| Sex Pistols – Pretty Vacant Lyrics | 6 months ago |
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Don’t mistake it for apathy “Pretty Vacant” is defiance in disguise. Released in 1977, the Sex Pistols weren’t declaring themselves empty. They were calling out the real vacancy, Parliament. The monarchy. The men in suits smiling for cameras while Britain unraveled. Mid-70s UK was chaos, soaring inflation, IMF bailouts, and unemployment lines full of kids with no future and no patience. But politicians just kept grinning. Kept lying. Kept asking for calm while offering nothing. So the Pistols responded: “We’re so pretty, oh so pretty… vacant.” It wasn’t about being clueless, it was about refusing to fake it. “Pretty” mocked the polished image of the elite. “Vacant” exposed the hollow institutions running the country. This song wasn’t nihilism, it was clarity. A spit in the eye of a system that asked for obedience without delivering a future. They weren’t vacant. They just stopped pretending anyone else was full of answers. |
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| Fu Manchu – Mongoose Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| The song is referring to Mongoose BMX bikes as Scott Hill explained in an interview, “Mongoose is a particular BMX bike, one that we used to race around on when we were kids.” Of other note the California Crossing Album contains Hill’s El Camino, his first surfboard and his girlfriend at the time. | |
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