Talk:Fast Car
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Song Meaning edit
The section on "song Meaning" has been readded to the article, after being removed for being original research. While it does appear to be a literal description of what the song appears to say, can we be certain it's not metaphoric in any way? Without a reliable source, it still seems like original research to me to definitively say what the song means. Any thoughts? Dayewalker (talk) 04:58, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
500 top songs rolling stones magazine edit
Despite being at 167th place on the 500 greatest songs I think it might be the 1st song on the list that was written exclusively by a woman. It looks like earlier songs that have female singers were either written by a male or were co-written with with a male. Please correct me if I'm wrong — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.86.134.134 (talk) 23:36, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
Proposed merge with Fast Car (Jonas Blue song) edit
Closing discussion, restoring merged version: only the "Support" votes have support in WP:NSONGS, which indicates that multiple covers of the same song are covered in the same article. Opposes are cherry-picking, ignoring the clear guidance which was placed into the guideline the last time an editor tried to claim that some covers were special.—Kww(talk) 04:11, 24 February 2016 (UTC) |
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Per wp:NSONGS, same song, different performer. Richhoncho (talk) 01:04, 17 February 2016 (UTC)
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Song background, history seems missing edit
I noticed that the current version of Fast Talk appears oriented towards the recent Jonas Blue version of the Tracy Chapman song, with mention of various other notable remakes. Unfortunately, the article offers no historical context for the song itself, in terms of its original writer, performer, potential song meaning (per the writer), etc. I created a Wikipedia account specifically because this article was rather confusing in these glaring omissions, wondering if the "merge" mentioned above somehow erased these seemingly necessary aspects of the song's history, so I felt it important to call this out. Per the Wayback Machine, it appears that this article once included the pertinent song history and then mentioned the Jonas Blue (and other) version(s): http://web.archive.org/web/20160415180745/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Car . I'd propose going back to something similar.
- I agree. The current article is lopsided, there is much more coverage of the Jonas Blue (who?) version than the Tracey Chapman one. Fig (talk) 19:37, 5 August 2017 (UTC)
- Absolutely, there's so much backstory about the Jonas Blue cover, but I doubt anybody really cares about that; it's a cover. What's there to tell? Ostensibly the main reason almost everyone who views this page is looking at it is to find out if it's inspired by Chapman's real life.
There are so many cover songs, shouldn't a Fast Car (Covers) page be created? edit
Title - the amount of covers dillutes the article I believe Helpingpeopleyay (talk) 08:52, 23 February 2023 (UTC)