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Discussion in ' Music Corner ' started by wwright , Jun 16, Log in or Sign up. Steve Hoffman Music Forums. Location: San Francisco, CA. Has anyone heard this new release yet? I'm on a big Joe Jackson kick after going to his show in San Francisco a few months back.

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Notably, in this song, the narrator queries his listener: what is a man? The song is a ballad, sung as a mournful recounting of a lost traditional masculinity and a confusion about what a modern man might be. He asks them instead to step up and move forward into modernity with women.

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In a conventional heterosexual romance narrative, the boy and girl would grow up to become lovers. We see him at home watching a John Wayne movie on television, and flexing his muscles in the mirror, equating physical strength and violence with masculinity. He seems to wince in shame or regret, or perhaps failure.

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Look Sharp! Though Jackson was primarily a pianist, these records were guitar-strong, but not in an endless s guitar solo sort of way. Instead Jackson put the rhythm guitar back in charge, just as the Beatles and other sixties melodic bands had done. While Costello and Parker told you about their pain, Jackson somehow let you feel it.