{"id":37666,"date":"2014-09-08T13:39:20","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T12:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=37666"},"modified":"2022-06-29T16:13:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T15:13:21","slug":"cars-girls-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/cars-girls-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Cars and Girls."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This tune from Prefab Sprout has been the staple of many a driving compilation album since its release in 1988\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With the line \u2018look at me now, I\u2019m driving\u2019 this seems only natural, but its inclusion is deeply ironic. Look at the venom with which Paddy McAloon spits out the line \u2018 some things hurt more, much more, than cars and girls\u2019 and you start to uncover the song&#8217;s true meaning.<\/p>\n<p>He meant the lyrics as a direct attack on Bruce Springsteen, implying that the rocker was limited in his subject matter to chicks and hot-rods. I vaguely remember him saying as much to Mike Reed on Saturday Superstore.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"\" class=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jEJdfDD4dVg?rel=0&#038;showinfo=0&#038;controls=1&#038;enablejsapi=\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On this occasion it has to be said that the usually astute McAloon was way wide of the mark.<\/p>\n<p>In classic ballads like \u2018Thunder Road\u2019 Springsteen evokes the metaphorical power of the automobile as a symbol of freedom- as he so often does- to get to, and talk of, a whole raft of issues that make him the voice and champion blue collar America.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Boss 1 \/ McAloon 0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prefab Sprout&#8217;s eighties dig at the boss missed the mark&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":37697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1779,1781,110,1780],"tags":[156,371],"class_list":["post-37666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cars","category-culture","category-blog","category-people","tag-music","tag-road-trips"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cars and Girls. - Influx<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Prefab Sprout&#039;s eighties dig at the boss missed the mark...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/cars-girls-3\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cars and Girls. - Influx\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Prefab Sprout&#039;s eighties dig at the boss missed the mark...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/cars-girls-3\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Influx Magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-09-08T12:39:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-06-29T15:13:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2014\/09\/prefab.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1164\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1090\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Michael Fordham\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@influxmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@influxmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Michael Fordham\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/cars-girls-3\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/cars-girls-3\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Fordham\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/#\/schema\/person\/a6c91b312024b67eded5a6ab27166bac\"},\"headline\":\"Cars and Girls.\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-09-08T12:39:20+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-06-29T15:13:21+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/cars-girls-3\/\"},\"wordCount\":190,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/cars-girls-3\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2014\/09\/prefab.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Music\",\"Road trips\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Cars\",\"Culture\",\"Influx Daily\",\"People\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/cars-girls-3\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/cars-girls-3\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/cars-girls-3\/\",\"name\":\"Cars and Girls. - Influx\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/cars-girls-3\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/cars-girls-3\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2014\/09\/prefab.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-09-08T12:39:20+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-06-29T15:13:21+00:00\",\"description\":\"Prefab Sprout's eighties dig at the boss missed the mark...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/cars-girls-3\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/cars-girls-3\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/cars-girls-3\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2014\/09\/prefab.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2014\/09\/prefab.jpg\",\"width\":1164,\"height\":1090},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/cars-girls-3\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Cars and Girls.\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/\",\"name\":\"Influx Magazine\",\"description\":\"Cars, Bikes, People, Culture\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Influx Magazine\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2016\/06\/influx-logo.gif\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2016\/06\/influx-logo.gif\",\"width\":300,\"height\":60,\"caption\":\"Influx Magazine\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/x.com\/influxmag\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/#\/schema\/person\/a6c91b312024b67eded5a6ab27166bac\",\"name\":\"Michael Fordham\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/949366349ea2e847fabfcad335f8699e?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/949366349ea2e847fabfcad335f8699e?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Michael Fordham\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Cars and Girls. - Influx","description":"Prefab Sprout's eighties dig at the boss missed the mark...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/cars-girls-3\/","og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"Cars and Girls. - Influx","og_description":"Prefab Sprout's eighties dig at the boss missed the mark...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/cars-girls-3\/","og_site_name":"Influx Magazine","article_published_time":"2014-09-08T12:39:20+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-06-29T15:13:21+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1164,"height":1090,"url":"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2014\/09\/prefab.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Michael Fordham","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@influxmag","twitter_site":"@influxmag","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Michael Fordham","Estimated reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/cars-girls-3\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/cars-girls-3\/"},"author":{"name":"Michael Fordham","@id":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/#\/schema\/person\/a6c91b312024b67eded5a6ab27166bac"},"headline":"Cars and Girls.","datePublished":"2014-09-08T12:39:20+00:00","dateModified":"2022-06-29T15:13:21+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/cars-girls-3\/"},"wordCount":190,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/cars-girls-3\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2014\/09\/prefab.jpg","keywords":["Music","Road trips"],"articleSection":["Cars","Culture","Influx Daily","People"],"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/cars-girls-3\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/cars-girls-3\/","url":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/cars-girls-3\/","name":"Cars and Girls. - Influx","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/cars-girls-3\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/cars-girls-3\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2014\/09\/prefab.jpg","datePublished":"2014-09-08T12:39:20+00:00","dateModified":"2022-06-29T15:13:21+00:00","description":"Prefab Sprout's eighties dig at the boss missed the mark...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/cars-girls-3\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/cars-girls-3\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/cars-girls-3\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2014\/09\/prefab.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2014\/09\/prefab.jpg","width":1164,"height":1090},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/cars-girls-3\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Cars and Girls."}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/","name":"Influx Magazine","description":"Cars, Bikes, People, Culture","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/#organization","name":"Influx Magazine","url":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2016\/06\/influx-logo.gif","contentUrl":"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2016\/06\/influx-logo.gif","width":300,"height":60,"caption":"Influx Magazine"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/x.com\/influxmag"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/#\/schema\/person\/a6c91b312024b67eded5a6ab27166bac","name":"Michael Fordham","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/949366349ea2e847fabfcad335f8699e?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/949366349ea2e847fabfcad335f8699e?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Michael Fordham"}}]}},"Feature Image":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37666"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61477,"href":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37666\/revisions\/61477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}