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| Vampire Weekend – Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa Lyrics
| 12 hours ago
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@[GreenEyedOptimist:55493] I’m with you mostly in this. I also think that “Ottoman” off of “Contra” is about this same couple — who are somehow still together. Also the contract of the Kwassa in this song stands pretty directly opposed to the Pseudo Baroque style of Ottoman. |
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| Vampire Weekend – Ottoman Lyrics
| 16 hours ago
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I imagine this is a follow up to Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa. A couple, with significant cultural, ethnic, and economic differences, who had a random hook up in Cape Cod, are still, somehow together. He is meeting the parents, commenting on their furniture and sweating through his tweeds — seeking unlikely approval—maybe asking for a hand in marriage. |
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| Hole – Awful Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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Also under number 1--I am well aware of the spiritual "Swing low, sweet Chariot." The line is, of course, a play on this as well. Love, being an 11 year-old girl in 1975--with aspirations of rock n roll stardom, may have indeed seen the break-out success of the Runaways as a moment of emancipation. There music may have been almost a sort of litany that she now rejects as "incorporation." |
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| Hole – Awful Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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Regardless of what Love has said herself...
Yes, it is about the marketing TO and OF young girls by the music industry.
1. "Swing Low Sweet Cherry" refers to Cherie Currie of the Runaways, arguably the first underage female rock stars to be marketed as sex symbols (also see, "Run away it's divine Let's run away, yeah, tonight"). If you don't know the Runaways--go listen. "Swing low" refers specifically to the way distinctive "Drop It Like It's Hot" style of dancing she used to do on stage.
2. "Let's start a fire, Let's have a RIOT! Yeah it's awful, It was punk, Yeah it was perfect now it's awful" It's hard to see this and not think of the Riot Grrrl! movement of the early 90's, which Love was (sort of?) part of. Of course, you will remember that Love punched Kathleen Hanna back stage at Lolapolooza on July 4, 1995--during Sonic Youth's set (see music and general news articles from the time, as well as Kim Gordon's biography "Girl in a Band"). So, she may be saying that Riot Grrrl! did less to empower young girls and more to "incorporate them," but maybe she remains positive on Riot Grrrl! while recognizing the "incorporation" of the general theme in later years--through acts like The Spice Girls, Meredith Brooks, some of the more forgettable "Lilith Faire" set, etc.
I doubt it has anything to do with some chump from Bush. That really doesn't make any sense. |
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| The Smiths – Ask Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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Love how Johnny Marr's extremely optimistic sounding guitar riffs can make the most depressing lyrics sound like a day at the fair. |
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