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| Utada Hikaru – Tippy Toes Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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This song is very disturbing, and it's meant to be. It's meant to cause a righteous churning in your stomach and does a good job at it. As others have pointed out it's obviously a woman talking about her inappropriate relationship with a family man. The protagonist knows what she's doing is wrong but she can't help herself, hell she doesn't even try to resist. She LIKES that he's married, it makes him more desirable.
There are a few tools that Utada uses to increase the drama and morally disturbing effect of the song. First there's the suggestion of willful and knowing transgression. E.g. she call's her thoughts of him "improper visions", she says to "be careful when you close the door", because she knows that he's "married and has a family too". She knows what she's doing could ruin these peoples lives but she doesn't care, at least not enough to stop. Second, this willful commission of sin is made even more disturbing by her evident religious hypocrisy, referring to her sexual fantasies as "visions" she references how "heaven knows she needs a prayer", and even directs the adulterer to "pray that they (his family) don't hear" him -as if God would cooperate with such a request and assist their schemes! Third, there's the suggestion that she's to some extent praying on the man's vulnerabilities, saying "What a perfect life they think you've got, right?/Problems kept inside, look neat and organized/What you need in life is some wonder/A new friend with visions like you". She is actively seducing this guy, telling him that she sympathizes with his pressures, she understands the real him while his family neglects and misunderstands his feelings; she suggests that she is the solution to these feelings, that she can comfort him if he'll spend some time with her and indulge the "improper visions" they both have. Fourth and last point, she even admits to herself that she isn't serious about this guy; she doesn't even try to justify her actions by saying she loves him but calls their affair "a great INTERLUDE". She has no intention of turning this into a committed relationship, for her this is a fling and nothing more. She worries that "once the thrill subsides" for the guy he may stop seeing her, but regardless either way she fully plans to stop seeing him once the thrill subsides for her or once he's caught by his wife and his family leaves him.
It's also worth noting that the music's tone adds to the drama and disturbing atmosphere as well. The base drum adds a sensuality to the song. The synthesizers, however, darken that sensuality with sounds that could have come out of a horror movie, note for example the dark droning sound just before the line "improper visions of you", it really heightens the dark atmosphere. |
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| Utada Hikaru – Workout, The Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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Utada is capable of writing deep and serious songs but has also proved time and again that she doesn't take herself too seriously and she will write completely random lyrics for the fun of it e.g.: "Hello, my name is Utada like lady-dady-dady-da", "used to be a Virgin now I'm with Island Deaf Jam" etc.
This song has some of the silliest and most random lyrics ever and you all are trying to interpret some serious and consistent hidden message. She's just trying to convey having fun and letting loose at a party, dancing with anyone who's willing to get crazy for a little while with her. There's nothing deeper than that and there doesn't have to be. I mean "Rediscovering the tomb of Tutankhamun”? You don't get much more random than that. The songs randomness is purposeful, she's describing herself having silly, crazy fun so the song is silly, crazy fun too. Some times songs are just meant to be fun, they don't have to be interpreted as a logical and chronological narrative.
PS, those who are trying to say the song is about having sex, sex is not a taboo subject for her by any means, however there's no evidence that this is what she's talking about here. She is referencing dancing flirtatiously/dirty dancing but there's no reason to think she's talking about actual coitus. But if you insist that's what this song is about I shutter to think what she must mean by "two times, three girls, four guys" 0.o |
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| Utada Hikaru – Colors Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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I think this song is the closest I'll ever come to experiencing synesthesia. You know the difference between Utada and most American pop singers? Her songs are beautiful. |
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| Utada – Me Muero Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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It's about enduring the loss of her lover with chemical assistance. |
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| Utada Hikaru – This One (Crying Like A Child) Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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What a powerful song! People sometimes fall in love with musicians, authors, etc. This song makes me think that maybe that isn't so crazy. After all artists often reveal a lot about themselves through their work; their art becomes like a window to their thoughts and I can see how you can end up really feeling like you know them personally. I think the human heart just needs to love. Even if you know you could never have a chance with someone, this will not necessarily stop the heart from becoming linked to that person. Yet the person won't even know you exist, you're just a face in their crowd. It's the ultimate unrequited love isn't it? |
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| The Slackers – Soldier Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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You gotta love Vic's songwriting skills. This song makes police brutality sound sexy as hell. |
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| Superdrag – Doctor's Are Dead Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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I think this is my favorite song from Superdrag and it is nothing less than a poem set to music. All four verses have the same syllable counts, line one: 14, line two: 10, then line three: 11. The themes are medication/drugs: 7 occurrences, death: 10 occurrences, girlfriend/relationship: 14, seasons/time periods: 6. There's a lot of alliteration everywhere: "in many ways, Her Holidays, are Holier now, still I wonder How she Came, Covered in a Capsule, Cold and deCayed on the Colonnade etc.
The emotional content is very strong: frustration, loss and regret and nostalgia for a romance that has passed; there's a deep sense of depression almost to the point of insanity. Even when he was with her, he was depressed, but at least he was not alone then. "It takes time to rewrite [find] the reason I get out of my bed," "I go out of my head, I drown in my bed." |
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| Utada Hikaru – Exodus 04 Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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This song is about a young woman moving out of her parent's house for the first time to live with her boyfriend (this is OUR exodus). Her parents are concerned that she's not ready or that he isn't right for her but she is asking them to trust her to take care of herself now and not to worry too much.
This is one of my favorite songs from Utada and the best song on the album; there's lots of imagery and the song has a strong hip-hop undercurrent. |
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