![]() A lot of racism, in fact, arises from the anger that poor, disenfranchised whites feel. Not all white people have it made in the shade. "One in a Million" reflects a certain reality, not necessarily shared by the majority, nakedly and without the filter of political correctness. ![]() The object of art, so the saying goes, is to hold a mirror up to reality. ![]() This tune paints a picture describing exactly the emotions of some "small town white boy" as he first sets foot in L.A., and encounters people and situations he is profoundly unfamiliar with and understandably frightened of (Rose is originally from small town Indiana).Įven if it is not autobiographical (it probably is), it is a stark portrait of a young man who has never interacted with anyone who wasn't white protestant and is freaked out by his first exposure to the hostile and apathetic "big city." Writers such as Cormac McCarthy, William Burroughs, and J G Ballard often wrote about psychopaths and the nadirs of human degradation, but that did not mean the authors themselves were sadistic, violent beasts. I have no clue as to what motivated Axl to lash out at the world, but the one thing I value above all else in art is sincerity. General CommentThis is a highly emotional song for me.
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