| Monster Magnet – Negasonic Teenage Warhead Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| @[laminatedeffec:48445] Also, the new alternative rock elite of the 90s meddled with Monster Magnet's career being a retro rock band when "all of a sudden" nobody wanted to hear classical rock music anymore. | |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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@[jware39:7111] This is very, very, VERY GOOD! Awesome interpretation and background explanation! I totally agree! When I went to this page this evening, I didn't expect to find such a gem! I like to add my thouhgts: First of all: 0) Could you provide a link to the original posting? That would be nice. I would like to speak to the author of this interpretation. 1) "First born unicorn" Little naive kids dream of unicorns, a symbol for purity, innocence, virginity. Unicorns do not exists. But its unicorns what California sells. And Hollywood was its first born unicorn. The use of this unicorn symbol represents (your interpretation of ) the line "Little girls from Sweden dream of silver screen quotations". Both symbols mean the same leading to "if you want these kinds of dreams it’s Californication". Unicorns = (Dreams of) Californication. 2) "Marry me girl be my fairy to the world" Unicorn = fairy tale = Californication. He speaks to those "little girls from Sweden" (being naive on Hollywood). If it were that easy and fairly tale-like as you think it is, why not buy me a star on the boulevard then. As easy as that. It disfigures the naivete/symplicity of that thinking, while simultaneously to some degree wishing for it (If it was that easy, he would marry her as his own fairy tale). Of course, that girl's own reality isnt a fairy tale with unicorns, since she is about to be a teenage mother, fishing for attention on facebook, while dreaming of unicorns and California. It's bitter sarcastic in the end. 3) What you say about the final frontier, Cobain, the sphere and that whole paragraph is just plain genius! Really! Chapeau! And thanks for sharing! I'd like to point out a little bit more the contrast between "And Alderon’s not far away, it’s Californication" and the famous "in a galaxy far far away". No, this Star Wars galaxy is not far far away, it's a Hollywood basement, too. 4) "Born and raised by those who praise" Although it might not be meant as a reference, this reminds me of a quotation in Fight Club "We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't." 5) "Destruction leads to a very rough road, but it also breeds creation." The walk of fame never seemed to me glamourous, frankly rather run down. Touristic shops at every corner, selling cheap drinks, cheap food and cheap souvenirs with Super Mans in run down costumes trying to make some dollars (the days of plenty are over). Think of the screen writers strike and how some studios leave or do not settle initially in Hollywood. But: In the end thats what LA always was right? Thats the whole essence of LA. That it invents itself constantly over and over again. Its a sprawl, renewing itself constantly. 6) "And tidal waves couldn’t save the world from Californication." So true: Check "gentrification" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentrification). It's the terminal station of everything that once was great. (Don't get me wrong, I do not try to make a political point here. Just trying to point out that authenticity will eventually attract non-authentic people seeking authenticity). "Tidal waved couldn't save the world from Californication = gentrification 7) "The last line would be by far too ambiguous for me to really throw my opinion on. Are you craving Californication, or are you craving to escape it? We strive to be good people but we always fall back to the ways of evil. We come to the point that that is what we're craving" Wow! 8) Thanks again! Really great. I greatly appreciate! |
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| Guns N' Roses – Rocket Queen Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Nice copypasta from wiki. Thanks for this great "interpretation" ( and thanks to the 4 idiots who liked it) | |
| The National – Fake Empire Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Did you ever feel kind of isolated and detached, while standing in or observing a dancing and cheering crowd (e.g. in a club)? For me, Fake Empire is about this feeling, but without judging it. Over all, the song is a melancholic one. Though it gets lighter and brighter from the beginning to the end, it starts like a sad song. The song is also about memories. It probably comes up to your mind, when you walk alone to the next subway station after having some drinks with a friend or two, when the night is just half way over and you observe some people that you can tell will stay out super late tonight, dancing from club to club like doing a gay ballet on ice. Doing crazy things like picking apples, making pies. Put a little something in their lemonade, because they are young and the night is young, too. They are tiptoe-ing through their shiny city, that isn't so shiny at all if you would look closely, with their diamond slippers on, that are only new bought shoes looking fresh for tonight. But it's more a description of the feeling of those people tonight. And you as the observer can see that and you probably think that these people are only half awake tonight, drunk by joy, in a fake empire that lasts one night, or until it is monday again. It is sad at first, but then you remember, when you had one of those nights with some of your back-then-best-friends and how great it was. No thinking for a little while, not figuring everything out, at least once again, please! (Since nowadays you always figure everything out). just go with the flow of the night and the joy. You remember these nights and the feeling you have lights up, just as the song does. It isn't a sad feeling anymore, but extremely melancholic, in a good way. And allthough, after all the years, you do know that they are only half awake in their fake empire, you value your same experiences and memories of your own personal fake empire, because.. you know... it's hard to keep track of you falling through the sky. |
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