'I'm a best friend to myself' - Airport 1975 (1974) Discussion

[–] danakate2502 16 years ago

I think Helen Reddy wrote that song herself...kinda explains it!

"Wow, entertainers AND dancing girls? Is there a buffet as well?"

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[–] Sadycal 16 years ago

Well, this was the 70's. The ME generation. I'm okay, you're okay and all that garbage.

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[–] skiop 16 years ago

LOL, I thought this was the "me" generation.

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[–] rockmail 12 years ago

Too true.

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[–] pmoon-2 8 years ago

It's certainly an anthem for the me generation, which makes it peculiar coming from a Roman Catholic nun. When I was a kid in the seventies, one of my teachers was a nun who played the guitar and sang folk style songs. This wasn't one of them. Self absorption wasn't the kind of thing they encouraged.

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[–] KCantu 16 years ago

I agree that other people won't always be around. They go off and do other things, and that is just how it is. I've always felt that people that are always part of a pack are really weak minded. I have no idea what that's like.
Even if you didn't like the song, I thought it was beautifully sang even if it was kind of silly.

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[–] phillindholm 15 years ago

Only on IMDB would there actually be a ''debate'' over a subject like THIS.

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[–] phillindholm 15 years ago

If thet're discussing THIS at Yahoo Answers, that doesn't say much for them.

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[–] timothy-5 11 years ago

She sang it as a folk song. When it was released as a single (it didn't chart), it had a little bit more of a soft rock style to it. I like the song - people have said "I'm my own best friend", so the lyrics aren't completely inane. And what's wrong with being good to yourself and being able to stand on your own two feet? It's good to learn to make your own fun and that you don't always need someone else with you to have fun. It sure beats Can't Smile Without You - that is one of the most singsong, insipid, annoying songs I've heard - someone repeatedly saying he or she is helpless without someone else. Barry Manilow sings it, but he may not have written it. And it's better than Justin Bieber's song where he just sings the word "baby' 100 times.

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[–] cluvonj 10 years ago

That last part made me laugh. I was just thinking recently when I heard songs where all they say is the same line over and over. I think gosh that is amazing you can have a song that is played on the radio and it is just the same sentence over and over I am not sure if I have heard Justin Bieber's song but I can imagine what you said is true and that is so funny. How in the world he is a success I'll never know.

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[–] JayfromtheBay 12 years ago

It sounds like a metaphor for masturbation.

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[–] simian_ninja 12 years ago

I'm sure it seems strange in this day and age but it sounds like it came a decade to late.

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[–] cynic2all 11 years ago

It's an interesting choice of a song, when she had just decided to make friends with the sick girl on the plane and uses her guitar to sing about being a best friend TO HERSELF.

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[–] cluvonj 10 years ago

I just posted above about a post that made me laugh and now this one did too. On top of that Linda Blair looks so incredibly happy and cheery for supposedly being sick and dying if she doesn't get to dialysis in time.

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[–] phillindholm 10 years ago

I know, but ''It's SO exciting! People are so INTERESTING!''.

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