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I moved the Guns N' Roses article to Anything Goes (Guns N' Roses song). Pele Merengue 04:28, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
User Mllefifi wrote: they are still copyrighted in the United States, and the quotation of them in this context does not constitute "fair use." and deleted the text of the lyrics, which had been printed in their entirety. I have restored the text with the following fair use rationale:
1) The lyrics are presented here in a non-commercial way, for informational purposes;
2) Their presence does not lessen the commercial value of the text. I do not think consumers of music will be less inclined to buy the song or rights to sing it because they know can read the entire lyrics here.
a) the value may be increased in that various references, obscure to contemporary audiences, are here hyperlinked for the purpose of explanation.
3) While the portion reproduced is 100%, this is not an acid test re: fair use. We're not passing the lyrics off as someone else's, and the lyrics are in total quite short, unlike a while book or even article.
4) Quoting the entire lyric is needed since the point of the article is to examine the lyric, and explain the references, which occur all throughout the lyric.
5) Using the whole lyric rather than just putting the reference words in list order is desirable because the references are most well understood with the context that the whole lyric affords.
6) The lyrics are presented here for critique and examination. -- Brokethebank ( talk) 00:17, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
"When Missus Ned McLean (God bless her) Can get Russian reds to "yes" her, Then I suppose Anything goes."
what is this about exactly? 'yes' her as in elect her (that would truly bizzare I guess), or allow say travel or what? 78.0.217.95 ( talk) 14:30, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
My understanding is that Mrs Ned McLean (Evelyn Walsh McLean) hosted many lavish parties. She went on a tour to Russia to see how the socialist political system worked and whether it would also be something great for the rest of the world. The "Russian Reds" were known to be quite conservative, straight-laced and puritanical. The song says however that Mrs Ned McLean (God bless her) can get Russian reds to "Yes" her. This means she is somehow able to get these "Russian reds" to reply "YES" when they RSVP to one of her famous parties. This would have sounded crazy and funny to listeners at the same time. An even more interesting story mentioned in the song is that regarding the custody battle over Gloria Vanderbilt. She happens to be CNN anchor Anderson Cooper's mother. 210.50.249.218 ( talk) 09:28, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
— Indian:BIO · [ ChitChat ] 11:51, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
This entry on the famous song has two glaring problems, neither of which I am sufficiently skilled to fix:
1) The Tony Bennett/Lady Gaga version, which is certainly excellent, is currently discussed in a section that is far too long. No matter how good, it is just another version. Rather than waste all that work there can be a new wikipage devoted to their version of the song, but it shouldn't all be in the main article.
2) I came to this page specifically to find out the meaning of the cryptic lyrics -- one of Wikipedia's great uses -- and was surprised to see no specific explanations, and stunned when I came to this "Talk" page and found that the page used to have the lyrics and, evidently, explanations, but someone deleted them for dubious reasons. If it is true that the full lyrics can't be reproduced because of fair use laws then there are ways to quote parts, especially those most in need of analysis. Again, I don't know how to do any of this, but it does need to be done.
Yes. As it stands today (July 23rd 2019) this article is defective. There is NO information about the song itself--when and under what circumstances it was written, how it was received, etc. The article begins with "later versions" and then becomes a long article about a recent version...it seems there's a first half that's simply missing. And sorry, of course the lyrics belong in the article--they often need to be explained, which is the whole point of looking something up online. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:2000:E3C3:DF00:5176:6E99:41F3:FF2F ( talk) 00:39, 24 July 2019 (UTC)
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The song opens with a reference to the Massachusetts Bay Colony... I think this should say that it is a reference to Plymouth Colony. Which was separate from Mass Bay Colony until 1691. (comment from User:207.138.79.11, moved from article space) Joyous! Noise! 15:57, 22 December 2023 (UTC)