Purple Yellow Red and Blue

I heard this song when the music video was recommended to me by YouTube a few weeks ago, and honestly, I feel that the song makes much more sense in context if you watch it with the video, but, let me try to explain what I think it's about anyway...

We begin with the words "All I want to do is live in ecstasy, I know what's best for me." Then goes on to "I can't help it. It's this hopeless itch. I just wanna feel purple, yellow, red and blue."

At first one might think the song is about drugs, pills, poppers or booze as those things come in many colors, many in the titular colors, but that is not what the song is about-- the first lines are put into context by the continuing lyrics...

"When I grow up I want to be a movie star or on TV," the singer is an adult, and is portrayed as an adult in the video, a young man, but still an adult, then the words "Cause working just don't work for me." He's (the actual singer) not saying he doesn't want to work because he can't, he's saying that the person he's singing as is a lazy, overly privileged manchild living in the internet generation.

"But I can't FOCUS feeling hopeless, so I'll try to sit back and try to relieve." Then the chorus, again. Many of us these days bask in front of a computer hours on end, endlessly and hopelessly arguing with other faceless users across the world and we're focused when we're online but offline we're not focused-- the young people, myself included born between 1984 and 1989 were often screened for Attention Deficit Disorder or Attention Deficit HYPERACTIVE Disorder, ADD and ADHD, respectively. Now the children of those days are growing up, endured to our lives of privilege, being told that there's no such thing as those disorders, and that's all part of some sort of "autism spectrum."

The song not only conveys the lazy, narcissistic and nihilistic people of my generation, but how our reliance on constant technology use is actually dumbing us down, as seen in the music video, when the girls in the limo are completely oblivious to everything, not because of the alcohol or drugs they're ingesting, but because they're glued to their smartphones. It also places an emphasis on the lies that the common psychoanalyst will tell in order to push speed on children-- when I say speed, I mean Ritalin, a drug that comes in a pill that's often times purple, yellow, red or blue.

Then there's a second chorus, "I just want to be evil," I believe this is the actual singer interjecting into the song, mocking the character singing the lyrics. He's saying that all of this technology and pharmaceutical solution to keeping children quiet has turned the once hopeful Millennial generation into invalids who expect everything to be handed over to them. The song climaxes with "All that I needed was something to believe in, because everything just falls in place like that." He's saying that the only reason Millennials even made it through this far in life is because everything fell into place for them by chance, blind belief and a whole lot of corrupt sociologists who think they did the world a favor by saying we had this, then that, then that and so on and so forth.