Question: when Nadine gets into that coffee-colored Cadillac, do you picture (a.) a black Cadillac, because this is just a clever way of getting a standard black Cadillac into a song lyric, or (b.) a Cadillac that's some shade of medium brown?
I had always pictured B, but it just occurred to me that A is actually more likely.
― Lily Dale, Wednesday, 20 December 2023 19:16 (four months ago) link
Good question. I think of coffee-colored as brown fwiw. For Berry's purposes obviously what he's enjoying is just the alliteration of coffee-colored Cadillac — which both starts and ends with a hard "c." Dude could write.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 20 December 2023 19:36 (four months ago) link
sounds funky, but what about a "chartreuse Cadillac"? from 1950:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRXCeEcWjXk
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 20 December 2023 20:18 (four months ago) link
2:17
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 20 December 2023 20:19 (four months ago) link
https://hdpaintcode.com/files/cadillac-20.jpg
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 20 December 2023 20:25 (four months ago) link
"cocaobar Cadillac" sounds cool too...
Wow, I had no idea there were so many colors of Cadillac. The cocoabar and the taupe both seem like they could be coffee-colored.
― Lily Dale, Wednesday, 20 December 2023 20:44 (four months ago) link
I always thought dark brown, and also always think of Springsteen in the "Hail! Hail!" doc, saying something to the effect that he's never seen a coffee-colored Cadillac, but damned if he doesn't know exactly what Chuck's singing about.
― not the one who's tryin' to dub your anime (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 20 December 2023 22:06 (four months ago) link
Speaking of Nadine, and going back to the Berry influence on Dylan discussion way up thread, I was at this show and this was the highlight of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLKODmOHIZU
― BrianB, Wednesday, 20 December 2023 22:30 (four months ago) link