Hotel California

Asylum, under Warner. The luxury is the trap, and the song knows it.

Asylum released it. Warner holds Asylum. The song is a tour of a life that has every pleasure and no exit. People use it as a mood. It is a diagnosis.

Play it when the house is scrolling through someone else's beautiful ruin and calling it taste.

The eight

Industry
8/10
The arrangement is a long, controlled unease. That is craft.
Household
3/10
No house. A courtyard full of pretty people who cannot go home.
Piety
4/10
A chapel is mentioned in order to say it is not there.
Courage
5/10
He sees the trap. He does not get out in the song.
Republic
4/10
A class of people, stewards of nothing.
Temperance
6/10
The excess is shown with the bill attached. That is the virtue.
Truth
8/10
You can check out, and you cannot leave. He does not soften it.
Stewardship
7/10
A warning a house should play before it envies the courtyard.

Live historicallyOnce through, then name one lovely thing in this house that has started to function as a lock.

Song · Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, and YouTube Music · 1982

Epic · Sony Music Entertainment

Beat It

Epic, under Sony. It doesn't matter who's wrong or right. Get out.

Epic released it. Sony owns Epic. Jackson tells a boy that the circle of bodies wants a beating, not a verdict, and the boy should leave. That is often the right sentence. It is the wrong sentence when someone weaker is already on the ground and leaving is abandonment.

Know which night it is.

The eight

Industry
8/10
The riff is a shove toward the door. It works.
Household
4/10
No house. A street that wants a show.
Piety
3/10
The counsel is survival, not justice.
Courage
6/10
He tells a boy not to perform bravery.
Republic
6/10
A crowd egging a child on. He says no to the crowd.
Temperance
6/10
Pride is the thing to put down.
Truth
6/10
The fight is not about the truth. He says so.
Stewardship
6/10
Useful in a parking lot. Thin if the cause is actually just.

Live historicallyIf the fight is pride, leave it. If someone small is in it, stay and end it. Do not use the chorus for both.