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| Nine Inch Nails – Metal Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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What is missing here is that this song is from Gary Numan's so-called Machine trilogy, which apparently eas loosely inspire by Philip K. Dick's classic novel "Do Androids Dream Electric Sheep?", which later evolved into the movie "Blade Runner". The book is significantly different than the movie in the sense that it intimates that humans have been destroyed and that earth is occupied by various models of human-like androids, the most sophisticated of which do not even know they are androids. It is a brutal dystopian world where "people" have to be hooked to mood machines to feel certain emotions, and where sociopathology and violence are the norm. The story cleverly begins with a cast of humans, but by the end of the book one is left with the distinct impression that even the humans are not really humans. So I think songs from Numan's machine trilogy have to be interpreted in this light. |
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| Queen – Too Much Love Will Kill You Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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To suggest this song was not given and henced owned by Freddie is stretching serendipity/coincidence to its limits, and requires the individual to not only completely ignore Freddie's plight at the time, but also the video that was released to promote it. The song was given to him to perform and is apropos in the extreme to his life, regardless of its original intent. The video for this song makes it clear that the performance of the song by Freddie was because it applied to Freddie ... the images in the video are almost all Freddie, a retrospective of his career, complete with an old black & white photo of Freddie .... a black white photo of Freddie only!!! The song was orginally written about something else, but obviously fell into the role of a final farewell to Freddie by Freddie. If it had been any other way it would have been the most egregiously inappropriate song to include at that point in his life. Think outside the box people. Freddie issues with this song a statement and a warning; he was a confused soul who got totally off track in his life and became a poster boy for the final realization that "wisdom through excess" is an oxymoron (others should heed). An incredible talent, an incredible loss, an incredible final statement to the world. Too Much love will kill you was Freddie's song as much as My Way was Elvis Presley's song, regardless of who worte the songs. End of story. |
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