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Everybodys Free (To Wear Sunscreen)

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I like this song very much because so much of it is true. It wii brighten your day and make you stop and think that life isn't so bad after all.

This is a great song to listen to if your felling down. It makes you fell happy and makes forget your problems.

I first heard this song when it first came out...I was 20 at the time. I really liked it at the time and it stayed with me all this time. More and more its advice makes more and more sense.

I love to buy this single for the people I know who graduate High School.
I hope they will take something away from its advice.

...WHY didn't they have this when I was a kid?!? WHY did this have to wait until I was a junior in high school to come out?!? I mean, EVERYTHING you need to know to survive life without insanely high therapy bills is in this. Junior high and high school would have been ridiculously easy if someone had told me all of this. But, I'm rambling...again. Buy it, listen to it often, and by listen, I mean LISTEN. And pass the word along to others. It's the greatest advice you'll ever find, even if it is fished from the disposal.

This is one of the best songs that I've ever heard! So much of it makes sense that it's almost scary! I would recommend that you listen to it and get a copy if you haven't already!

I think this is a very deep song, O.K you might not be able to dance to it, but it's great to play when you are feeling down or even to play to someone to make them appreciate you as the words are extreamly wise. Not everyone goes around thinking these words,(apart from the bloke who rubbished it of course, as he sounds as if he knows everything and thinks that we are merely 'stupid people' yeah whatever) so it's nice to hear them once in a while.

This song is so good! The suncreen song is so inspiring and I listen to it whenever I am feeling down about myself! You have to get it!

Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen) is truely one of the most amazing songs I've ever heard. It always brightens up my day when I'm feelings down. Baz has created a work of art here, and this CD is recomended to everyone. Please give this a chance and listen!

Originally published in a column by Mary Schmich of The Chicago Tribune June 1, 1997. Baz Luhrman was inspired by the Vonnegut hype and got Quindon Tarver to do the vocals. Together they spread the word to the next generation who may not want or think they need advice from "ols farts, what do they know".

On August 3, 1997, Ms Schmich writes about the work that was heard round the world:

"But out in the lawless swamp of cyberspace, Mr. Vonnegut and I are one. Out there, where any snake can masquerade as king, both of us are the author of a graduation speech that began with the immortal words, 'Wear sunscreen.'

I was alerted to my bond with Mr. Vonnegut Friday morning by several callers and e-mail correspondents who reported that the sunscreen speech was rocketing through the cyberswamp, from L.A. to New York to Scotland, in a vast e-mail chain letter.

Friends had e-mailed it to friends, who e-mailed it to more friends, all of whom were told it was the commencement address given to the graduating class at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The speaker was allegedly Kurt Vonnegut."

The genius about the song is that it is funky and catchy and insidiously makes you think. Frankly all good art makes you think long after the performance is finished.

A+ to the collaborative effort of the 3 artists who made it oh so memorable!

Everdy's free (to wear sunscreen) is a song that touched me right in the heart. A very close friend of mine played the song to me, and i immediately fell in love with it. It's a beautiful, soulful song, that reminds what life REALLY is about, in this age of technology and where love cannot be viewed at our current speed.