Reply #4: Cool site!

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Just yesterday I was wondering what on earth Tiny Dancer was all about. Well here it is:

Q: What is Elton John's "Tiny Dancer" about? My friend says it's some woman muse, but I think he's singing to his penis.

A: "That's Great!" says a laughing Bernie Taupin, the song's lyricist. "But I wouldn't belittle myself so." Your friend is closer to the truth, although Taupin says the song wasn't about any one woman. "We came to california in the fall of 1970, and sunshine radiated from the populace," he says. "I was trying to capture the spirit of that time, encapsulated by the women we met. They were free spirits, sexy in hip-huggers and lacy blouses, and very ethereal, the way they moved. So different from what I'd been used to in England. And they all wanted to sew patches on our jeans. They'd mother you and sleep with you - it was the perfect Oedipal complex." Why "tiny," then? They were all petite and lithe. And 'Tiny Dancer' sounds better than 'Small Dancer' or 'Little Dancer'