Funny “what are the odds?” happened today
Strange lyrics;
Back over time when we were all trying for free
Met up with porpoise and me
No right no wrong you're selling a song, a name
Whisper game
The song has a strange origin
Ann Wilson revealed in interviews that the song was about Heart's anger towards
Mushroom Records, who as a publicity stunt released a made-up story of an incestuous affair involving Ann and her sister
Nancy Wilson. The song particularly focuses on Ann's rage towards a man who came up to her after a concert asking how her "lover" was. She initially thought he was talking about her boyfriend, band manager Michael Fisher. After he revealed he was talking about her sister Nancy, Ann became outraged, went back to her hotel room, and wrote the original lyrics of the song.
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Producer
Mike Flicker added that Mushroom Records was so obtuse in the contract negotiations that Heart decided to discard the album they were working on,
Magazine—which the label still released in an unfinished form—and instead sign with the newly formed
Portrait Records to make another record,
Little Queen. As Flicker put it, " 'Barracuda' was created conceptually out of a lot of this record business bullshit. Barracuda could be anyone from the local promotion man to the president of a record company. That is the
barracuda. It was born out of that whole experience."
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