Usually, I pick a song that is bolded on the Canvas list but as an avid Ute fan, I had to choose Bad Moon Rising. My family has season passes and every game of this past season the loudspeakers play this song when Cameron Rising comes out with the offense to throw another winning touchdown.
This song has electric guitar throughout the whole song that is pretty true to the time period. The lyrics prophesy of extreme weather conditions and events. The song was written in response to the 60's when America was walking a tight rope of war. John Fogerty, the composer, said the main inspiration for this song was from a movie where a man sells his soul to the devil and several catastrophic geological and atmospheric events happen all at once. Eventually (it seems) the meaning evolved into an anthem of the cold war and so many other messy things happening in the country at the time. As I understand it, there was an oil crisis because Russia was invading occupied territory (sound familiar?) and that caused a snowball of events during the 60's that are foretold in this song.
First of all, I think that Cameron Rising is a valid reason to choose this song to write about. I may not be as avid of a Ute fan as you are, but I love that this is his celebratory song, it totally fits him with the long hair and mustache. I love your insight on this song, though. However I didn't realize the context of this song, history truly does repeat itself.
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