The beach bum persona is what he’s known for, but before that he was a full-blown Southern hippie who railed against capitalism and religious hypocrisy in his lyrics.
“You take country music, you take black music, you got the same goddam thing exactly.”
Even though she’s the Queen of Rock & Roll, she could sing anything.
Even before you hear it (or especially before you hear it) a song titled “One” will seem much more powerful than a song, say, called “Two,” or “Three,” or even “One Hundred.”
It may not make you pump your fist, but you’re absolutely going to sing along if someone does it at karaoke.