| Jeffrey Lewis – Slogans Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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A chronicle of teenage angst and self-esteem. "Stones fought all the beetles" is almost certainly a reference to the musical contrast between the Rolling Stones and the Beatles, both British Invasion bands of the mid to late sixties that defined the taste of a generation's culture and counterculture, even well beyond that time when they were brand new, while "cigarette butts fought the needles" probably refers to the contrast of tobacco smokers versus drug addicts, possibly in terms of what form of litter they would generate in the aforementioned park. "Shoguns and Hulk Hogans" might just be a clever rhyme but probably refers to the rising popularity of Japanese media in American teenage subcultures through film and, later, anime, while Hulk Hogan was an iconic wrestler whose career peaked in the eighties and early nineties. |
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