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| The Animals – It's My Life Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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> It's My Life is interpretable as a song about conservative fraternal white collar corrupt privateer values
Ridiculous interpretation. Stretched so thin you can see through it. |
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| The J. Geils Band – Centerfold Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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@[Booboobabies:25804] Personally, I don't find it sexist so much as just the way that guys think when they're coming of age. The narrator has a crush on a girl in his homeroom class and can't get up the nerve to talk to this girls he idealizes ("She was pure like snowflakes / No one could ever stain / The memory of my angel / Could never cause me pain"). He misses his opportunity and later finds her sexualized and commoditized in a magazine like Playboy, causing this painful fall from grace for her in his mind ("Those soft and fuzzy sweaters / Too magical to touch / To see her in that negligee / Is really just too much"). Later on, he accepts the world for what it is and arrives at a more balanced middle ground, where she's both sexual and a human being that he doesn't want to share with a crowd ("It's okay I understand / This ain't no never-never land / I hope that when this issue's gone / I'll see you when your clothes are on // Take your car, yes we will / We'll take your car and drive it / We'll take it to a motel room / And take 'em off in private.") So he still wants to sleep with her, but he doesn't want her to be everybody's plaything, the way she is as the centerfold in the magazine. That seems like a pretty human response to a common experience in life (not seeing a former classmate in Playboy, but idolizing someone and then finding out later they were human and flawed and accepting the reality instead of continuing to hold them out as an ideal of perfection). |
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