Rosanne Cash Backtracks on Boehner Tweet

Two days ago Roseanne Cash decided she had had enough of Congressman (and soon-to-be House Majority Leader) John Boehner invoking her dad"s name to score political points, tweeting: 'John Boehner: stop using my dad"s name as a punchline. You asshat."

But now, Cash is learning the hard way not to tweet in anger — she now says she regrets her exact choice of words. 'You feel like you're talking to your group of friends, and then suddenly it's out there in the world," she told The Washington Post . 'I'm a little abashed that it appears that I'm participating in the vitriol." She firmly stands by the criticism though. "People co-opt my dad, but he was a real person who had his own beliefs," she says. "They make him a one-dimensional image to further their own agendas."

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Song Stories

“The A Team”

Ed Sheeran | 2011

This debut track from the then-20-year-old British singer-songwriter has a dark story behind it. Sheeran says he culls songwriting inspiration from "viewing other people's situations," which, for the heroine in "The A Team," involves drug addiction and prostitution that began as a teen. Sheeran paints the woman's trials with haunting imagery such as "But lately her face seems/Slowly sinking, wasting/Crumbling like pastries." "I did a gig at a homeless shelter, [and the song] is about one of the women there. It's her story," he said.

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