| NOFX – Don't Call Me White Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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First time I heard that song, I was like : "wow, have to check the lyrics...". Once the lyrics had been checked, I've just realized that the song was just how I felt it : it is a reaction of a white guy who agrees the criticism made about the "white settlers" who have blundered Native "Indians" and organized a fucking big business of Black slavery... so the white guy is perfectly ok about this Truth but he can not bear being "labeled" as a "white" tothe extent this expression designs the racist criminals who are dead for a long time ago now... so he is white, but not a racist by being so ! This song expresses the feeling of the white youth people in the States who condemn the crime of the past made by the white settlers, and SO don't want to be blame for what they are (white, that is to say in this context, to be a settler descendant) and what they have not done (Native blunder, Black slavery)... So the philosophy of the song is that you can insult me if I have been "an asshole" according to you, but you can not insult me using the term "white" cause it does not imply anything I've done... but only, the color of my skin, that I have not done myself ! Still, these lyrics are valuable for the whole human race... no matter of being white or black, if u want to insult someone, don't refer to his skin, cause it just does not fit your aim ! It would just perpetuate the crimes of the Past in the Present. |
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| NOFX – Lori Meyers Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Yeah, first time I heard this song I was impressed by the #expplicit lyrics# and particularly by the magnific prestation of that girl who sings... thx to BeautyNereid for the information about her identity. But there is just a part of the song I just can not find out : "At nine years old there's no such thing as shame"... cause of the following sentence ("That was not..."), does it implie they had some "really" forbidden games at 9 years old ?? Or are these two phrases clearly separated ("That was not..." is then directly about when he recognized her due to a "special" mark he had been used to see zhere they were kids) ? I would opt for this last possibility but... what do you think ? |
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| NOFX – Franco Un-American Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Like Lanjo, I ve got a French passport which permit to go outside "my" country... and while listening to this song of NOFX, I was impressed. It s true that s musically it sounds quite "poppy"... but it pleases so much to me. The lyrics are great. Thanks to musicians like NOFX, the art survives despite the "blunder" the big business leads to. They dare writing lyrics meaning something else than "destroy everything" or "suck it baby" or "love me tender"... About the expression "franco-unamerican", it is at first, as noted below, a play on the expression "franco-american relationship", but overall it declares that the french stance against the war on Irak was the right one ! I guess everyone got this point but as it is the core of the song (written in 2003), it does worth asserting it one more time. About the lyrics about going "north to Canada" or "han down low" to Australia, I think it is one more ironistic assertion for Fat Mike... As many people here have already asserted, Canada and even more Australia are no better places to live in than the USA... I think it is a way to underline that in "America" (what a selfish denomination!!) people don't know the foreign situation... even in the "siblings countries" !! Moreover, he uses the right term while talking about moving to NORTH for Canada, but about Australia he just says roughly "hang DOWN"... Fat Mike just plays ironically, one more time, with the common ignorance in the USA about "foreign things" ("ok we know Canada is up to North -cause it s the only one!- but Australia... it s down to South, ok... but that s all we know!"), as when it is said at the beginning of the song : "Outside California, it's foreign policy" !! I really appreciate this song cause it talks about reading books and getting a criticist point of view about politics... evoking Chomsky, Zinn etc. The principal word of this song is, acccording to me : "I don't want to be another I-dont-car-ican". |
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