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In 2012, The Chicago’s Teachers Union voted to authorize a strike, which began on September 10, 2012 over the failed negotiations regarding teachers' pay increases, health insurance and evaluations.

A tentative agreement made on 9/14 fell through and Emanuel sought a legal injunction in order to force teachers back to work.

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She got a man!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvYIpa1Ulvw

In this line, it’s part of a reference to the previous line. He says “we’ve got one thing in common, it’s this tongue of mine”. They have nothing else in common but that and sex.

He then says, “She’s got a boyfriend anyway” because what’s the point in trying to have anything else in common and getting to know each other? There is none. She’s got a boyfriend anyway. There’s no point in him getting to know her and trying to be in a proper relationship with her because she is already in one.

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She’s empty at this point, void of love, and so this physical relief is just a temporary fix (“damage control”) to a much bigger wound.

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She realizes that even when she’s with him physically, she is alone in the relationship because for him, it’s only physical.

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A la Bobby Freeman:

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Play on Lesley Gore’s hit, “It’s my Party”

It’s my party, and I’ll cry if I want to
Cry if I want to, cry if I want to
You would cry too if it happened to you

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Yeezy isn’t exactly good at watching his mouth, and his public image suffers accordingly. Playing off dick swallowing, Ye would rather be a jerk to express the truth and get criticized, than swallow his words and lie or hold his tongue.

This could also possibly be a reference to the conversation between young Tre and Furious Styles from Boyz n The Hood.

So you a leader or a follower?
I’m a leader.

He uses the same rhyme in a track from his mixtape Freshman Adjustment titled “Gossip Files”:

‘Cause we the leaders, and they the followers
And we the nut busters, and they the swallowers

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The Hamptons–known for its density of wealth, seersucker suits, and douchebags–annoys Kanye.

Kanye has gotten a lot of flack for these lines – his critics argue that he’s countering racial injustice with misogyny. But it is of course unlikely that Kanye is actually going to fuck the new slavemaster’s spouse.

In fact, this is more likely a reference to the Black Brute stereotype, which has a long legacy of spreading fear among white society of black men having sex with white women. This led to severely racist anti-miscegenation laws in the United States, which were only ruled unconstitutional in 1967. Kanye is likely playing into this stereotype just to demonstrate through the backlash against him that this fear and the stereotype is alive and well. This fear of the ‘Black Brute’ and fear of miscegenation is well documented, and more information can be found here.

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The 1975 consists of Matthew Healy (vocals/guitar), Adam Hann (lead guitar), George Daniel (drums), and Ross MacDonald (bass), all of whom are from Macclesfield in Cheshire, England. The four band members, now based in Manchester, met in secondary school and began playing together as teenagers.

The eclectic four-piece band have amorphous drifts between brooding art rock, crisp electronica, dancefloor R&B, and 80’s gloss pop, as well as lead singer Matthew “Matty” Healy’s stories of lust, intoxication, and the unabashed grittiness of modern youth. Common themes in their lyrics range anywhere from dysfunctional relationships, to the failure of modernity.

Throughout 2012, The 1975 released multiple EPs, which sparked the start of their careers. The following year, 2013, their self-titled debut album took the world by storm. From 2014 until 2015 the band’s focus was on touring, though they did reveal through photos on social media that their next sound would reflect a departure from their previously black-and-white aesthetic.

2016 brought the drop of their sophomore record, i like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it, rekindling and thereby amplifying their international domination. The second album from the band revealed their ability for diversity in sound and style.

The 1975’s third studio album, A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships was released late 2018 and is yet another of their records with a sound of its own. This most recent record also calls out the state of the world and draws attention to the shortcomings of humanity.

The 1975’s fourth album, Notes on a Conditional Form, was released in May of 2020 and promised yet another completely new era of the band. This album has also been revealed to be the most “woke” one yet.

Being Funny in a Foreign Language, the band’s fifth studio album, was first teased on 1 June, 2022, with a post reading:

Your new album. Your new era. Your old friends. The 1975

The album was released in October 2022 and described by Matty Healy as a “collection of polaroids” as opposed to a magnum opus.

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