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| Stereo Total – Comme Un Garcon Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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The song makes even more sense if it is taken to explore one subject's gendered complexity. Regardless of the biological sex of the artist, she is explaining that there are attributes of her personality that can be gendered in 'both' ways. So, if you weigh the maleness and femaleness of one person, what do you end up with in the end? a boy, or a girl? But does using that language really make any sense at all? I am curious as to whether the artist self-identifies as trans, not that she necessarily needs to to make her statement... I really like this song... |
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| Yeasayer – 2080 Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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There's definetly a celebratory aspect in the refrain, but it's a celebration that is bittersweet; as made evident by the contrast between versus and chorus. If the majority of the song has us shifting between this celebration (of sorts) and a deeper melancholy, the artist then moves to resolve this tension with the last verse by entertaing the posibility of addressing the melancholia and pathologies of (our) society by a shift to a more rural, agrarian lifestyle. Which I read (crudly) as the "dude, let's start a commune" conversation. Really, great stuff. |
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