2006-07-22 17:02:49 · 12 answers · asked by Striker 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
It was the name of the plane that killed Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper, Richie Valens....
2006-07-22 17:06:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
McLean says:
"I'm very proud of the song.... and the song really is biographical in nature and I don't think anyone has ever picked up on that. The song starts off with my memories of the death of Buddy Holly. But it moves on to describe America as I was seeing it and how I was fantasizing it might become, so it's part reality and part fantasy but I'm always in the song as a witness or as even the subject sometimes in some of the verses. So you know how when you dream something you can see something change into something else and it's illogical when you examine it in the morning but when you're dreaming it it seems perfectly logical. So it's perfectly okay for me to talk about being in the gym and seeing this girl dancing with someone else and suddenly have this become this other thing that this verse becomes and moving on just like that. That's why I've never analyzed the lyrics to the song. They're beyond analysis. They're poetry."
In other words, at the time he wrote the song he wasn't trying to squeeze super secret meanings into individual words, as many listeners like to imagine.
2006-07-22 17:36:31 · answer #2 · answered by c0mbustible 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is about the death of Buddy Holly and the death of the first stage of Rock n Roll. Elvis went in the Army, Buddy died, Jerry lee Lewis was arrested for marrying his 13 year old cousin, Chuck Berry was arrested also for intrastate transport of a minor, and Little Richard was arrested as well. What took their place were bland corporate backed singers like Fabian and Bobby V. It took the British invasion to rescue Rock n Roll.
2006-07-23 20:11:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It replaced into written about the tragic & early deaths of pal Holly, Richie Vallens and the large Bopper by way of a risky airplane crash and the outcome their deaths had on the song of that factor. in case you have not truly listened to the lyrics, make the attempt in case you could, placed it on headphones & pay interest to the words. To me, it tells a narrative of a lack of innoscense, of looking wish once back and to under no circumstances overlook those who've left us.
2016-10-15 02:38:23 · answer #4 · answered by anthony 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with combustible. It was a song about Buddy Holly's death and being a Lubbock,Tx native, where Buddy was born and got his big start. My uncle went to high school with him and they were best bud's and have heard alot of amusing story's :)
American Pie is a great oldie and one of my favorites.
2006-07-22 19:09:59 · answer #5 · answered by whatdousay2that 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
American Pie is the name that sybolizes the american dream which he feels will not be achieved now that the music died
2006-07-22 17:06:04 · answer #6 · answered by Amber 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All American Dream, which is now an American nightmare.
2006-07-22 17:19:24 · answer #7 · answered by tictak kat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I always figured it had to do with the phrase "as American as apple pie."
2006-07-22 17:53:15 · answer #8 · answered by Daniel B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Someone just whispered the answer to me: He was agonizing over something to rhyme with ...the levee was dry.
2006-07-22 17:13:27 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was thinking of the female sex organ.
2006-07-22 17:05:35 · answer #10 · answered by porkydorky 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