When Billie Joe went to a Whore

[markfromj]

…and “he said my life’s a bore”, was the whore saying his/her life was a bore, or Armstrong’s was?

(Lyrics have confusing gender conflict for the whore, by the way.)

 

[seminole97]

…and “she said my life’s a bore”, was she saying her life was a bore, or Armstrong’s was?

Maybe she was using bore as a verb?

 

[poophawk]

i always assumed he was visiting a male prostitute

 

[RollingBallofButcherKnives]

This must be right before he jumped off the Tallahatchee Bridge?

 

[Rifler]

This must be right before he jumped off the Tallahatchee Bridge?

Wrong Billie Joe...

 

[RollingBallofButcherKnives]

Wrong Billie Joe...

Oh

 

[Hawki97]

i always assumed he was visiting a male prostitute

That's what I assumed as well. Quite scandalous in the 90's yet Dookie and Billie went on to make millions.

Also, heard recently that Dookie is going into the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry this year. What a beautiful thing.

 

[Bierhalter]

…and “he said my life’s a bore”, was the whore saying his/her life was a bore, or Armstrong’s was?

(Lyrics have confusing gender conflict for the whore, by the way.)

Billie Joe's life is a bore. Billie Joe should quit his whining because it's bringing the whore down.

 

[Colonoscopy]

 

[markfromj]

Maybe she was using bore as a verb?

That couldn’t be a verb in that context (“a bore”).

 

[markfromj]

i always assumed he was visiting a male prostitute

The lyrics are gender confusing:

“I went to a whore
He said my life's a bore
So quit my whining 'cause it's bringing her down”

He….her…?

 

[SI_NYC]

That's what I assumed as well. Quite scandalous in the 90's yet Dookie and Billie went on to make millions.

Also, heard recently that Dookie is going into the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry this year. What a beautiful thing.

Who's Dookie?

 

[Formerly Rockymtnole]

Relevance of gender?

 

[markfromj]

Relevance of gender?

None. But it would be nice if it wouldn’t change within 3 lines.

 

[HawkeyeShawn]

Billie Joe was into trans before it was cool to be into trans.

 

[Kinnick.At.Night]

I got so tired of Dookie. Those songs were fecking everywhere in 1994.

 

[Hawki97]

Who's Dookie?

Do you even 90’s bro?

 

[SI_NYC]

Do you even 90’s bro?

I guess not. To my defense, I was out of the country for three years in the nineties.

 

[InsaneHawkJJP]

I always thought it said:

So I went to a whore,
Who said my life’s a bore,
So quit my whining
cause it’s bringing her down.

 

[SSG T]

I always thought it said:

So I went to a whore,
Who said my life’s a bore,
So quit my whining
cause it’s bringing her down.

It's "He said my life's a bore...cause it's bringing her down". He did it on purpose.

“It’s also looking at the world and saying, ‘It’s not as black and white as you think. This isn’t your grandfather’s prostitute — or maybe it was,’” he told Rolling Stone in 2014. “This record touches on bisexuality a lot.”

 

[markfromj]

It's "He said my life's a bore...cause it's bringing her down". He did it on purpose.

“It’s also looking at the world and saying, ‘It’s not as black and white as you think. This isn’t your grandfather’s prostitute — or maybe it was,’” he told Rolling Stone in 2014. “This record touches on bisexuality a lot.”

Ok. This makes sense. I wondered if that was the idea.

 

[InsaneHawkJJP]

It's "He said my life's a bore...cause it's bringing her down". He did it on purpose.

“It’s also looking at the world and saying, ‘It’s not as black and white as you think. This isn’t your grandfather’s prostitute — or maybe it was,’” he told Rolling Stone in 2014. “This record touches on bisexuality a lot.”