Singer/songwriter Belinda Carlisle officially retracted the eponymous claim of her 1987 hit “Heaven Is a Place on Earth” due to the myriad of current events that show the horrors of the world, sources report.
“I was young and naive when I wrote that song almost four decades ago,” Carlisle admitted. “Now that I’ve grown older and wiser, I of course have come to the conclusion that humanity has turned this planet into a completely irredeemable shithole. I mean, how could I not? Just this morning I walked past a man masturbating on the subway shortly after watching members of ICE tackle an 80-year-old woman as she was trying to enter a church, then I got home and saw a news report about how the world was on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster. How fucking stupid would I have to be to think heaven exists on this worthless rock?” […]
Based on the fucking temperature it’s been here the past week, I’d say hell is also a place on earth.
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I almost ate the onion for a second there
She wouldn’t be the first singer to do something like that.
And now it’s stuck in my head.
There’s a good chance younger generations have no goddamn idea who this woman is, and if that’s you, I sincerely recommend you fix that.
Start with the Go-Gos. Right now. We’ve Got the Beat, Vacation, whatever. Work from there. Also throw some Bangles for good measure.
Okay, I’ll bite. Why do I need to know who she is? I’ve never heard of the go-gos, but I’ve heard snippets of the song that’s talked about in this article
She’s just a really good musician whose cultural cachet didn’t make it out of the 90s. Heaven On Earth (the album) has half a dozen hits, in a pop subgenre that got subducted by grunge and alternative.
Ah, okay. I’m definitely more into a subgenre of metal. Pop has never held my attention, but I can understand the appeal
Fair enough.
Shot in the dark: do you happen to know an album cover with a baby inside a crystal egg?
I do not. Fwiw I am barely old enough to remember album covers
Worth trying. Every few months I picture it and go “Testament? Exodus? Who the fuck was that?!”
Okay I thought about it a little. Maybe Zao - Legendary?
Google says those are both thrash bands. Thrash is one of the metal sub-genres I hate xD
So glad it was The Onion. Whew.
Not that I was a fan of the song that much when it was popular (mainly because it was overplayed on the radio, as typically done), but totally became a fan after it was used at the end of a certain Black Mirror, one of my favorites.
