Oddly enough, he was allowed to continue to be the State Treasurer until his actual sentencing (some weird bit of state law). He accepted roughly $300,000 in kickbacks for allowing a multi-million dollar state accounting job to go to a specific accounting firm (the conspiracy was wider than just Dwyer – the Chairman of the Republican Party in Pennsylvania also went down for the charge).ĭwyer fought the charges heavily, but he was convicted. The song was, in fact, written in honor (if you want to use that term) of Dwyer.ĭwyer, you see, was the State Treasurer of Pennsylvania, and he was also more than a little bit…how do you say…corrupt? Why you would automatically think of Budd Dwyer is beyond me, but even odder is that they were RIGHT! However, other fans also thought that the song was about the 1987 suicide of Pennsylvania State Treasurer Budd Dwyer. However, fans soon felt that the band was not just referencing a typical suicide with their song, but specifically the suicide of the prior year of Nirvana front man, Kurt Cobain (seen below)…Ĭobain killed himself in the middle of 1994, so when a song pops up the very next year (just a little over a year later) talking about suicide, then people are gonna figure that you’re talking about Kurt Cobain.
They think that your early ending was all wrong The song, which appeared on their 1995 album Short Bus… When it came to Filter’s 1995 hit “Hey Man, Nice Shot,” though, folks did not really need much reading into the lyrics to know that the song was about a suicide. MUSIC URBAN LEGEND: Filter’s “Hey Man, Nice Shot” was about the real life suicide of Kurt Cobain.īesides finding satanic references in various band names and songs, people like looking for pretty much any sort of odd references in the lyrics of songs.
HEY MAN NICE SHOT LYRICS MEANING MOVIE
Click here to view an archive of the movie urban legends featured so far.
HEY MAN NICE SHOT LYRICS MEANING SERIES
Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about movies and whether they are true or false.
0 kommentar(er)
