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Andrew WK on the appeal of pinball

By fumbleflippers

6 years ago


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    #27 6 years ago
    Quoted from vicjw66:

    I just googled Andrew WK and I still don't know who the F he is.

    This is all you need to know:

    I never knew girls existed like you
    But now that I do
    I'd really like to get to know you
    The girl's too young
    She don't need any better
    It's all coming back
    I can feel it
    The girl's too young
    She don't know any better
    It's all coming back
    I can feel it

    [Chorus:]
    She is beautiful
    She is beautiful
    She is beautiful
    She is beautiful
    The girl is beautiful

    You're giving me moves and hits from all sides
    And when you're hittin' like that, you melt my eyes
    The girl's too young
    She don't need any better
    It's all coming back
    I can feel it
    The girl's too young
    She don't know any better
    It's all coming back
    I can feel it

    And though I never know you
    I look at your face
    To tell you that I love you
    Don't know what to say
    You're everything I got, you beautiful girl
    The only thing I live for in the whole wide world

    [Chorus:]
    She is beautiful
    She is beautiful
    She is beautiful
    She is beautiful
    The girl is beautiful

    I ain't got nothing to lose (Nothing to lose)
    Going to throw it away
    And talk to you
    (She looks good)
    She looks good
    (And it's true)
    And it's true
    The girl is beautiful
    She is beautiful

    I ain't got nothing to lose (Nothing to lose)
    Only living one time
    And I want you
    (She looks good)
    She looks good
    (And it's true)
    And it's true

    I ain't got nothing to lose (Nothing to lose)
    And I'll never forget
    When I saw you
    (She looks good)
    She looks good
    (And it's true)
    And it's true
    The girl is beautiful
    She is beautiful

    ===========

    The brilliance of the song is that he writes it as an older guy smitten with the most beautiful girl he's ever seen.

    He's trying to bolster his confidence by telling himself that she's too young to know any better.

    He tries to convince himself that he can feel his mojo coming back.

    By the end of the song he has his confidence up enough to "throw it all away" and actually try to talk to the chick.

    Great songwriting from the perspective of a middle school boy trapped in a mans body.

    #31 6 years ago
    Quoted from spinal:

    The negative comments really back up what many people say about what pinside often degrades into. If you can't applaud someone who loves pinball and wants to share it with the world then what do you applaud?

    There could be a Pinside thread about Stern giving 100 pins away to children's hospitals, and 95% of the following posts would be:

    They should give away 200 pins, for the price they are charging the rest of us.

    Kids will be pissed when there is a bubble in their decal.

    Will Stern be replacing any playfields with ghosting?

    Does anyone else think that this is inappropriate with JT having worked at Stern???

    It's a trick! Gary only cares about making a profit.

    When is Stern going to do an original theme for those kids?

    If Gary really cared about kids, he'd stop using all that photoshop clip art.

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