Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Entertainment/2020 October 3

= October 3 =

inquiry about the Will Smith song Miami
In the 23 year old song Miami, when he talks about the word Indian along with other ethnicities he mentions, does he mean American Indian, East Indian, I'm not sure what kind of Indian he was talking about that resides in Miami. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.180.24.220 (talk) 00:31, 3 October 2020 (UTC)


 * We cannot be certain what he was thinking at the time he wrote the lyrics, and after 23 years even his own memory might not be that reliable. He may have picked the term because he needed some word for an ethnicity to fill a trochee or dactyl as needed by the metre, and clearly "Irish" or "German" wouldn't do – he needed something suggesting diversity. In the demographics of Miami, neither ethnicity stands out. A July 2019 estimate of the US Census Bureau gives: "American Indian and Alaska Native alone, 0.2%; Asian alone, 1.1%". (East) Indian people then probably contributed around 0.2 to 0.3%. --Lambiam 13:48, 3 October 2020 (UTC)

One of Us
Who were "The Three Boys" who played mandolin on One of Us? Thank you, DuncanHill (talk) 02:53, 3 October 2020 (UTC)
 * As listed on the website http://www.abbaomnibus.net, they were Rutger Gunnarsson, Björn Ulvaeus, and Lasse Wellander.
 * Gunnarson was ABBA's regular bassist who had worked with Ulvaeus prior to the latter's forming ABBA, and Wellander its most prominent studio and tour guitarist, as detailed here. There is an article on him on the Swedish Wikipedia, but not on En.Wikipedia. Ulvaeus you obviously know about.
 * Why they were thus credited, rather than being explicitly named, for this particular contribution I have no clue. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 2.121.162.83 (talk) 05:52, 3 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Many thanks, DuncanHill (talk) 00:49, 5 October 2020 (UTC)