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"England's got a new Queen" seems to have 1.5m views - how is that a more popular search term than "richard nixon" or "marilyn monroe"? I can only assume it's
by lifeisstillgood 7y ago
"England's got a new Queen" seems to have 1.5m views - how is that a more popular search term than "richard nixon" or "marilyn monroe"?
I can only assume it's some kind of google suggested term after people type england, and then they click on it thinking it's breaking news ...
But it seems a weird outlier
- thih9 7y agoIf you click on a term, you’ll see the page it leads to. I’m assuming they manually assigned a page per line and then counted pageviews for each page.
- lifeisstillgood 7y agooh i thought it was actual search term
- lordgrenville 7y agoIt's the page for Elizabeth II
- seanalltogether 7y agoI wonder if when the song was written, the phrase was actually a reference to princess diana.
- fit2rule 7y agoIt's an oblique reference to the royal culture of the time, which was indeed pretty cult-like, but also - I believe he is referring to Elizabeth II's coronation as it was a fairly significant socio-political event in the Western world when it happened - the crux of the British Empire, one might say, and by referencing it, Joel made a pretty wry statement about the world powers ..