| Junior Boys – Count Souvenirs Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I wouldn't say it's about an lover, for me it's about coming home to an old version of yourself, a younger version that you now don't recognize. so, it's totally introspective. | |
| The Decemberists – The Infanta Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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About all the riot regarding the actual Spanish infantas, me, being Spanish, I just have to say that I totally doubt that this is based upon a real event. And it is not just that there aren't any elephants nor camels in Spain, but because there was no coronation of any Infanta in 1824; the two daughters of Ferdinand VII were born in 1830 and 1932. Secondly, the last Islamic Kingdom in the Iberian Peninsula, the Kingdom of Granada was conquered in 1492, so I really doubt that any wive of any Moor king would've been in the picture. And, talking about the situation of Spain in 1824, it was a year after the restoration of absolutism by Ferdinand VII and the armies of the Holly Alliance, and in America, the ongoing wars with the newly independent states that were once colonies. Meaning, it was not the time for partying with pachyderms. All that being said, I just think the song is a recreation of an stylistic fictional coronation that has nothing to do with Spain, albeit Collin himself had said so. In a way, to me, it even looks to me as if they were talking about a coronation à la indiènne, very clichéd, with the elephants and all the coronation paraphernalia. |
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