As in the song "Happy is a Yuppie Word' by Switchfoot.
Thanks! :)
2007-06-30 15:18:44 · 13 answers · asked by queenbee0889 4 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
This is what Switchfoot said about this song:
A year ago I had a late night talk with a friend who stated the quote: "Happy is a yuppie word." I stayed up after he left, turned off the TV war and wrote a song about our happy, yuppie world. Turns out, Bob Dylan was the one being quoted.
"In 1991, when Rolling Stone interviewed Dylan on the occasion of his 50th birthday, he gave a curious response when the interviewer asked him if he was happy. He fell silent for a few moments and stared at his hands. 'You know,' he said, 'these are yuppie words, happiness and unhappiness. It's not happiness or unhappiness, it's either blessed or unblessed.'”
For me this song is the heart of the record, pumping blood out to the limbs and fingers and mouth and such. And maybe every lyric on the record might be needed and true, still this song has kept everything alive for us. We had the privilege of opening for Wilco a few years past- I would like to dedicate this song to the incredible music that they have given all of us down through the years."
And i did some research and this is what AiR7oN said:
Happy Is A Young Urban Professional word eh?
It sounds funny when put that way. I can see where Switchfoot are coming from with this song. I used to hate it, but it really makes perfect sense. Yuppies tend to be, as said above, materialistic - and material wealth is not sound.
The song is obviously Christian as can be told by the line "I'm looking for the Kingdom coming down". Jon doesn't believe the emptiness, he doesn't believe that this is all there is. He's looking for a "bridge" he cant burn down, "a life that wont cash out". And that life is in Christ. In Christ you are free from sin, shame, from the things of this world.
Bobby Dylan (the man) was right, this world measures happiness by your possessions - which are not sound. In God you have unfailing, unconditional love. You are blessed.
2007-06-30 17:01:03 · answer #1 · answered by I ♥ Switchfoot MORE!!! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Young Urban Professional
YUPpie
2007-06-30 15:24:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Happy Is A Yuppie Word
2016-11-11 03:01:07 · answer #3 · answered by weary 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Yuppie," short for "Young Urban Professional," describes a demographic of people generally between their late twenties and early thirties. Yuppies tend to hold jobs in the professional sector, with incomes that place them in the upper-middle economic class. The term "Yuppie" emerged in the 1980s as an echo of the earlier "hippies" and "yippies" who had rejected the materialistically-oriented values of the business community.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuppie
2007-06-30 15:41:44 · answer #4 · answered by ????? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A yuppie is a "young urban professional." Yuppies would be people like young lawyers or businessmen. Switchfoot is more of a urban alternative rock band, so they probably would be opposed to yuppies.
2007-06-30 15:28:13 · answer #5 · answered by Roger W 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yuppies are young adults that are very well off money wise and live the life us normal people dream about! And they're very snobby. Can't help explain why it came up in travel.
2016-05-19 23:19:47 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a word coined in the 1980's about people climbing the ladder of success. In other words, the young, upwardly mobile professional.
2007-06-30 15:29:03 · answer #7 · answered by gldjns 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Young Upwardly Mobile
2007-06-30 15:22:55 · answer #8 · answered by dvatwork 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuppie
2007-06-30 15:26:45 · answer #9 · answered by honey92e 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Means yup
2015-03-26 15:24:41 · answer #10 · answered by danny 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