| Mew – 156 Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| God damn this song. It's gotten me an OCD for the number-series "156". Recently I'm been rewatching the x-files, and in "Roland" he keeps writing 15626 over and over again. Then I thought, why the fuck would x-files have anything to do with this song. | |
| Lady GaGa – Alejandro Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Haha, I like Lady Gaga but I couldn't help to laugh from this comment :D | |
| Lady GaGa – Alejandro Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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For example, a good idea for an analysis could start at with what the director of the music-video said. "[It is] about a woman's desire to resurrect a dead love and who can not face the brutality of her present situation. The pain of living without your true love." (http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1641136/20100609/lady_gaga.jhtml, Klein) |
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| Lady GaGa – Alejandro Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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No I do not "get the picture yet". The only thing I'm doubting is your line of reasoning and very confusing grammar, and the only thing I'm seeing is some kind of obscure lovepoem from deviantART. I'm not sure what you're trying to tell me with it. Painting me a potrait of young? A young what? Or are you painting a potrait of youth? So no I do not get the picture. I might come across as an extremely banal person for applying such academic reasoning to such emotional entities such as poetry and music; but let me assure you, as a former literature-student, that no University is very lenient with baseless statements, even with poetry-reading. |
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| Lady GaGa – Alejandro Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Writer701: What you did was to explain the story of the song through your thesis, which you had no basis for. It is as if I would start explaining how this song is "actually" telling the story of Harry Potter, without reasoning why I'm making the comparison to Harry Potter in the first place; just because I myself would have had an impulse that it had something to do with Harry Potter. Another example of this is also linseymc94's line of reasoning; a baseless thesis and attempting to apply that thesis to the song. What is worse is that he/she's also speaking of a "right way of interpretation" and how everyone else is wrong; you can never give the correct meaning of the song unless you are the actual writer of the song, which also means that you can't say "duhhhh this line x obviously means this y". |
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| Robyn – Dancing On My Own Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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The reason I didn't include another perspective of people who are beyond gender is because in my interpretation, the narrator is a guy; if what I'm hearing is correct in this line "I'm not the guy you're taking home". But of course, since people are hearing both guy and girl, it might be that the gender is supposed to be androgynous and ambigious on purpose, which could be interpreted as an ambigious gender of the narrator. As for Gayborhood Gringo, the reason I am still stubborn about it being guy is because of how Robyn sings the word "girl". For example, in the song "Who's that Girl", the phonetical script of how I hear Robyn say "girl" is "g3rl" (I couldn't get the phonetic symbol pasted in correctly), while in "Dancing on my own" the phonetical script of how I hear Robyn say guy is "gɑ:i", arguably just "gɑ:" which might be the cause of the confusion. |
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| Lady GaGa – Alejandro Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Writer701, first of all I think you need to realize that "Gaga is beautiful and a perfectionist at writing music" and "She sings like a diamond in sunlight" are comments that do not regard to the analysis of the song. Second of all, if you want to claim that the meaning of the names are relevant to the song, I think you need to point out which parts of the song that support your claim. In your analysis you're assuming that your theory is correct and from that premise you start telling the story of the lyrics when I believe that very thesis needed to be somewhat supported by the lyrics, or parts of the music-video. | |
| Robyn – Dancing On My Own Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This is exactly one of the conclusion I got to when hearing "guy"; the second perspective. I would probably also intuitively interpret it as a gay man falling in love with a straight man, but I'm also leaving space to the idea that the two might have been or started some kind of relationship; but the other part fell for a girl. It's the part "Yeah I know it's stupid, but just gotta see it for myself" that somewhat hinted that there could've been some previous, either relationship or just one-time-thing, that sparked something for the narrator. But of course it could also mean that his hopes and fantasies are finally crumbling when seeing this. When I got into the lane of the queertheme, I also thought that if the line is "guy you're taking home", there would also be a third option. The narrator never actually says what gender the person they're singing to is of; we might just assume that it's a guy because the person is kissing "her". So an additional perspective of the song could be a straight man singing to a girl he loves, who's falling for another girl. |
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| Robyn – Dancing On My Own Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I'm pretty sure that she's singing "I'm not the guy you're taking home". I've listened to it several times, trying to hear "girl" but she's definitely saying "guy". | |
| The Fray – You Found Me Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Stop inserting your beliefs into others'. This what breeds hatred towards religion. If he believes in a higher power, he believes in a higher power. It does not mean that he's incorrectly referring to God. I'm tired of people pointing out God as the source of human kindness, nullifying the effort of humanity. I believe human kindness springs from humans compassion, or perhaps just their egoistical motifs. | |
