| Lily Allen – The Fear Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"I'm packing plastic" is definitely a reference to credit cards. Also, Will-doggy, I'm not a big fan of Lily Allen, but I do think this was some pretty okay song-writing. It's no Dark Side of the Moon or Bob Dylan or Radiohead, but it's far from awful. The song is not meant to be autobiographical; it is a comment on our self-absorbed consumer culture where young girls are actually programmed to think this way. The satire is intensified by writing from the first-person point of view of one of these young girls. Although the meaning of the lyrics is easy to grasp, I like how the very dark undertones of the lyrics are set to the blithe, bubble-gum tone of the music. That's irony, a poetic device. I like how during the chorus the background music gets more hypnotic and trippy when she asks questions like "what's real and what's right?" "how am I supposed to feel?" "when will things become clear?" and most importantly she mentions her growing uneasiness with it all, which dares to suggest that all these little celebutantes don't really know what's going on, but deep-down they MUST KNOW that something is wrong with the way they live... And then the surreal, trance-like effect goes away and it's back to the poppy beat of the verse so she can ignore her fear for a while longer. The best part (if you're looking for lyrical merit, Will) is when she says, "I'm not a saint, but I'm not a sinner." Which actually gets us into the territory of philosphy and ETHICS, and the real kernel of substance in the song. Even though the selfish way these young pop-princesses behave is terrible, they are not DIRECTLY harming anyone. So they aren't saints, nor are they sinners. That saint/sinner line along with the rest of the song ultimately raises the question to what extent are we all complicit in producing a society where girls think like this? And aren't we all just like them (to a lesser degree)? Most of us don't go around DIRECTLY hurting each other, but most of us really ARE "on our own little mission" selfishly chasing after $$$ money $$$ and beauty. If we saw a drowning child in a nearby lake of course we would rush to save it, but then again, we often spend excesses of money on new shoes and watches and iPods etc., while other people in the world are dying of starvation and don't even have access access to basic medicines or clean water. So Will-doggy, it is a song exposing the faults of our consumer culture, which makes it better than 90% of the tripe on the radio. |
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| Devendra Banhart – There's Always Something Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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the joy part is wrong. It should be "Jo." "my hands clapped to Jo's new songs and I know she's somewhere singing well we believe all her songs and I hope she knows how much we do." It's a reference to Joanna Newsom |
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| Sigur Rós – All Alright Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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These lyrics are totally lame. I liked it better when I couldn't understand anything he was saying. |
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| MGMT – Time to Pretend Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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