PLEASANT VALLEY SUNDAY + lyrics THE MONKEES

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Cowriter Carole King stated in her autobiography that after she and her then-husband Gerry Goffin had earned enough money from songwriting royalties, they moved from New York City to West Orange, New Jersey, but Goffin disliked their suburban life and wrote lyrics to document this feeling that would eventually become "Pleasant Valley Sunday."[7] The lyrics are a social commentary on status symbols, creature comforts, life in suburbia and "keeping up with the Joneses."
Many alternative interpretations exist regarding the song's lyrics. In the book SuburbiaNation, Robert Beuka described the lyrics as "a wry commentary on the materialistic and anesthetized sensibilities of the adult generation in suburbia..."[8] Brian Ward wrote in The 1960s: A Documentary Reader that the song was more associated with the New Left and the counterculture.[9] Michael Nesmith jokingly stated in a 1978 interview with Blitz magazine that the song was written about "a mental institution."[10][11] Deanna D. Sellnow, author of The Rhetorical Power of Popular Culture, commented that, despite so many definitions about the song's meaning, its rhetorical message is actually "bleak."[12]
The song is composed in C major.

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Le mie canzoni di gioventù

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I always thought these guys were very underrated

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I got this songs as a45 single

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Singing about the San Fernando Valley near L.A.

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Actually Pleasant Valley Way in West Orange, NJ.

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THEY serenade the weekend squire….MRS. not misses