Talk:Paula Cole
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I made some minor edits to the wording and wikified some of the terms. In her heyday... seemed an antiquated way to talk about something that happened nor more than five years ago. I re-worded it to In the past... I also added information about the birth and raising of Paula's daughter Sky (not much frankly) to help explain the hiatus.
Finally, to say that Paula 'self released' some songs in retaliation seems POV. I re-worded it to get the music out there which is honest without putting any slant on the reason. Oh and I forgot to log in. I'm 24.126.70.48 Wjbean 22:10, 2005 Apr 23 (UTC)
[edit] Revisionist History
While its impossible to get inside another's head, the information regarding Harbinger is and remains a rather serious misstatement of fact. Paula was, from before high school on and through her graduation, among the most popular students in her class. She was the star of virtually all musical and drama productions in both middle school and high school. She served as class president in high school and an officer in school clubs.
When she began to tour, people from Rockport appeared at her shows, including second grade teachers, middle school science teachers, classmates and others.
It may well be that, internally, Paula felt pressures to conform. Perhaps so. Its a misstatment of the facts though to say this was an angst-ridden ignored woman in the corner. That just isn't what happened and its time to stop saying that.
[edit] Hit song copied ?
I've recently heard the hit song "Where have all the cowboys gone?" on a Simpson's episode, and I have to wonder, is the song a direct rip-off of the bruce dickinson song "Sacred Cowboys" (released 1994)???? The lyrics are similar and so is the chorus, I'll get a copy of the song (live or something) and try to compare, although I'm pretty sure one of them ripped off the other. At least the chorus (the verse in the dickinson song is a kind of different).
Here are the lyrics of the dickinson's song:
"Where is our John Wayne Where’s our sacred cowboy now? Where are the indians on the hill? There’s no indians left to kill"
and here are paula cole's:
"Where is my john wayne Where is my prairie son Where is my happy ending Where have all the cowboys gone"
Ok... I've heard the paula cole's song... the verse is also similar, and so is the bridge... this is a direct rip-off, they just "commercialized" the song. Pisses me off, dickinson's song is far superior.
