Buck Owens
A honky-tonk shuffle built on a single conceit: the lover who always brings heartache is personified as "Trouble" and greeted at…
romantic self-sabotage addiction to a bad love personification of heartbreak
Nina Simone
A direct, sensual address to a lover named Buck, built almost entirely on the tension between physical size and gentleness. It's…
physical intimacy trust and fidelity masculinity vs. tenderness
R.E.M.
R.E.M.'s breakthrough single is famous for being nearly unparseable as language, built from fragments that gesture at broadcast…
media distrust obscured communication displacement and arrival
