Comments on: A Tale of Two ‘Born for Me’s, or Paul Westerberg is an Unreliable Narrator (probably) https://iwilldare.com/2016/02/a-tale-of-two-born-for-mes-or-paul-westerberg-is-an-unreliable-narrator-probably/ A little bit of heaven & A whole lot of hell Tue, 06 Feb 2024 05:43:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: Ruby Tuesday https://iwilldare.com/2016/02/a-tale-of-two-born-for-mes-or-paul-westerberg-is-an-unreliable-narrator-probably/#comment-77920 Tue, 06 Feb 2024 05:43:32 +0000 https://iwilldare.com/?p=14476#comment-77920 I stumbled across this while looking up the history and meaning of this song and your description of The I Don’t Cares’ version is perfect. Ugh. What a way to ruin a song.

]]> By: Meaux https://iwilldare.com/2016/02/a-tale-of-two-born-for-mes-or-paul-westerberg-is-an-unreliable-narrator-probably/#comment-77578 Thu, 24 Dec 2020 17:11:00 +0000 https://iwilldare.com/?p=14476#comment-77578 In reply to Olive.

Wild Stab sucks (“1/2 2 P,” really?). And I can’t listen to “Born For Me” on Suicaine anymore; like you said, it’s tainted now. I wanted to believe in happily ever after. I wanted to believe that sobriety can last. I wanted to believe in the end of self-destructiveness.

]]> By: Michelle Scott https://iwilldare.com/2016/02/a-tale-of-two-born-for-mes-or-paul-westerberg-is-an-unreliable-narrator-probably/#comment-77346 Fri, 21 Dec 2018 18:24:01 +0000 https://iwilldare.com/?p=14476#comment-77346 I don’t think the song was written about either of them.

]]> By: Olive https://iwilldare.com/2016/02/a-tale-of-two-born-for-mes-or-paul-westerberg-is-an-unreliable-narrator-probably/#comment-67602 Thu, 18 Feb 2016 01:55:42 +0000 https://iwilldare.com/?p=14476#comment-67602 Thank you so much for articulating what I have been seething about since the provenance of Born for Me was revealed in the Peter Wolf interview. Has anyone besides me in the PW universe felt absolutely horrible for Laurie Lindeen in the past several weeks? Admittedly, I’ve always been terribly jealous of and resentful of the former Mrs. Westerberg, but now I only cringe and sympathize when I think about how she must be feeling… how humiliating. I never thought I’d say this, but my estimation of Paul has gone down a bit as of late. And I don’t really like Wild Stab.

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