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| Raein – Tigersuit Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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before you start feeling too good about yourself, you should read the lyrics of 'From 3 to 1 in 2 and 4'--which you didn't comment on, of course. |
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| Raein – From 3 To 1 In 2 And 4 Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I have always thought of this song as an indictment of myopic scene politics, the Romans and the slaves perhaps standing for those 'in-the-know' (the upperclass of the scene, whose politics are supposed to be made self-evident by their status--as 'Romans') and the much maligned new-commer (or noob, who has no status or is defined by a lack of status--is a subject of the 'Romans'). There is also, I think, an argument that scene politics re-create the class (and perhaps sexual) politics of Late-stage capitalism ('lifestyle supremacy' seems to call upon the tropes of advert driven consumer capitalism); the self-evident image of superiority afford the 'Roman' classes, the rest defined by solely by their lack. In a sense, it microcosm upon microcosm--and not a little pessimistic. But this is a song that is ultimately self-critical, the narrator implicates himself as well as the nameless 'Romans', suggesting that only through a sort of collective action/recognition can things change--rather than a lament, this is a call to arms. |
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