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All the publicity he was receiving from his first album did eventually stop. He took a break from music to go back to water skiing and motocross.
As the years have gone by, he has fallen out of the public eye even further but still garners a loyal underground following to this day.
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Vanilla is shouting out his crew, the Vanilla Ice Posse. Before Vanilla Ice started rapping, he was a street performer performing with his breakdancing crew, the VIP.
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In Greek mythology, Daedalus constructs wings so that he and his son, Icarus, can escape from Crete. Daedalus warns Icarus that flying too close to the sun will cause his wings to melt. Icarus becomes too excited by his ability to fly that he ignores his father and tragically falls to his death.
Similarly, Miley’s lover becomes too arrogant, and, like Icarus, their relationship is reduced to “ashes on the ground.”
I think you’re all saying the same things. The myth was about arrogance too, but symbolically. Humans weren’t meant to fly. The sun, Helios was a god, and humans elevating to that level would ultimately crash and burn under the pressure.
If she elevated Liam like this and this, coupled with his ever growing fame by her side, caused an arrogance and “ungodliness” (they were both fairly religious at one point and cheating in their marriage was probably a big deal and a line they said they’d never cross) then not only would that cheating have destroyed Liam’s public and private character, it would have ruined everything they were building together as well. Like the myth of Icarus his arrogant choices left them no ending but one of tragedy.
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it is a beautiful comparison but i think that it’s more simple than that, maybe it is just about put her lover up so high and he just cannot come back down
This line could also mean that she put her lover on such a high pedestal that he’s not coming down to earth anymore