| MGMT – Flash Delirium Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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One of the reasons I find MGMT at once fascinating, entertaining and disturbing (which is exactly the effect I think they intended) is because, unlike most pop bands today, they're not literal, and their lyrics are hard to interpret. I'm going to assume that, as with many good poets, they line their songs with multiple layers of meaning, so an eel can at once be a sexual metaphor (i.e. a penis) while also standing for, as some have said, inner-inspiration or a previous song (like "Electric Feel"). My interpretation based upon the combination of the lyrics and the video is that this is an anti-war song and an anti-modern culture song. MGMT is saying, "There's a disgusting war on, and even those people who are opposed to war or military culture are just kind of tuning out and immersing themselves in meaningless distractions, such as Facebook and consumer culture and scantily clad models in magazines, rather than truly speaking out and being outraged, as 60s culture did." In other words, there's been no vocal, viable alternative or opposition to war except a plastic, self-obsessed, consumerist culture. For instance, "blank dreams of the coming fun distort the odds of a turnaround" could mean that youth culture's fascination with banal fun (Facebook, television, beauty models) makes it unlikely there will ever be a "turnaround" to society that will result in an end to the wars and aggression. Instead, we're "inert." So why bother striving for some nobler purpose when consumerism seems to negate meaningfulness?: "why close one eye and try to pledge allegiance to the sun when plastic ghosts start terrorizing everyone" However, there's hope for us yet, as nature always aims for something better, some kind of growth and progress... "Plants as far as i know are still, still bending toward the light and if we dance until the heart explodes it'll make this place ignite" That said, the poster who interpreted the lyrics and the video as a reaction to the negative reaction from fans and music critics to their new album was probably on the right track, too, and I think both interpretations probably hold merit. |
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| Straylight Run – Dignity and Money Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Toolsheds and Hot Tubs is a fun song! | |
| One For The Team – Best Supporting Actor Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I have no idea about the meaning, if there really is one, but it's a fun song anyway. I like it! Here's a couple divergent anaylsis: At first I thought "I am the best of all supporting actors" is kind of a backhanded self-compliment, like, "I'm such a wonderful waterboy" or "I'm really good at catching that wedding bouquet over and over and over." After all, the lead supporting actor tends to be a cheerleader for the hero, and he's also the comic relief. He does not usually get the girl nor is he all that popular in and of himself. Usually, he gets saved or sacrificed; he does not take center stage. What confused me is when the chorus shifted to "you": "It's cute how you try to rebuild your life." But then I realized I was so, so, so wrong. "I am the best of all supporting actors" means the guy is dating a woman who can't get her life righted. He's "supporting" her through crisis and mishap and possibly even infidelity: "You, you're breaking the hearts of honest men" implies she's not so honest herself. He's doing this supporting to a fault; she can't get it right nor set things right -- "It's cute how you try to rebuild your life." Eureka! I'm golden. |
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| We All Have Hooks For Hands – The Man Trying to Outfox Us All Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Great song! I have this album; it's worth it to buy the whole thing. (Yes, I ate the whole thing!) I can't really confidently decipher the meaning, especially as it applies to the title, which is tough to connect to the lyrics. But let me take a stab here. It sounds like it has something to do with a non-repentant drug user who basically uses and abuses his true friends, and buys fake 'party' friends with drugs: "you held your ties with drugs and lies." There's also the line "you'll only escape for a little while," as in a drug trip. The rest of the lyrics, though, are tough to pin down. "But it's nothing; you're fighting for something..." Unless that line is sarcastic, I have no flippin' idea here folks and I could use some help god darn it thanks |
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