| Robbie Williams – Ghosts Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I agree with the comments about how good this song is. Really underrated and hard to believe the by-the-numbers 'Place to Crash' was released as a single instead. I remember reading a bit about the writing of this song in the book 'Feel'. The chorus originally had lines like 'in the fairgrounds and the coffee shops' IIRC in the soft-spoken bits that became 'a long long time ago'. I think the jist was that when you remember a relationship, you tend to visualise specific moments and places and remember them vividly almost like you're trying to relive it; then you have to catch yourself and face up to the reality that those people, at least as they existed and felt at the time, are dead - ghosts. I think there's also something of a double-meaning to the term, as Robbie/the narrator seems haunted by these memories and regrets about what could have been - he's become hollow and joyless, in essence a ghost himself. It's interesting the way the song alludes to other heavenly bodies like stars and satellites towards the end. The way I see the 'satellite' line is that when we're young or in a particularly intense relationship we tend to idealise love and treat it as some amazing, other-worldly thing. The satellite is what's used to discover the mysteries of all the things in the universe we wonder at and don't understand. Now that the man is a hollow shell who's been burned by love, he's given up hope of ever trying to reach or understand these things - 'they're taking down our satellite'. 'I'll follow your star tonight' seems like a last desperate clinging to something out of reach and intangible. |
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| Akon – I Wanna Fuck You (feat. Snoop Dogg) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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What a load of preachy shite being written here. All he's doing is providing an accurate representation of how a large proportion of men and women in the western world think about sex. What's he basically saying here? He likes a girl for her looks and she likes him for his money and flash. That's essentially the basis for most romantic archetypes in our culture (Pride and Prejudice? Cinderella and Prince Charming?). Of course, he's honest about it and doesn't put it into flowery language and clumsy metaphor that tries to claim he's in the relationship for everything other than sex, so he gets dissed for being 'degrading'. He doesn't go all introspective and emo and go on about how he'd dual with a thousand men or cut himself a hundred times for the eternal love of a woman he's never met; he just wants to fuck her, so of course he must be a massive sexist, because heaven forbid men and women might sometimes just want to fuck for the sake of it, emotional connection and long-term commitments be damned. Such is life. |
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