Dirty Laundry (song)
| Dirty Laundry | |
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| Don Henley | |
| publication | October 29, 1982 |
| length | 5:36 |
| Genre (s) | New wave , rock |
| Author (s) | Don Henley, Danny Kortchmar |
| album | I can't stand still |
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Dirty Laundry is a song by Don Henley from the year 1982 that he and Danny Kortchmar was written. It appeared on the album I Can't Stand Still and is part of the soundtrack for the crime series Miami Vice .
history
The song is about a corrupt, cold-hearted reporter team and the tabloidization of the news. Henley sings from the perspective of the facilitator , who could almost be an actor, but it is not. The theme of the song is also the greed for sensational topics such as deaths , disasters and scandals without regard to the people concerned and moral values; regarding the line: "We all know that crap is king" (German for example: "We all know that the crap rules"). The press coverage of the deaths of Natalie Wood and John Belushi served as inspiration, the line: “Is the head dead yet?” (German: “Is the head dead?”) Is an allusion to the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan . The release took place on October 30, 1982, in Canada the new wave song reached number one.
In Miami Vice you heard the song once in the episode Hard Rock .
Cover versions
- Lisa Marie Presley (2005)
- Robin Meade (2011)
- Nickelback (2016)
Individual evidence
Web links
- Lyrics to the song