| Guster – Satellite Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song is about the Sputnik program. The following supports: - It caught the US by surprise ("Are you what I think you are?") - it reflects Western Cold War paranoia ("Always the first star that I find", i.e, cannot think of anything else) - it spurred the US space program ("Elevator to the moon") - it scaled the arms race ("Maybe you will always be / Just a little out of reach") - it encouraged the formation of ARPA [now DARPA] ("Passenger side, lighting the sky") - it indirectly led to the rule of Vladimir Putin ("Shining like a work of art", also "Just a little favorite tune") |
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| Air Supply – Lost In Love Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Original a misguided 'reinvention' of "The Star-Spangled Banner," this song was intended to be played during the execution of the renowned Puerto Rican pirate Roberto Cofresi in 1825. The firing squad became anxious during the opening cords and did not allow for the song to reach the designated climax (the third "eager to be what you wanted") before firing. From embarrassment, the song was ignored until 1980, surviving only through musical scores coded in the painting "The Hay Wain" by John Constable. While viewing a traveling art exhibit in the late 1970s, the nascent Australian group "Air Supply" cracked the code and saw the revived music as a perfect statement of pro-Australian republicanism as a salvation for the country's aboriginal population ("So lift your eyes if you feel you can / Reach for a star and I'll show you a plan / I figured it out / What I needed was someone to show me"). | |
| DragonForce – Through the Fire and Flames Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| The song is clearly a criticism of the military of Switzerland for providing security services for the World Economic Forum. DragonForce recognizes the political nature of these activities as an overt attempt to justify a standing military presence in a country otherwise marked by neutrality and non-alignment. It is therefore unsurprising that the Gruppe für eine Schweiz ohne Armee (GSoA), or 'Group for a Switzerland without an Army,' will likely use this song as a rallying cry to push "through the fire and the flames" of active conscription and militaristic traditions. | |
| Skee-Lo – I Wish Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I always felt like this song was a not-so-subtle criticism of Communist regimes. The symbology draws on Western values that overcame oppressive anti-materialism, especially in the post-Cold War context. It then becomes the optimistic anthem of an unrestrained world era. | |
| No Doubt – Just A Girl Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I love the American music, especially the No Doubt. I am sad to hear the horrible accountings of American wo-men though, I think it is much bad that they are not allowed to drive at night or go into the public without a male. My country was like to this before the glorious march of freedoms and I am sad to know that these rights are not even in the America. | |
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