Emily: It started as just one verse - a story, a very slow, sad story about the decaying social state through the eyes of a depraved child. The song developed into several verses, which captured the growth of this child, the evolution of this child into a teenager who goes from playing simple children’s games to smashing a window with a brick and getting arrested, and being in handcuffs.
So it seems to be oddly timely with the general sense of malaise and discontent, so it's kind of one those songs that wrote itself.
Jimmy: We wanted to express some sort of form of anger and resentment, and the feeling of being pissed off because you don't get to experience the youth that maybe you should feel entitled to.
Emily: Sonically, we went for kind of a seventies sleaze. It’s always a good way to disguise any kind of political statement.
Jimmy: Or morose sadness.
Together, they advise to forget the rather cynical content of the song when listening to it and to "get into the seventies sleaze. The Gary glitter beat. Put on a tank top. Put some gel in your hair. Hit the town. Dance around. Have fun."
---Excerpts from Emily and Jimmy's commentary on this song--- soundcloud.com/metric-band/youth-without-youth-commentary
Emily: It started as just one verse - a story, a very slow, sad story about the decaying social state through the eyes of a depraved child. The song developed into several verses, which captured the growth of this child, the evolution of this child into a teenager who goes from playing simple children’s games to smashing a window with a brick and getting arrested, and being in handcuffs. So it seems to be oddly timely with the general sense of malaise and discontent, so it's kind of one those songs that wrote itself.
Jimmy: We wanted to express some sort of form of anger and resentment, and the feeling of being pissed off because you don't get to experience the youth that maybe you should feel entitled to.
Emily: Sonically, we went for kind of a seventies sleaze. It’s always a good way to disguise any kind of political statement.
Jimmy: Or morose sadness.
Together, they advise to forget the rather cynical content of the song when listening to it and to "get into the seventies sleaze. The Gary glitter beat. Put on a tank top. Put some gel in your hair. Hit the town. Dance around. Have fun."
Gotta love these two. :)
Thanks Lady! Yes, you noted that there was kind of timely evolution of a person's point of view..., yeah..:)...
Thanks Lady! Yes, you noted that there was kind of timely evolution of a person's point of view..., yeah..:)...