Sunday, 19 June 2011

Fast Car by Tracy Chapman



The song is a narravtive tale of generational poverty.Narrator tells the story of her hard life- talks about her father being alcoholic and her mother being jobless. Narrator also tells her story of falling to the cycle of poverty

Fact about the song
-Tracy Chapman received a ground-breaking seven nominations at the 31st Grammy awards.
-In 1989, the album was rated number 10 on Rolling stone magazine's list of the 100 greatest Albums of the 80's
-In 2003, the album was ranked number 261 on the Rolling stone's list of the greatest Albums of all time.

Fast Car is all the time my favourite song which have the most beautiful lyrics.

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