*RTH* B-52's - Private Idaho

**sokratikos** 13.05.24 18:11

[27-04-2024]

Katherine Elizabeth (Kate) Pierson (Weehawken, New Jersey, 27 april 1948) is een Amerikaanse zangeres.

Pierson is een van de zangeressen van de band The B-52's. Ze speelt ook gitaar en keyboard in de band. In The B-52's zingt zij samen met Cindy Wilson en Fred Schneider.

Samenwerkingen
Pierson heeft samengewerkt met de volgende zangers en bands:
-De Ramones in 1980 met het nummer Chop Suey, met Cindy Wilson en Debbie Harry.
-Iggy Pop in 1990 met het nummer Candy.
-R.E.M. met de nummers Shiny Happy People, Country Feedback en Me In Honey van het album Out of Time, en met het nummer Fretless op de soundtrack van de film Until the End of the World uit 1991.
-Matthew Sweet in 1993 met het album Earth.
-Time of Orchids in 2003 met het album Much Too Much Fun.
-Junior Senior met het nummer Take My Time in 2004, van het album Hey Hey My My Yo Yo (met Cindy Wilson).
-Ze is ook lid van de Japanse supergroep NiNa met Yuki Isoya.

Filmografie
-One Trick Pony (1980)
-Athens, GA.: Inside/Out (1987)
-Ratjetoe, de rugratsfilm (1988, alleen stem)
-A Matter of Degrees (1990)
-The Flintstones (1994)

Dit is de 4e RTH van de B-52's - na "Roam" (2012) en "Love Shack" (2018), beide van hun 5e album Cosmic Thing (1989), en "Rock Lobster" (2022), van hun debuutalbum The B-52's (1979).

"Private Idaho" is afkomstig van hun 2e album Wild Planet (1980).

Songfacts schreef:In this song, the fine state of Idaho is used to represent a case of paranoia - the lyrics "get out of that state" meaning to get out of that state of mind. B-52s singer Fred Schneider came up with the title, which was a play on the phrase "Private Eye" well before Hall and Oates used it in a song with a similar theme, but with hand claps.

Why Idaho? Schneider explained to the Idaho Statesman that it was the wacky reputation of the state, saying, "Idaho is pretty mysterious to all of us. I know it's a beautiful state, but then I know there's also a lot of crazy right-wingers and all that stuff." He added, "The song's about all different things. It's not like a parody of Idaho or anything."

There's an interesting history lesson built into the lyrics, "swimming 'round and 'round like the deadly hand of a radium clock." In the 1920s, the radioactive element radium was used to paint the dials of glow-in-the-dark watches. The women who painted the radium onto the dials would put the brushes in their mouths and get them to a point for the delicate application. This lead to a high rate of cancer, and a 1928 lawsuit that led to a settlement for the girls.

Gus Van Sant used the title of this song for his 1991 movie My Own Private Idaho. He thanked the B-52s in the credits, but that's all they got out of it.

It wasn't until September 13, 2011 that the B-52s finally played in Idaho. They headlined a show at the Eagle River Pavilion in Eagle, which is outside of Boise.

Private Idaho by The B-52s - Songfacts

Mirrr 01.06.24 14:39

Een dikke 6 voor deze

**sowhat** 23.06.24 13:40

Heel leuk. 8

**sokratikos** 26.08.24 16:47

Erg leuke B-52's! 8

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