I Hate Boston Billboard: The REAL Story
It’s TRUE! In the North End, if you look up, you’ll see the I Hate Boston billboard. How can this be? Who HATES Boston?
It MUST be an angry Yankee fan. That’s it. Wait, maybe an angry commuter is FED up with all of the construction. Ok, there IS some hate involved, but it’s not what you think.
The person, yes, the PERSON that wrote this doesn’t hate our fair city. I has to do with LOVE.
Before Social Media
Way, WAY before social media, when we got dumped, the social media of the 1980’s was, radio, and cassettes. What did music artists do, when they got dumped? They wrote a song. Ask Heart’s Ann Wilson. She sang “Alone.” What about John Waite’s Missing You? U-2’s With Or Without You is a great one, to share pain. Or how about Poison’s Every Rose Has It’s Thorn?
Once we got the invention of social media, people began to share their (food) and life, better or worse ON-LINE, for all to see. Until now. Today the new way to cry: BILLBOARD.
The Song, Of Course, It’s A SONG!
The almost, now famous I Hate Boston, billboard is based on a song from actress and singer Renee Rapp. CBS Boston reports:
Some social media sleuthing revealed the culprit is none other than Renée Rapp, the musical artist known for playing Regina George in “Mean Girls” on Broadway or her role in HBO’s “Sex Lives of College Girls.” The billboard advertises a song of the same name on Rapp’s upcoming album “Snow Angel,” which will be released on Friday.
Renee says the song is about a breakup with a guy from Boston. The guy isn’t really from here, but Boston lyrically, fit the melody and rhymed.
Oh, I see, it’s a really creative marketing campaign promoting a song. Wow, was I fooled. I’d better cancel my Time Square billboard Yankees SUCK, ad. Or maybe I won’t.
