| DNCE – Toothbrush Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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"Toothbrush" is a fun song tweaking the hairline difference between flings and full-fledged relationships. The singer and some sweet girl are starting out and the song discusses a small and important moment in all relationships: How serious are we? Good question. They're young and having fun, but maybe ready to double-down and go the distance. They don't need to keep it hush. She doesn't need to rush out of his place in the pre-dawn. It's a song about the guy accepting that the relationship is real and that maybe he's at least a little in love. At the heart of their relationship, the couple is already pretty involved. He says: "No need to question next time we meet, I know you’re coming home with me, home with me... I know you’re gonna stay the night, stay the night." The toothbrush is a concrete way to acknowledge the new status they share and their newfound romantic attachment. Toothbrush at your lover's apartment? May as well be married and watching each other grow old. While light and fluffy with bubblegum perfection, "Toothbrush" transcends itself by riffing cleverly on one of the core themes in new relationships. The musical lightness hides a deepness that DNCE captures quite well. There's more to dental hardware than pearly whites. |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – 1979 Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Here's some additional ideas: Perhaps "Zipper blues" are play on the common problem people have with zippers, that they sometimes don't connect together very well. A broken zipper strikes me as a strong metaphor for the gap that many people feel with society. Connection comes so easily for some, but when it doesn't one acutely feels that something's missing and wrong. Zippers should work!... as should social creatures like humans. The chorus is all about connection problems. The singer has problems connecting with others, and yet accepts this situation, claiming not to even care. This claim is probably a lie, of course. The next few lines of the chorus are all about how they're going nowhere and doing nothing and never will be anything... classic existential crisis stuff. The singer dwells a great deal on these issues throughout, crying out for help, or perhaps just bemoaning the horror of the situation of these zipper blues... One other comment: Justine Has anyone considered the 20th Century book by Lawrence Durrell titled "Justine" ? I understand it's considered one of the modern classics in literary romance. The wiki on it reads, "Almost all of the characters are erotically obsessed with Justine. Justine uses the others’ obsessions to satiate her own demons, often emotionally destroying those involved." Those sentences suggest to me that Justine in Durrell's novel probably suffers from all the existential rig-ama-roll that the singer brings to this song. Moreover, Durrell's Justine is written in a convoluted narrative that strikes me as right up The Smashing Pumpkins's song-writer's alley. "Justine" plays with time and space freely, and it's abstruse; just like this song. Here are the wiki article and Amazon.com link for Durrell's "Justine": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justine_%28novel%29 http://www.amazon.com/Justine-Alexandria-Quartet-Lawrence-Durrell/dp/0140153195/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1294209124&sr=8-2 p.s. 1979 === Of The Best! |
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