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| Regina Spektor – Poor Little Rich Boy Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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yeah, i just noticed the patti smith referece, but i thought of her song 'privilege (set me free)' from the easter album, where she says "i'm so young...." how that relates to poor little rich boy, i'm not sure. |
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| CocoRosie – Good Friday Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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this song is november and chaucer and falling for a fellow art student, really a sick-lovely thing |
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| Antony and the Johnsons – Fistful of Love Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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i like the way you think, damaba, you're pretty articulate (but say "narrator" instead of "author" if you want to nerd talk, author referring to the person who penned the lyrics and narrator to the voice speaking through them, and there's not necessarily a direct relationship between the two). anyway, i like to hear the song on both a physical and emotional level. if you read the "photograph of time" line as not an actual photograph, it has really interesting implications about the way the narrator envisions their relationship. indeed, photographs do embody memory, but in he refers to it in the present tense, which to me is reminiscent of Barthes's commentary on the nature of photography ("he is dead and he is going to die"). Sorry, got sidetracked, been reading too much photo theory. This is my favorite Antony song, it makes me feel all lit up about submission. And I'd just like to praise Antony in general, I somehow find great comfort in his boy-to-woman dynamic when I think about my own femininity. |
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| CocoRosie – By Your Side Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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i don't think it's necessarily a tongue-in-cheek commentary, although as an english major with a sexuality studies concentration i totally understand that urge, haha.
i read this song as a lovely embodiment of that perverse pleasure that comes with submission and those sneaky little domestic urges (that as a college student should NOT be on my mind... oops). anyway, the line "all i want" seems to convey not just a desire but a desire that has strings attached, it seems to be a phrase that necessarily carries a sacrifice, becuase "all" implies that there is more she could (and should?) want.
that's my take. and i loooooove this song. makes me strangely happy when i'm walking around campus. |
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| Xiu Xiu – Crank Heart Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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here's my first feeling about the song (i don't know if he's interviewed about this song or whatever, i tend to take the text on its own anyway... sorry, english major moment). ok, so it seems to me to be about a shitty parent child/relationship. the first lines are from the father's perspective i guess and i have trouble making them correlate directly to the rest of the song, but that's also not necessarily important. the last part of the song, about the girl whose school colors are black and light black reminds me of melodramatic emo kids... no offense, emo kids, i too had my emo phase. the line "giving it up" reads as sexual to me but there are many possibilites. it calls to mind a daughter who is depressed and getting into a mess because her parents maybe don't know what's going on. the last four lines could be actions representative of the scale of things she'd have to do to make her father notice and get back at him (that whole "you'll be sorry when i'm dead" thing). of course, the beauty of the thing is its ambiguity and many possible readings (read: don't bitch me out if you don't agree). |
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| Xiu Xiu – Fabulous Muscles (Mama Black Widow Version) Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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that's funny, i love it when this song comes on while people are over. then again, my roomie and i have been into submissive songs lately like "by your side" by cocorosie and "fistful of love" by antony and the johnsons and "mushaboom" by feist (anyone have any other great songs along these lines?)
anyway, i don't get the closure or "fuck you" vibe from this song (regardless of what jamie said in an interview, the song will have a life of its own). i get the feeling that this narrator gets something out of being this guy's slut. this song is lovely in a way... how it conveys the perverse pleasure and frustration of his situation (i don't want to say infatuation because i don't think it's a strong enough word).
i think twocent is rather eloquent about it. |
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