| Marina and the Diamonds – Oh No! Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| The song views these "hard-working people" as basically being lost, with a messed up sense of priorities. | |
| Marina and the Diamonds – Oh No! Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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She IS looking to stop it. Don't want cash! Don't want car!... I JUST WANNA CHANGE. ("if you are not very careful, your possessions will possess you"). |
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| Marina and the Diamonds – Oh No! Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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OK, most of you guys are objectively wrong. The thing that has confused you, perhaps, is that there are implicitly two voices in the song - a repressed voice and a self-aware voice. The latter starts out the song with the lines "Don't do love, don't do friends I'm only after success Don't need a relationship I'll never soften my grip" Then the liberated voice comes in: "Don't want cash, don't want car Want it fast, want it hard Don't need money, don't need fame I just want to make a change I just wanna change (x4)" The repressed voice is the voice of the person who is obsessed with success (notice that in the video to this song dollar signs come up when she says "success") and basically money. The liberated voice is her shrugging off those instincts and moving into a deeper self-awareness. "Don't want cash, don't want car... I just wanna change". i.e. I just want to live a real life, make real connections to people and productive activity. Hence: "If you are not very careful Your possessions will possess you TV taught me how to feel Now real life has no appeal It has no appeal" I like the lines: "I'm gonna live, I'm gonna fly, I'm gonna fail, I'm gonna die, I'm gonna live, I'm gonna fly I'm gonna fail, gonna die, die, die, die" Acceptance of failure and consciousness of death are the impossible acts for the mentality set out in this song. Making that transition means a genuine personal transformation. After all "If I fail, I'll fall apart". Also: "I know exactly what I want and who I want to be I know exactly why I walk and talk like a machine" She walks and talks like a machine because she is caught up in mindless careerist ideology/production relations. Like those people who are obsessed with being "professional", etc. A number of points in this song seem to bear relation to marxist thought, I think. |
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