This song sounds good until you think about it for a moment and realize that it's complaining about absolutely nothing. 'Wealthy American suburbanites lead largely identical lives to one another with only superficial differen-' OF COURSE THEY DO! PEOPLE SHARING THE SAME CULTURE, FROM THE SAME SOCIOECONOMIC BACKGROUND ARE GOING TO LEAD SIMILAR LIVES! THINK, MALVINA, THINK!
"Little Boxes" is a song written and composed by Malvina Reynolds in 1962. The song was first released by her friend, Pete Seeger, in 1963, and became his only charting single in January 1964.
This song sounds good until you think about it for a moment and realize that it's complaining about absolutely nothing. 'Wealthy American suburbanites lead largely identical lives to one another with only superficial differen-' OF COURSE THEY DO! PEOPLE SHARING THE SAME CULTURE, FROM THE SAME SOCIOECONOMIC BACKGROUND ARE GOING TO LEAD SIMILAR LIVES! THINK, MALVINA, THINK!