Rapper FIRST time REACTION to Bobby Gentry - Ode to Billy Joe! WOW

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  @daleb1279 · 2 years ago

  She is a strong, smart and unique lady.  This is her signature song, but she also wrote and performed the song Fancy, which Reba McEntire would later have a huge cover hit with.  She grew tired of the music and show business industry after about a decade but she was also a founding owner of the Phoenix Suns basketball team and she is still living but has chosen to stay out of the public limelight for several decades now.  She's lived her life on her own terms.  Very talented lady.

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  @wilrobinson2260 · 1 year ago

  During an interview Bobby Gentry was asked why. She said the song wasn't about why because she was only 13 when it happened. She said the song was about a young man passed and no one seemed to care. She was disturbed even at that young age how no one cared

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• JO

  @joe6913111111 · 2 years ago

  this is from an interview from Bobby gentry herself As Gentry told Fred Bronson, “The song is sort of a study in unconscious cruelty. But everybody seems more concerned with what was thrown off the bridge than they are with the thoughtlessness of the people expressed in the song. What was thrown off the bridge really isn’t that important. <br> <br>“Everybody has a different guess about what was thrown off the bridge—flowers, a ring, even a baby. Anyone who hears the song can think what they want, but the real message of the song, if there must be a message, revolves around the nonchalant way the family talks about the suicide. They sit there eating their peas and apple pie and talking, without even realizing that Billie Joe’s girlfriend is sitting at the table, a member of the family.”

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• BI

  @BigAl53750 · 9 months ago

  What blows me away every time I listen to this song is how Bobby Gentry keeps playing that syncopated rhythm on her guitar flawlessly whilst singing the song at a slightly different rythym, and it just sound so perfect.

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• DO

  @dobybrown7839 · 2 years ago

  I&apos;m a grown ass man been listening to this song for 50 years and it still brings me to tears

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• GE

  @gennyyelton4392 · 2 years ago

  1967 I was 5 years old and remember crying over this song. I cried again today.

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• VE

  @Veritas-TheGoader · 2 years ago

  This song is, in my opinion, the best minimalist song ever. She pulls in the listener, and like a great storyteller, keeps us interested and in wonder.

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• MR

  @MR2Davjohn · 2 years ago

  I&apos;ve heard this song for years. The picture I get is Billy Joe and his girlfriend had a baby that died and this girl was helping Billy Joe throw the body off the bridge, then either in fear of being found out and getting into trouble, or suffering a massive guilt, he took his own life.

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• GI

  @gildahattabaugh4342 · 2 years ago

  This song was huge. I&apos;m 70 now. Some thoughts on the song from back in the day: when her mom mentioned she&apos;d lost her appetite, a girl who looked like her with Billie Joe threw something off the bridge, Billie Joe jumps, a year later she&apos;s talking flowers to the bridge and throwing them into the river. Many believe her and Billie Joe were lovers, the thing was a miscarried baby, he could handle the grief, she was throwing flowers as a memorial. That was the most common belief. But, no one ever knew.

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• JO

  @Jordansmith-eo8ke · 1 year ago

  This song is so much deeper than most of the people who&apos;ve heard it will ever know. So much deeper &amp; darker.

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• JA

  @jameswhitman8710 · 2 years ago

  “. Gentry later clarified that she intended the song to portray the family&apos;s indifference to the suicide in what she deemed &quot;a study in unconscious cruelty,&quot; while she remarked the object thrown was not relevant to the message.”<br>Was produced in 1967

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• KA

  @kathrynnard8059 · 1 year ago

  Don&apos;t you just love music back then. One of a kind era.

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