APAD: perfect stranger

移花接木
楼主 (文学城)

Perfect stranger (plural perfect strangers) A person with whom one has no affiliation whatsoever.

A “stranger” is someone with whom you are unacquainted. A “perfect stranger” is a person who is completely unknown to you.

A person who you have never met or seen before in your entire life, a person who you have never known before and who has never known you before, and is not, and never was in any way, related to you.

I first heard this term thanks to my country music hobby from the song ' not ready to make nice'

by Dixie Chicks, in this line:

" It's a sad, sad story When a mother will teach her daughter That she ought to hate a perfect stranger"

The background of this song was after the Chicks was boycotted by the whole country due to their criticism to president Geroge W. Bush's invasion to Saddam Hossein's Iraq in their London tour.  Three years later the Chicks made this song to express their attitude: not ready to back down.  The consequence of this conflict is the end of Dixie Chicks band's career.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Ready_to_Make_Nice

But it seems the country world even the entertainment circle are pretty much of left-wing. This song  gained solid support, and was one of the biggest hits of Dixie Chicks.

"Not Ready to Make Nice" remains the Dixie Chicks' biggest hit in Canada. Though they have had bigger hits on the country charts, it is their only song to be certified 2× Platinum, reaching number four on the Hot 100. The song was written by Natalie Maines, Martie Maguire, Emily Robison, and Dan Wilson.

On February 11, 2007, it won three Grammy Awards in the categories of Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.[1] In 2009, Rolling Stone named "Not Ready to Make Nice" the 77th best song of the decade.[2]

 

 

 

 

最西边的岛上
could one be a perfect stranger to oneself? ;-))
最西边的岛上
nice song (& longLive freedom of speech;-)), thx 4 sharing!
移花接木
this kinda work is one of lifetime 翻译成白话就是:
移花接木
这种歌写出一首,一辈子就够吃够喝了。而多数作品只够一辈子不吃不喝的
最西边的岛上
yes, mostArtists r struggling&donno when&which will b theHit
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7grizzly
Love the song. Learned from the lyrics. Very nice!
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7grizzly
Artists are anti-fragile: they thrive on being dissed.
移花接木
Vincent van Gogh 's great success after death, for instance
最西边的岛上
Shakespeare died a nobody, then got famous by accident

https://nypost.com/2016/04/20/how-shakespeares-works-were-nearly-lost-to-us/#

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7grizzly
Thanks 4 sharing a fascinating tale. Two guys took a diamond
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7grizzly
in the rough, had a run with it, & left a gift to the world!
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7grizzly
He died@52! I fought an Asian kid today who told me: 宝刀不老:-)
天边一片白云
the video is so cool. so black and white.
暖冬cool夏
Read the lyrics through. Well written. Love the outro! Tks!
暖冬cool夏
You are 正当年!:)
最西边的岛上
Hahaha, the kid was rude, wait until he is 52 ;-))
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7grizzly
Thanks. It does feel that way :-)
妖妖灵
“Perfect storm”doesn't make sense 2me, but perfect stranger
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7grizzly
Oh no. It was a nice compliment and made my day :-))
妖妖灵
does. How about netizens?Belong 2 perfect strangers?
妖妖灵
Lol.
移花接木
three brave women
移花接木
strangers for sure, may not be perfect,
移花接木
to them. They received life threatening mails with bullets
移花接木
dark dark tone
妖妖灵
If so, why spend time with strangers on Internet?
最西边的岛上
Never wrestle with a pig cuz the pig likes 2 play it dirty
最西边的岛上
just ignore dirt from it and don't give it the chance! ;-)
移花接木
nothing is perfect