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| MGMT – Kids Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I think "it's a family of trees wantin' to be haunted" is about the trees wanting the human race to go extinct so the trees, nature, gaia, can live again with simply the memory and ghosts of humankind. |
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| CocoRosie – Rainbowarriors Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Well, as the person above me said about the significance of "two-spirits" in certain Native American cultures, I would also go along with queer reading of this song. It seems like CocoRosie is creating a mythology about about queer people in general, and this queer god or hero of sorts, Rainbowarrior, like Hercules or something, kind of along the lines of "The Origin of Love" in Hedwig and The Angry Inch. I mean, they're singing about looking hard for the "rainbow trail deep inside ya" and "rainbow love" and fighting for rainbow freedom in general (come on, connect the dots). Not to mention the video has Bianca in drag (she actually makes a really hot boy). |
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| Tori Amos – Big Wheel Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I'm thinking this song is about a woman being in an oppressive relationship (how novel, Tori...).The "boy" is not necessarily abusive, but just spiritually abusive (considering her his "posession" and considering himself a "pro") in his patriarchal misogynistic treatment of the heroine. The heroine in the song has been "drinking down" the dude's "pain" but now she is confronting him, serving as one more manifestation of the liberated empowered female archetype Tori tends to embrace in her music.
Similarly, the song could perhaps be a confrontation between Tori and her critics, this "boy" being a sort of personification of them. In the song she states she certainly doesn't "need" their cash and won't allow "shade" to be thrown on her. Perhaps an angry response to the cringe-filled Beekeeper which got ripped to shreds by critics and fans alike? |
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