| Kate Bush – Army Dreamers Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| its like the old joke isnt it - to join the army is to travel to fascinating places, meet fascinating people, and kill them. | |
| Kate Bush – Wuthering Heights Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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pretty obvious that this is the first few chapters of Wuthering Heights, from cathy's point of view. i love it |
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| Kate Bush – Wuthering Heights Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| i read the book at college and hated it with a passion because over-analysing every word drove me mad. now the songs reminded me, im going to read it again, and this time without a highlighter. | |
| Emilie Autumn – Ghost (Poem) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Shes in a relationship and its more serious to her than it is to the other person? hate to state the obvious, but i figured someone should start it all off. |
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| Jack Off Jill – Devil With the Black Dress On Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I dont know if its anything at all to do with, but *the devil in a black dress* is a direct quote from a sisters of mercy song (temple of love) in which she plays the part of evil luring the guardian angel away and causing the temple of love to come falling down. i doubt its connected, but i had to comment. this is also a seriously good song. what people dont seem to get is that something like Angels Fuck is in a different style to this, and if thats your style then of course your going to think its better. but its a matter of style and i think the two are incomparable, its like saying Britney is better than Mozart because more people sing *oops i did it again* on the train than those that hum the third symphony for strings... its just stupid. |
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| Emilie Autumn – Gothic Lolita Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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i think people are going at this the wrong way, arguing over whether its a song about sexual abuse or a song about Gothic Lolita fashion. there are obvious sex references, but also obvious gothic loli references (like the title)... i think that the song is comparing how the two scenes fit together - and when you think about it, the fashion could be interpreted as kind of sick. i mean, dont get me wrong, i AM a part time gothic loli, and if i could possibly afford it i would be a fulltimer. the trend isnt actually named after Nabokov's book, the word Lolita actually means *Young Girl* and its been used as a girls name for many years. the gothic lolita fashion and its accociated subcategories (especially sweet lolita) basically do involve dressing in a childish, yet revealing and fairly sexualised way, similar to the Maid trend in tokyo. when my mother first heard of the trend she felt it was a bit wrong dressing and acting like that, because a person who finds schoolgirls or little children attractive is not the kind of person you want to spend time with. however, a quote from another lolita i have talked to fits nicely - "all women are sexual in the eyes of some people. what the lolita trends do is give us power over how we are viewed. the Gyaru (western girls) are sexualised in a way which is chosen by the male dominated celebrity and media industry, wheras lolitas dress in a way that appeals to them individually. we do this for us, we dont care whether men like it". the verse *But ruffles and laces And candy sweet faces Directed your furtive hand I perfectly understand * suggests to me the links between the two - the persona of Gothic Lolita tells her abuser that she realises its her fault shes been abused, and that she understands that by dressing like that, she was attracting trouble. this is how many girls who have been abused feel (has anyone heard Suzanne Vega's "Luka"?) so yeah. the way i look at it, this song looks at the lifestyle of the Gothic Lolita, mixing this in with the other use of the word Lolita - a young girl attracting a much older man, as in the book. Emilie Autumn is heavily influenced by the japanese lolita style, in both her looks and music, and as has been said before, there have been rumours about trouble in her childhood. could it be that through experience, she has melded these two ideas together because of the matching names? |
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