| Alanis Morissette – Princes Familiar Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song is about how important a fathers relationship is with his daughter and a father should be good to his daugher because she will look for a husband who treats her like her dad has. This is true in real like too. This song is also about the type of husband that Alanis is looking for. These 2 things are seperated by the even and odd numbered lyrics. In the songs lyrics, the 1st, 3rd, 5th and 7th verse's desribe what she is looking for or wants in a man while the 2nd, 4th and 6th verse's describe how a father should treat her daughter, so that she will look for those same traits in a man resulting in a more loving, healthy happy relationship for his daughter. |
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| Alanis Morissette – Joining You Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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tapmusiconly really understands this song and interprets it extremely well here. I totally agree with the interpretation and feel like I couldn't have written it better. "This song is about people who don't think the way most people do. If you listen to Alannis at all, you notice that her songs are completely nonconformist, this song being one of the prime examples. I think this song is about a friend of hers, who is obviously one of these people that think differently. Because thinking outside of mainstream "groupthink" tends to make you the subject of ridicule, rejection and accusations of insanity, he is obviously experiencing difficulties relating to others (specifically his mother, who has left this panicked message on Alannis' machine). Often the only response left to these different thinkers is (at least the threat of) suicide to fend off these attacks, especially when dealing with people who are "close" to them, but clearly can't relate to them. The message causes Alannis to reflect on how unique he has always been, and how he has been an inspiration to her to think outside the mainstream thought patterns. She obviously remembers specific instances where his different mindset made a difference to her, and how this truly endeared him to her. In the chorus(es) she takes some examples of the facts or portions of peoples lives the mainstream holds most important (i.e. projections, bodies, successes, incomes, obsessions), and turns them around for him. She is reminding him that he doesn't need to equate his personal worth to these hollow values. In fact, she states that if people (in particular "we" = she and her friend) were actually the sum total of these values, she would probably join him/her in committing suicide. It is affirmation that because he doesn't think this way, that these values are truly not what makes you a worthwhile human being, he is okay, he's not the one who's crazy. Finally, she is telling her friend that they are not alone. Telling him that they need better memories, etc, is telling him to go back in his mind to the things she is recalling, so that he can hold on to those times when the two of them connected on that deeper level. At the end, she is telling him that she'd like to get back to that kind of relationship. She probably has the same frustrations as him. I use "him" arbitrarily, although in my mind (warped as it may be) I see the friend as a guy. It could very well be a girl as well. But you get the point." Alanis is highly intelligent and she clearly has a gift to be able to articulate her brilliance into words in songs. This is my favorite part of the song as I can so relate to what she is saying here: "You and I we're like 4 year olds we want to know why and how come about everything we want to reveal ourselves at will and speak our minds and never talk small and be intuictive and question mightily and find God my tortured beacon we need to find like-minded companions" This is one of her best songs in my opinion. |
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| Alanis Morissette – Joining You Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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tapmusiconly really understands this song and interprets it extremely well here. I totally agree with the interpretation and feel like I couldn't have written it better. "This song is about people who don't think the way most people do. If you listen to Alannis at all, you notice that her songs are completely nonconformist, this song being one of the prime examples. I think this song is about a friend of hers, who is obviously one of these people that think differently. Because thinking outside of mainstream "groupthink" tends to make you the subject of ridicule, rejection and accusations of insanity, he is obviously experiencing difficulties relating to others (specifically his mother, who has left this panicked message on Alannis' machine). Often the only response left to these different thinkers is (at least the threat of) suicide to fend off these attacks, especially when dealing with people who are "close" to them, but clearly can't relate to them. The message causes Alannis to reflect on how unique he has always been, and how he has been an inspiration to her to think outside the mainstream thought patterns. She obviously remembers specific instances where his different mindset made a difference to her, and how this truly endeared him to her. In the chorus(es) she takes some examples of the facts or portions of peoples lives the mainstream holds most important (i.e. projections, bodies, successes, incomes, obsessions), and turns them around for him. She is reminding him that he doesn't need to equate his personal worth to these hollow values. In fact, she states that if people (in particular "we" = she and her friend) were actually the sum total of these values, she would probably join him/her in committing suicide. It is affirmation that because he doesn't think this way, that these values are truly not what makes you a worthwhile human being, he is okay, he's not the one who's crazy. Finally, she is telling her friend that they are not alone. Telling him that they need better memories, etc, is telling him to go back in his mind to the things she is recalling, so that he can hold on to those times when the two of them connected on that deeper level. At the end, she is telling him that she'd like to get back to that kind of relationship. She probably has the same frustrations as him. I use "him" arbitrarily, although in my mind (warped as it may be) I see the friend as a guy. It could very well be a girl as well. But you get the point." Alanis is highly intelligent and she clearly has a gift to be able to articulate her brilliance into words in songs. This is my favorite part of the song as I can so relate to what she is saying here: "You and I we're like 4 year olds we want to know why and how come about everything we want to reveal ourselves at will and speak our minds and never talk small and be intuictive and question mightily and find God my tortured beacon we need to find like-minded companions" This is one of her best songs in my opinion. |
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| Alanis Morissette – Thank U Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This is one of many great Alanis songs. "Transparent dangling carrots" defined = a dangling carrot is something that is just out of reach. Farmers used to hold a carrot on a string in front of a donkey to get it to behave a certain way like moving forward or in the direction of their choice. A transparent dangling carrot is a dangling carrot that you cannot see. They are every where in American culture. The song is about her going to India, having realizations and gaining clarity about both her life and culture, while gaining appreciation for the simple things most of which do not cost money. The song is about these things and much more. The song is brilliantly written. |
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