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The Eagles came back with a vengeance in 1994 after a 14-year breakup. And did they ever!
This was the first song written by Don Henley and Glenn Frey after the band reunited. It was about the group's frustration with TV talk show guests who blamed their many problems on everyone else and thought the "big, bad world" owed them. Talk shows like that were big at the time.
Not all the subject matter on these shows was as sad as that. Some of it was just plain silly, like the segment about the guy who paid women to throw pies at him. I don't think these shows are as common as they used to be. Court shows started taking over, and I don't know what's on in these time slots now.
"Get Over It" was a sensation. A woman posted online that her pastor began including the song in his sermons. In the years after the song came out, I applied the song to a variety of situations - especially when people dwelled on stupid shit.
It was also invoked following one of my great literary projects. I had a book published through an indie publisher about how I was harassed by school officials and students who they deputized. When the volume appeared on Amazon, someone I went to school with gave it multiple bad reviews, even alluding to events that weren't mentioned in the book or were made up completely. That these reviews were posted proved that the whole premise of the book was true - namely, that schools harass anyone who crosses them. In reply to the bad reviews, somebody made a post under the name Don Henley consisting of the entire lyrics of "Get Over It."
The song was well-suited for that. Some idiot was talking shit over something that had happened 25 years earlier, and wouldn't get over it.
"Get Over It" is a song for all occasions!