Tonight’s featured artists wrote a song that describes how a parent can make ideas about many things including sex seem harder than they have to be.

Considered one of the best songs off the album ‘The Wall’ by Pink Floyd author of the song ‘Mother’ Roger Waters explained to Mojo magazine what the song was about, "The idea that we can be controlled by our parents' views on things like sex. The single mother of boys, particularly, can make sex harder than it needs to be."

Wikipedia tells the plot of ‘Mother’ this way: The Wall tells the story of Pink, an embittered and alienated rock star. As told through the song "Mother", part of Pink's sense of alienation comes from being raised by an overprotective single mother, who lost her husband, Pink's father, in World War II. The song narrates a conversation by Pink (voiced by Waters) and his mother (voiced by Gilmour). The listener learns of the over-protectiveness of Pink's mother, who is helping Pink build his wall to try to protect him from the outside world, evidenced by the line "Of course Momma's gonna help build the wall," spoken by Pink's mother. She insists that Pink stay by her side even after he grows up, and cannot stand it when Pink eventually grows older and falls in love.

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