| Flobots – Superhero Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| @[thenike5:36941] – How on Earth does someone interpret a Flobots song as being anti-gay marriage? Let alone this song? Many Flobots songs are the MCs (Jonny 5 (Jamie Laurie) and Brer Rabbit (Stephen Brackett), namely) putting themselves in another person's shoes to tell their story. They'll even rap from the perspective of the "bad guys" of the narrative at times, such as in "Handlebars," where Jonny 5 plays the part of two friends who drift apart and go on very different life paths. He sings from the perspective of the humble, compassionate, revolutionary friend who hasn't forgotten his roots and the people on the ground and from the perspective of the corporate, backstabbing, media-manipulating political figurehead who forces a surveillance state, hinders people's civil rights, and threatens nuclear holocaust as things escalate. Obviously, Jonny 5 is not speaking from his own experience in either of these cases (though he clearly closer resembles the former). He's telling a first-person story that shifts between different characters to get the message across. | |
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