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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
American Pie speaks to the loss that we feel. That's why that song has found the niche that it has.
In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.
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.
One of the things that made 'American Pie' great was also the sexiness of it.
Well, I'm proud to say American Pie was the kind of crazy, gross-out film that guys thought was the greatest.
As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel.
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.
Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.
I was around in 1970, and now I am around in 2015 ... there is no poetry and very little romance in anything anymore, so it is really like the last phase of 'American Pie.'
I think 'American Pie' is great.