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I heard someone say once that Lenny Kravitz looks like an actor playing a rock star in a movie, and that couldn't be more accurate.
Beautiful, talented bastard...
No one else could get away with rhyming fly with sky and dragonfly.
Dragonflies also don’t fly that high either. They tend to hover over freshwater ponds and streams.
I read this in Noel Fielding’s voice.
Perfect.
“I saw your mom in the gardening section…”
I always imagine Keith and Orville the Duck singing those lyrics. Yes I'm that old.
I think that’s why he’s saying he can fly BOTH high in the sky AND low and precise like a dragonfly. Again, he’s more multifaceted than we realize.
He also conducts his own scientific lyric accuracy research
Last year there was a lot of mosquitoes on my property from a wet season. One evening in the late summer, a shit ton of dragonflies (hundreds/thousands?) came through my yard and cleaned up the mosquitoes within an hour. It was crazy, I didn't want to move around and get in their way so we just sat and watched. It's the only time I ever saw something like that.
Called in air to air defenses.
I'm gonna have to "well akshully" you on this one. Some dragonflies fly over entire oceans when they migrate and they get way the fuck up there.
Do you know where mansplainers get their water?
A Well, Actually
Thanks, I’ll see myself out
It's written from the perspective of a turtle in the pond
the funniest thing was that for a long time this parody version of the song was the first result when you went to youtube
https://youtu.be/8t-iFr9q1I8?si=1Vfpe524p3R_RspR
They hover over ponds and streams
With laser beams
Only in my dreams
Oh...oh...oh yeah!
or working out in leather pants
I want to get away
The guitar solo flying away will never not kill me
I know right? Especially him self-stylizing himself as dollar store Hendrix.
Bon Jovi spent most of the 90s rhyming variations on lie for you, die for you, cry for you.
One of the all time great grifts, being handsome and writing terrible lyrics.
Bryan Adams for that set though surely?
JBJ used it in 4 different songs, I think, including one called I'd Die For You because he is not subtle. Certainly Always and I'll Be There For You also qualify off the top of my head.
Dragonfly in the skyyyy. I can fly twice as hiiiiiigh.
It's really not that difficult when you think about it.
I love Lenny, but he didn’t get away with that. That song’s lyrics are…not great.
He wanted to get away, at least. He wanted to flyyyyy awaaaayy
Phil Lynott could’ve, for sure. He managed to make a “tummy, funny, money” rhyme scheme work.
Post-90s Bono could pull that off.
His mom was an actress on The Jeffersons.
Another damn nepobaby
Lmao
He has always looked SO cool and styliah
as a music degree person/lifelong guitar player, i reheard are you gonna go my way and had to ask myself if it was a hendrix cover for a millisecond. dudes slick as fuck.
I've worked local crew for Lenny Kravtiz.
We were under some really, really strict instructions which were uncommon for all but artists with the biggest egos (don't look them directly in the face etc).
However, unlike every other artist that had such egotistical demands, when we were done, Lennys production manager came into the hall and emptied 2 large flight cases full of merchandise, beer, snacks and the like on the floor as a 'thank you' for successfully dealing with the list of demands.
What kind of restrictions besides the don’t look at them in the face?
Always going his way.
Never quitting because it aint over till it's over
Beautiful.
He only ate milky ways… I think there’s a song about it
He'd consider others. Even Mars
Fuckin Milky Ways
I don’t like fucking milky ways. Either the Carmel makes my dick all sticky or the chocolate melts in my ass.
I want to eat the SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNNNN
OH YEA
Letting love rule.
Username checks out
Yeah. A real straight shooter.
We had a chance to meet eventworker, and boy that's just a straight shooter with upper management written all over him.
What is a tworker? And how can you tell when it’s even
I was an usher at a venue where he played. Usually the ushers and the bartenders get to watch the sound check. The bartenders do this while setting up. He threatened to cancel the show if he saw anyone from the stage. The venue manager and promoter tried to get him to let the bartenders set up but he maintained his threat. So the bartenders had to finish setting up after the doors opened, which was chaotic.
The only other performer to do this was KD Lang. She came into the ushers’ room and spoke to us directly and said it was because she was very self conscious. She was very nice and earned everyone’s respect.
I used to work as a bartender and the artist Bahamas pulled the same bullshit on us.
I don’t buy this… sound check is usually WAAAAAY earlier than doors opening. No way he did sound check right before the doors opened.
Do you mean this as in left some actual decent gifts?
Or do you mean more like left a heap of garbage?
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I mean, have you worked as a local crew? sometimes you can be happy if you not get yelled at. that story actually sounds very nice! I‘m a former promoter and have friends who are artists, touring crew, local crew and managing parts et cetera. The stories you hear all over the place and I‘ve had my fair share with artists and especially their tourmanagers who are being absolute dicks to the local crew. Getting some actual merch and snacks & beer is not common in those stories.
