| Katy Perry – Roar Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I haven't listened to her albums before, only occasionally hearing songs on the radio, but her recent performance of this song on SNL got me hooked. And I like the video. It is intentionally campy, but also symbolic, I think. Her failed marriage to R. Brand must be at the heart of this song, and the jungle is a stand-in for the 'strange and different' world that he pulled her into (different friends, different scenes, etc.). That experience left her feeling disempowered and having lost her personality and voice. In the process of moving on from that marriage, she's learned how to fend for herself more, regained her confidence and voice, and now 'we're gonna hear her roar' as she launches her new album and tour. In addition to all of the borrowed lyrics and pop phrases she loads into her song, the video has a neat Tarzan motif, and her outfit on SNL also reminds me of Raquel Welch in "One Million Years B.C.," in addition to Tarzan's Jane... |
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| Bright Eyes – Stray Dog Freedom Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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There's more meaning to the whole 1st verse, like ckad79's notion that the "Stray Dog" Freedom might be a metaphor for Iraq. My impression is that the stray dog is a metaphor for our own (domestic) freedom > freedom is a noble and true concept, which is recognizable when one acts in defense of our individual or collective freedom. But in general, US citizens' safe guarding of their own freedoms has lapsed, as in the Patriot Act and succumbing to the politics of fear. In essence, we've let some of our freedoms become emaciated and neglected, like this dog... There's a skinny dog In a dirty parking lot And he doesn't bite But he begs And he knows what's true So if you are, he'll follow you If you're headed home All the way So we let him finish Every dinner plate And we watched his tail say thanks, thanks, thanks And we tried to name him But he ran away Once he knew his freedom was at stake Our freedoms can still re-emerge and triumph, but these days they seems to just come and go, like a stray dog without a home. Anyhow, that's what came to my mind on repeated car-stereo-listenings... |
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| Priscilla Ahn – Lullaby Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I saw her perform in March 2007 (twice), and she introduced this song by saying that she herself had grown up in small-town Pennsylvania, and was eager to see life beyond that town. So it seems sort of autobiographical. She also mentions in between songs about how she drove to LA on her own, and that is was a sort of intimidating experience. So I think the song is also a lullaby to herself and young people like her who travel far from home and family, cope with loneliness in order to pursue a dream: patiently singing and writing songs in Hollywood, in hopes of making it big... | |
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