What Is a Nation? and continues to be invoked. Political historian Karl Deutsch, in a quote sometimes mistakenly attributed to Renan, said that a nation is "a group of people united by a mistaken view about the past and a hatred of their neighbours". Benedict Anderson's 1983 work Imagined Communities, which states that a nation is an "imagined political community", argues that Renan contradicts himself when he says French people must have forgotten the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, yet does not explain what it is. In other words, Renan assumes that all his readers will remember the very massacre he says they have forgotten.
More Than a Lover could be seen as controversial. Tyler's previous hit single "Lost in France" became a European hit single, and was due to be released in the United States when "More Than a Lover" was due for a European release. In December 1976, Tyler informed "Record Mirror" that her follow-up single to "Lost in France" would be "much more gutsy". "The World Starts Tonight" was aimed at a February/March release in 1977, and "More Than a Lover" was released one month ahead of the album. "Record Mirror" described the song as "more meaty" than "Lost in France", but didn't think the song