google helped confirm my suspicions: the manoeuvre known as a ‘touch and go’ is what beginner pilots perform when first learning to fly a plane, a practice where they slowly touch the wheels on a runway before then taking off again.
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SONG THE GIRL SINGS IN REDLINE THE MOVIE FULL
The opening to this song is full of energy, blazing guitar rifts and booming drums, with supporting lyrics to allow the listener to imagine the expert Top Gun pilot screaming through the sky at supersonic speed, defying all laws of physics with calculated aeronautical precision.
SONG THE GIRL SINGS IN REDLINE THE MOVIE MOVIE
Now we have to presume the lyrics are based on the movie Top Gun, a love story between a grown man and his jet aeroplane, so lets start by putting the two together: Yeah, it would have been one hell of a phone call alright.īut enough of the background details, lets have a look at the actual lyrics. well, you know, its not really a Country & Western type of song, but we do like Kenny and could rearrange the music and lyrics to suit him…. oh, you have already found someone else willing to do it…. ok, its scraping the bottom of the barrel, but we wouldn’t mind if Phil Collins did it maybe…. geez… well ok, who else is there… what about U2…. oh, they are not wanting to do it either… legal reasons…. ok, well, Toto will be fantastic anyway, Whits and I love that group…. The phone suddenly rings, its the Movie Studio Executive, and Moro takes the call while Whits listens on intently: You can just imagine Moro and Whits sitting in their office, having spent night and day working on the song lyrics and structure, excitedly discussing which current music superstar would perform their song for one of the biggest movies of the decade. Oh, to be a fly on the office wall in observing how the selection process progressed to the final settlement on the Loggins decision. Legally not wanting to be connected with a movie featuring Tom Cruise, I am presuming. Toto passed on the offer for legal reasons. Moroder and Whitlock then requested the song to be performed by then-supergroup Toto. Personally not wanting to be connected with a movie featuring Tom Cruise, I am presuming. It is in fact a song written by composers Moroder and Whitlock, whom initially requested Bryan Adams to perform the singing duties.Īdams passed on the offer for personal reasons. It seems that Loggins is a bit of a movie soundtrack whore, co-writing and singing the soundtracks to other box office hits such as Footloose, Caddyshack 1, and the much maligned Caddyshack 2.ĭanger Zone, however, is a song not co-penned by Loggins. In the next instalment of my series, Lyrical Analysis of Modern Day Rock Songs, lets look at a song which is famously associated with one of the biggest movie box office hits of the 80’s, turning its singer into an overnight superstar, again, before he faded back in obscurity, again of course I am talking about Danger Zone by The Bearded One, aka Kenny Loggins.