Harder To Breathe
On the surface, the lead single from Maroon 5’s debut album Songs About Jane seems to be just another song about Jane, the name of a partner with whom lead singer Adam Levine had a tumultuous relationship. The album’s first single, “Harder to Breathe,” may sound like a racy nod to the jilted lover Levine claimed to be his muse, but “Harder to Breathe” was inspired by a different kind of suffocating relationship. The song is a scathing critique of the music industry’s pressures.
Harder To Breathe
Summer of ’69
Bryan Adams, who was born in the winter of 1959, would have been 10 years old during the eponymous summer of one of his most well-known songs, which was published in 1985. However, “Summer of ’69” is more of a reference to the sexual position of the same name than it is to Adams waxing nostalgic about the dog days of 1969. In a 2008 interview, Adams told CBS News that “a lot of people think it’s about the year, but actually it’s more about making love in the summertime. It’s using ’69 as a sexual reference.”
Summer Of ’69