In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
American Pie speaks to the loss that we feel. That's why that song has found the niche that it has.
Basically, in 'American Pie,' things are heading in the wrong direction. It is becoming less ideal, less idyllic. I don't know whether you consider that wrong or right, but it is a morality song in a sense.
One of the things that made 'American Pie' great was also the sexiness of it.
I think 'American Pie' is great.
In order for American Pie to have worked, you have to have a character who, even while he is humping a pie, the audience still likes.
Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.
There is no real way to categorize McLean's 'American Pie' for its hybrid of modern poetry and folk ballad, beer-hall chant and high-art rock.
I'm so vain, all I could think was I should have stopped at 'American Pie.'
Thank God for beautiful songs about feeling despair when you yourself are in despair. They really get us through.
Well, I'm proud to say American Pie was the kind of crazy, gross-out film that guys thought was the greatest.