What if the song 'Back in the USSR' isn't about taking a trip, but about the USSR re-forming??? (hexbear.net)

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[-] huf@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago

it's about a big truck called USSR and you have to park it in reverse

[-] SootySootySoot@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago

I'm personally Backin' the USSR

[-] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago

Song was right. They didn't know how lucky they were.

[-] JohnBrownsDream@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago

Holy shit, I like the Beatles now?

[-] Vampire@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago

The hole in this theory is that the lyrics are very clearly about taking a flight back there.

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

However, they also include basically name dropping many SSRs and coming up with some kind of barely veiled sexy compliment for the women from each region, implying the way to reunifaction is through a magical mystery tour of free love, man!

(Well) The Ukraine girls really knock me out (Ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh)

They leave the West behind

And Moscow girls make me sing and shout (Ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh)

That Georgia's always on my mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mind

Oh, come on!

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Oh, show me 'round your snow-peaked mountains way down South

Take me to your daddy's farm

Let me hear your balalaikas ringing out

Come and keep your comrade warm!

...

I'm back in the U.S.S.R. (Hey)

You don't know how lucky you are, boys

Back in the U.S.S.R.