| Nine Inch Nails – Less Than Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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@[Jackmerkev:22731] I feel like thats some unnecessary reaching to try and wrangle away from the obvious- all the language in this points very readily to it being an anti-trump/trump supporter piece. Plus Reznor has been vocally anti-trump iirc. Really though as far as you need to look is 'Did it fix what was wrong with you?'. That's about as obvious a reaction to 'Make America Great Again' as you can get without literally saying 'did you makeAmerica great again'- it's riffing too clearly off the 'there was nothing to fix in the first place', ideology. I don't know, obviously interpret how you will but this feels like a situation where surface level reading is as far as it needs to go in context. |
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| Scissor Sisters – Monkeybaby Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| Man is there like any way this isn't extremely racist? Surprised they haven't gotten called out on it. Coz like. Wow | |
| Nine Inch Nails – Metal Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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The A.I side of it is pretty doubtless considering the writers apparent statements but I reckon it's too literal to take at face value though- I'd say its using the analogy of the android to create a platform of a person struggling to be what society wants of it. The A.I wants to be human- the American male has to become a 'man'. The entire language of the piece is so masculine and the lyrics are pretty hard hitting condemnation of western society. So I'd running with it being a prod at how western society is pretty much this big meat grinder that men feel they have no choice but to throw themselves into- the narrator feeling like this fake person, this android, crawling through what he is meant to be (I should learn to be a man, like You), but secretly wishing he could tear out the connection he has to it all, destroy the need and rip the wires from the wall. I just get this awesome feeling that the whole piece is is this horror show examination of how toxic 'masculine' culture is; strip back the layers and you get the twisting, fragile Mallory Heart at the core of every boy that is only pretending to be a 'man'. Am I real yet? Great stuff. Can't help but imagine the visual style of the opening sequence of the american Girl with the Dragon Tattoo being paired with this. |
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| The Irrepressibles – In This Shirt Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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First up; this song destroys me every time I listen to it. Usually my emotional reaction to a song lessons pretty significantly after a while, but god this really has stuck with me. It's just so genuinely plaintively longing and hopeless. Interpretation wise It's definitely Jamie McDermott's relationship with 'Jake' having come to an end, as others here have already noted. My point of contention is whether Jake has left him, whether they grew apart or whether Jake has died. Pointing toward Jake having left him is the fairly clear 'I awake in the night, to hear the engines purr'; he's waking up to the car starting up, with Jake leaving him in the dead of night. The 'of you and me ever changing, moving on now moving fast' also feels pretty definitive- two men gone their separate ways. And the thorn in his side, the shame and pride, could be that he knows he caused this to happen, he's somehow responsible for (or at least feels he is) the crane knocking down all the things they were. But the imagery of the note on the wind, and its burial, with the evocative links to earth and soil gives a feeling of death to the whole thing. And really the whole song's tone feels so final- 'I am lost', hearing the echo of his name on the wind. It seems more than having someone you love leave. Sounds like decay. So my thought would be that in his leaving, Jake dies, and Jamie never gets the chance to redeem himself, doesn't have the option to repair the relationship and is stuck in this state of perpetual self hatred. Bleeding for a year. Needing to tell him how much he loves him, but being totally unable to. Writing it in a note that he knows cannot reach him. Buried deep in the ground. Anyways, freaking love this song, especially how unabashedly gay it is. I'm normally not one to go in for the whole gay suffering trope, always looking for more positive portrayals in media for a slight self-worth boost/optimistic future, you know? But this set of lyrics is so damn powerful I'm willing to put that aside for a bit. |
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