| Lorde – Royals Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I'm assuming she "cuts her teeth on wedding rings in the movies" is indicative of the fact that wealth is frequently portrayed in Hollywood films, meaning that we live in a society that conditions us to want material wealth. Sometimes I wonder if that's all it really means. That is a very peculiar way of saying it, which brings more to mind than the fact that she sees them a lot in movies. I always hear another meaning in these lyrics. It evokes the idea of someone having an affair with a married man in the back of a movie theater. The choice of the words "love affair" later on reaffirm that idea in my mind. Maybe I'm just applying too much experience from my personal life here. |
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| Beirut – Cliquot Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Oh I was wondering if that was him! I thought mr Condon sounded a little unlike himself.. | |
| Lady GaGa – Government Hooker Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I think it's a funny coincidence that the ad on this page is of Usher showing of his new cologne. I really think this song is about the conditions that musicians these days submit to for fame. Their job isn't about the music- they are under a lot of direction and control of whoever pays them (I don't really know much about how the music business works. I just remember a few years ago how she was pressured to lose a lot of weight/change herself and all that). And I'm sure musicians/performance artists aren't given full creative license, but are forced to tweak things here and there to get the most public appeal. On top of all that, the musicians become popular subjects of adoration, entertainment, and scrutiny for millions of strangers. Then they almost always use their marginal power to endorse products they don't care about. One would have to feel pretty cheap after all that, selling oneself to strangers. | |
| Lana Del Rey – Video Games Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I guess I was overthinking it, but I saw two different messages in the song. It seems like she's in an unsatisfying relationship with a guy, where she's giving to it more than he is. He's used to her doing everything he wants for him, like dressing and acting a certain way. They've definitely known each other a while, and they have a lot of mutual friends ("watching all our friends fall"). She's getting tired of it, but stays with him, either because she's still attached to him, or she just thinks she doesn't deserve any better. A bit more metaphorically, I saw it as a commentary on trying to make it in show business. She has to sell herself, and demean herself by acting out the gender role of the fragile, dependent female in order to move ahead in a vapid industry in a male chauvinistic society. |
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