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If you've got a job to do and pressed for time might be pretty reasonable to not have to worry about feeling like you have to say hi or something to half the people you pass wouldn't it?
As part of my job I do site inspections at people houses, and by far the worst is when the owner wants to be present, and doublely so if they expect a chat as well. At best it's an inconvenience, at worst it blows my profit for the job and makes me miss later appointments (where an owner may have also wishes to be present and then is pissed off I'm late).
Keep the change ya filthy animals!
I mean left decent gifts.
You often get a tour crew t-shirt, in fact from us artists this is close to guaranteed. Occasionally they'll give you other stuff, especially if it's the last gig in that territory, then they often give food and drink they haven't used.
Kravitz there were almost fist fights over some of the stuff that was given. I just got a t shirt and some snacks and beers but I think there were bomber jackets and vinyl records in there.
Fly away was a hell of a song when it came out. I worked on that music video (19 hours straight in a run-down hotel in Downtown LA) and lemme tell ya, we were all sick and tired of working music videos but that one was such a banger song, and the night had a crazy-good vibe so we all had fun with it... at least for the first 13 or so hours. And I agree, Lenny was an appreciative and chill guy.
That's from his PR management team, I'd say. Not directly from him. Because if it were, why bother with the restrictions when he could've been kind from the get go.
why would someone ask to not be looked at directly in the face? i don’t get the logic
I imagine it’s weird if everyone is looking at you all the time, making eye contact like you know each other, but you’ve no clue who they are.
I used to work at a pretty touristy place, and saw celebrities now and then. I was pretty good about ignoring them until I saw Weird Al. He was with his family, standing in line, and I looked for a long time because at first I wasn’t sure it was really him, then I was just processing this guy who’d made such an impact on me as a kid. He looked up and we made eye contact, and I saw this look on come over his face which could have been anxiety, but having heard what a nice guy he is, I’m pretty sure he was trying to figure out if he had ever met me, because he didn’t want to be rude. I definitely didn’t want to bother him with his kids, so I just smiled, and nodded and went on my way.
The “no eye contact” thing, to me, is probably more of a “please, just treat me like a stranger.”
I guess if you're famous enough to get stared at all the time, it might be nice not to have to deal with that from the people you're working with. But mostly it comes across as "don't make me have to acknowledge the existence of the unwashed masses."
It's exhausting I imagine. Having to be famous sucks. If it's a common ask then I don't blame em
Honest question: how do you make a living as an event worker? Does it pay enough to support a family or is it a bachelor phase job only? Always wondered
One big event needs like, two dozen different types of skilled tradespeople to run. A big show is gonna have carpenters, electricians, CDL drivers, tailors or seamstresses, forklift ops, net-sec, low voltage, high voltage, HVAC, pyrotechnicians, radio techs, riggers.
That's just off the top of my head. There are absolutely people among them who make a rather generous salary, and there are indeed careers in live event production.
Funny he says that. Lenny Kravitz was sued for not sharing songwriting credits with a co-writer on one of the songs he claims to have written. Look up the “Justify My Love” lawsuit.
I came here to say that. It's so obvious who did the original.
His first album is so groovy, it’s surprising that he played all the parts. It goes to show that you don’t need a band playing live to capture that feeling. I think Stevie Wonder did the same.
I know he’s not blind like Stevie, but does Lenny Kravitz have vision issues, or does he just wear sunglasses 100% of the time as a fashion choice? I know Bono has to in order to protect his eyes.
Solely rock-star costumery in Lenny's case
I think he wears sunglasses cuz of his right lazy eye. Also his eyes look really tired lol
he didn't play all the parts on "Let Love Rule," or any of his albums.
He also has credited co-writers on songs.
Wikipedia says he played most of the parts. And he’s literally saying in the article that he plays it all.
and he's been full of shit for 35 years. check out any source of info that pulls from track metadata, like allmusic. Henry Hirsch is credited for Bass, Engineer, Fender Rhodes, Harmonium, Mixing, Organ, Piano. Adam Widoff is credited for guitar. Next four albums he gradually plays less and less, and often has co-writes. But more than anything else the idea that he created his "sound" is a lie. that was almost entirely Henry Hirsch, and Craig Ross was the x factor in the whole thing.
I’m not surprised at all. I love those first two albums, but let’s be real, the ego on that man has always been evident.
To imply (or flat-out say) you played everything when it was actually session musicians contributing a significant portion is all kinds of weak.
I just lost some respect for the man.
He said wrote produced and played. Not necessarily recorded? Just because he had session musicians record the tracks doesn’t mean he didn’t pick up the instrument and compose the music himself.
Just giving the benefit of the doubt.
Lenny Kravitz is such a weird dude to have a hate boner for, but whatever bud.
Most. I know Karl Denson played sax on several tracks
Yep. Craig Ross deserves some credit in this career. Writing and playing.