| Rufus Wainwright – One Man Guy (Loudon Wainwright III cover) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Not sure I agree with gracetbe, I don't find anything in the lyrics that would imply that "he was once hurt and doesn't want to love again because he's afraid to get hurt again". Perhaps you mixed it up with some generic R&B song from MTV. I would agree with some people that it's simply about that he prefers to be by himself than being overly social. There's no reason or history behind it, "I don't know why I'm a one man guy/ Or why I'm a one man show", it's just a preference like my preference for you to go back analyzing Sean Kingston's lyrics. |
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| Blue October – Hate Me Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think people automatically think 'lover' because generally there aren't songs that are directed to one's mother this emotionally. And yes, that's what I believe; that it's a song to his mother. I think the intro and outro is a strong indication of that. I'm almost ready to go as far as to say that the intro and outro were put there so the misconception of the song being about a lover wouldn't come to mind. Although I dislike people who believe every song in the world is about drugs, it's kind of hard to say this song doesn't have it in it (alcoholism) since it's written out pretty much in black and white. But the theme is an addiction he fell into and his mother helped him out of. I'm not quite sure what happens after. I don't believe she died. Basing of the end of the last verse, "and then she whispered 'How can you do this to me?'" and the repeated chorus, there's some kind of betrayal involved. And he seems to embrace her hatred for him, "Hate me for all the things I didn’t do for you ". I really can't figure out what the betrayal would be, maybe he fell back into the addiction or committed suicide? |
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| Sin With Sebastian – Shut Up and Sleep With Me Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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The hell? This is song is so straight-forward (well straight isn't the right word) you're basically being slapped in the face with it. It's not religion, and it's not sleeping with a girl. Like f-fashion says, it's a gay guy. I'm just going to quote without explaining them because it'd be redundant. "pretend not being of my kind You keep on talking of some girl that I don´t know When will you shut up, and when will we go?" "Don´t you listen to those old conventions Nor hide or suppress your real intentions You´re open minded, at least that´s what you keep on saying" |
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| Sufjan Stevens – Casimir Pulaski Day Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Well yes. It questions God's goodness when these things happen and consequently God himself: faith, as many people have already written. I personally think Sufjan Stevens' lyrics are way too inconsistent. They switch between beautifully composed lines and clusmy, explicit ones which really drags his songs down in the gutter. Instead of circumlocuting his words he throws them out randomly which doesn't come out very poetic. |
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| Elliott Smith – Pictures of Me Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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”Pictures of Me”, maybe not one of my favourites, but obviously still very good. Once again I’d like to state that I don’t believe this song has to do anything with drugs or alcohol. Once again, like in “Say Yes”, I’ll refer to an interview Elliott Smith did where he answered what “Pictures of Me” was about. (Interviewer asks what “Pictures of Me” is about) Elliott Smith: “That song was supposed to be about someone seeing other people doing things they don’t like, and it disturbs them because if another person could do something wrong, then you gotta figure, you can too.” “I'm not surprised and really, Why should I be? See nothing wrong See nothing wrong” I myself interpreted in another way, of not wanting to bend for higher authorities in society, where I’d put the line. “Who’d like to see me down on, my fucking knees?” Where it as if he’s questioning why he should do it. But if I go by Elliott Smith’s explanation, I think it simplified would mean that we usually scold at people for doing something we think is wrong, but we usually forgot to look at ourselves, therefore “Pictures of Me.” |
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| Elliott Smith – Say Yes Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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“Say Yes”, a incredibly wonderful song. Truly one of my favourites. I don’t really think that this song has anything to do with drugs, which some have stated. That Elliott Smith only makes songs about drugs is way too overused here. Elliott Smith actually answers what Say Yes is about in one of his interviews: Interviewer: “The song itself, kind of, sends you the signal that this character is worried that this wonderful girl is not going to last, that this is just something he won’t be able to sustain.” Elliott Smith: “Yeah, that actually... sort of... maybe, more like if he doesn’t know if he’s gonna last. I mean the song was to be for someone who didn’t make it, but now they think they can.” If we apply this to the song, “Say Yes”, we can see that this actually is true. Elliott said that that it’s about people who didn’t make it, but now they think they can. “But now I feel changed around and instead falling down I'm standing up the morning after” He keeps referring to the morning after, so to put in a general expression “There will always be a tomorrow.” It differs from the ordinary “Act like there’s no tomorrow”, because here it feels as if Elliott Smith tries to tell you to act like you always do, there’s no point in manipulating who you are, because if you pass away tomorrow, why would you want people to mourn for someone else than yourself? |
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