When it pertains to diss tracks, the categories of rap and hip-hop control, with rap fights being a basic part of those musical cultures. Artists from other categories do periodically dip their toes into the musical battle. Here are the stories behind 10 savage tunes from other categories– a few of which you may not have actually even understood were individual attacks.
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10 “Sweet Home Alabama” by Lynyrd Skynyrd
Lynyrd Skynyrd– Sweet Home Alabama– 7/2/1977– Oakland Coliseum Stadium (Official)
Lynyrd Skynyrd's 1974 hit tune “Sweet Home Alabama” was composed in action to Neil Young slandering the southern American states in his tunes “Southern Man” and “Alabama.” Not just is the tune a retaliation, however Young is even name-checked in the lyrics: “Well, I heard Mr. Young sing about her/ Well, I heard ol' Neil put her down.” Prima donna Ronnie Van Zant later on informed Wanderer“We believed Neil was shooting all the ducks in order to eliminate a couple of.”
Rather of shooting back, Neil Young really confessed in his autobiography Waging Heavy Peace (2012) that “My own tune ‘Alabama' highly should have the shot Lynyrd Skynyrd provided me with their terrific record. I do not like my words when I listen to it. They are accusatory and condescending, not completely considered, and too simple to misinterpret.”[1]
9 “Death on Two Legs (Dedicated to …)” by Queen
QUEEN– Death On Two Legs live London 1979
Freddie Mercury has pure venom in his voice when singing “Death on Two Legs (Dedicated to …)” from Queen's 1975 album A Night at the OperaWho precisely the tune is committed to isn't pointed out in the lyrics, it's understood to be about Queen's previous supervisor, Norman Sheffield.
The opening lines have to do with Sheffield keeping cash from the band: “You draw my blood like a leech/ You break the law and you breach/ Screw my brain 'til it injures/ You've taken all my cash– you still desire more.” Obviously, Roger Taylor was even informed that he should not play his drums too intensely since there wasn't sufficient cash to purchase brand-new drumsticks, yet Sheffield was being driven around in a limousine.
Regardless of not being called, Sheffield was so irate by the lyrics that he took legal action against Queen for character assassination, a relocation which outed him as the target of the tune. Sheffield has actually rejected that he maltreated the band, informing his side of the story in his 2013 autobiography Life on Two Legs: Set the Record Straight[2]
8 “Teenage Wildlife” by David Bowie
David Bowie– Teenage Wildlife
The target of David Bowie's “Teenage Wildlife” (1980) isn't specific, the basic agreement is that it's Gary Numan, with Bowie calling him “one of the brand-new wave kids/ Same old thing in brand name brand-new drag.” This speculation was partially sustained by an interview Bowie offered at the time where he slammed the more youthful artist: “What Numan did he did outstandingly however in repeating,
