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Re:Wikipedia pageviews this year for each line of ‘We Didn't... by lifeisstillgood on Sunday June 23, 2019 @03:56AM (#20253845)
"England's got a new Queen" seems to have 1.5m views - how is that a more popular search term than "richard nixon" or "marilyn monroe"?

I can only assume it's some kind of google suggested term after people type england, and then they click on it thinking it's breaking news ...

But it seems a weird outlier

Re:Wikipedia pageviews this year for each line of ‘We Didn't... by thih9 on Sunday June 23, 2019 @04:16AM (#20253892)
If you click on a term, you’ll see the page it leads to. I’m assuming they manually assigned a page per line and then counted pageviews for each page.
Re:Wikipedia pageviews this year for each line of ‘We Didn't... by lifeisstillgood on Sunday June 23, 2019 @06:30AM (#20254512)
oh i thought it was actual search term
Re:Wikipedia pageviews this year for each line of ‘We Didn't... by lordgrenville on Sunday June 23, 2019 @04:27AM (#20253937)
It's the page for Elizabeth II
Re:Wikipedia pageviews this year for each line of ‘We Didn't... by seanalltogether on Sunday June 23, 2019 @04:51AM (#20254015)
I wonder if when the song was written, the phrase was actually a reference to princess diana.
Re:Wikipedia pageviews this year for each line of ‘We Didn't... by fit2rule on Sunday June 23, 2019 @05:10AM (#20254096)
It's an oblique reference to the royal culture of the time, which was indeed pretty cult-like, but also - I believe he is referring to Elizabeth II's coronation as it was a fairly significant socio-political event in the Western world when it happened - the crux of the British Empire, one might say, and by referencing it, Joel made a pretty wry statement about the world powers ..