Talk:Poison (Alice Cooper song)

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Personnel?

Who played what on this track? Other than Alice on vocals, of course. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wolfinator-x (talk • contribs) 00:15, 3 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Women

Who was the girl on the video ? She is a babe.

Rana Kennedy. It says it in the article. -Wolfinator-x —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wolfinator-x (talk • contribs) 00:16, 3 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Censorship

It seems like a little thing but actually it's a big thing. Re: "The video had to be censored"? Nothing HAS to be censored; artworks are censored when the authorities desire it. In this case, the video wasn't literally censored; it was aired in an altered form. MTV censors very few videos, such as Madonna's "Erotica" (after three well-exploited airings). On an unrelated note, at the end of the song when the lyrics clearly say "I don't want to break these chains", Alice breaks a CHAIR. Not to question the director's prerogative, but WTF? Asat 01:29, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use rationale for Image:AC Poison.jpg

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Wrong section?

"The song changes key 4 times in the chorus, quite unusual in a straight rock song."

Am I the only one that sees something wrong in where it is under (Position in charts)? It seems completely irrelevant to its section. LtDonny 04:04, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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BetacommandBot (talk) 23:49, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Isnt't this song about heroin?

I always thought this song was about heroin ("needles & pins" "under my skin", "running through my veins", "my pain, your thrill"). Is there any source that it's about alcohol? I never heard of that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.225.206.126 (talk) 11:47, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I thought it was about AIDS. May see if I can find a reliable source for this. -- Trevj (talk) 17:48, 19 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Found nothing reliable online. Forum natter seems to be more in support of heroin or alcohol, but that's not helpful in terms of developing the article. I found [1], which may be of some interest/use in general. -- Trevj (talk) 06:25, 20 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Yugoslavian charts?

There is reference for each country chart entry, except for Yugoslavia. It seems odd to me to include this information and a quick search on Google did not return any information concerning this song on hypothetical Yugoslavian billboard charts. This information should be verified. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.70.180.254 (talk) 15:09, 8 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism of infobox genre

Who in the name of God deleted the genre of the song? Excuse me for one second while I reinstate the genre. And someone has to secure this page. A troll is roaming wikipedia deleting genres from infoboxes. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.66.197.131 (talk) 02:23, 26 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

User:Binksternet Keeps Repeatedly Re-adding Unsourced Material

No source has been provided to support his claims, making them original research. 184.103.30.178 (talk) 15:50, 27 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

First off, power ballads are hard rock songs by default, just like R&B from the '80s and beyond defaults to Contemporary R&B.

Second, plenty of sources call "Poison" a hard rock song, for instance Metal Injection which says "Poison" is "a tired [sic] and true hard rock classic". Binksternet (talk) 19:46, 27 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

There’s no “genre by default”, you must provide a source for any genre additions, if you had cited a source calling the song Hard rock, there never would have been a problem, but you failed to cite any sources.184.103.30.178 (talk) 20:01, 27 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

There are indeed genres by default, a few of them anyway, including Christmas music for holiday music that is obviously about Christmas, and Children's music for stuff aimed at little kids. The essay WP:BLUE talks about the times when we don't need cites for obvious facts. The general practice at Wikipedia is to automatically change R&B to Contemporary R&B if it is 1980s or later. Rappers are generally classified as having Hip hop music as their genre unless otherwise specified. And power ballads are hard rock songs. None of these practices are accompanied by cites, but they are how we do it. Binksternet (talk) 23:54, 27 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

There’s no reason to add “default genres” if there’s already a sourced genre on a song’s page though.184.103.30.178 (talk) 02:12, 28 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You both provide fine points. I'll add hard rock with the source, but it really is silly to just have it there by default without a source. dannymusiceditor ^oops 23:44, 3 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]