| Devo – Midget Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| As told from Bob1, this was made from a jam session they all had one day while Bob1 was practicing a guitar riff. As it's shown in their 2nd film, "The Men Who Make The Music", this was meant to parody the sort of mindless dumb 70s disco and rock n roll dance music of their time, and generally making a mockery of the majority of the mindless high-selling music of the 70s. | |
| Devo – Chango Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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Mark said in an interview (talking about a lost demo of "DEVO Corporate Anthem" that originally had the same lyrics as "Chango") that they tried to send a demo of this to Idi Amin (Dictator of Uganda at the time), but they (obv) never got a response. The message they paired with the tape was, something along the lines of, "this should be your new theme song!", so I guess this song is truly about Idi Amin? Search up more on him if you don't know about him, interesting guy. Aside from that, the interpretation by karritevoyager that is probably somewhere below this comment is my favorite non-Idi Amin-explanation. |
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| Devo – Huboon Stomp Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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The "Huboon" is a non-natural mutation of a human, a painful surgical procedure meant to deal with some sort of biological defect(?), that ends in the individual's something-something being cured, but left scarred, looking like a monkey. Visual representations are shown in Booji Boy's "My Struggle" book, and the "Secret Agent Man" video, as the spankers of another DEVO character, "Bawl-Baby". The word is a combination of human and baboon. Not much to comment on the song's lyrics itself, it seems to be a rouge huboon going postal because of the mental and maybe even physical torment done to him by society. His surgery left him, as mentioned before, scarred, looking ape-like, and it seems everyone thinks this is the funniest shit ever (pretty realistic), and laugh at him and his un-human looking features. He's done with it all! He's gone disney-villain mode, but more 90s-disney-villian mode, as he's taking it upon himself to rape and hurt the people who did him so wrong before. Not an admiral revenge, but revenge nonetheless. He did it to himself! And somebody's gonna be real, REAL sorry. It all seems to be a sort of satiric commentary of these anti-hero characteristics we see in movies like "Falling Down", where someone is pushed beyond their mental limits, and snaps, resulting in a murderous rampage. The "I did it to myself! Now somebody's gonna be sorry..." line seems to indicate that DEVO is laughing at these type of people, who seem to take the only slightly lower-hand they've been given in society that they might have even inflicted on themselves, and think it's a perfectly good reason to go apeshit (ha) on people who probably have been given a similar hand, and are simply following the sheep, laughing along with the other people, even if they don't find it funny, just to seem more normal and similar to the others. No one's in the right here, but someone's for-sure more in the wrong. TLDR; mr huboon baby goes batshit crazy on the people who did him wrong. again, no one's in the right, but someone (mr huboon baby) is way more in the wrong for the way he's reacting. anyway, gonna acknowledge rn, that I probably might've got alot wrong here, so feel free to correct on what you see is wrong, just incase. |
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| Devo – Clockout Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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I think it's generally about a small business owner (in a live version from San Francisco, 1977, he refers to it as a deli?) who is simply taking a nice vacation, clocking out, ya know? The "head down to my lungs and move my feet" line is possibly about him dancing to music and/or in a club (or self-fellatio, wouldn't be that strange of a lyrical topic for the spudboys). "Oh me, I got all the secretaries, down on their knees", workers! They're this guy's workers, and they're on their knees, (doggy submission as DEVO would say,) for their boss, following all orders like obedient dogs, cogs in the system. "Look at em scoot." is also about his workers. Told in later lines, this guy's doing some real bad stuff, maybe he messed up and he's now got his employees scooting around, trying to save public and/or private image by gathering his company's act together, scooting around on the floor, gathering his dropped papers for him. "I got my money, tied up in stoOck!" is what it says it is, pretty literal. "I got ma mammy take my doggie for a walk." he's got his relatives (or even workers, hell, it doesn't sound crazy for this kind of dude to have his own mom be a cog in his clock) to do the work for him, while he get's a nice, relaxing vacation, free from his responsibilities. "Oh me, I got the biggest little business, down on the block." again, pretty literal, but he's got the biggest little business in his town, dominating all the other little start-up companies. "I'm makin' sales, hand over fist,-" again again, pretty literal. He's makin his sales through unconventional ways, hacking the system, hand-over-fist exchanges, stepping over the little guy to trade money with the big guy. "I've got a vacuum just to sweep between my hips" not too sure what it means, my best interpretation is a fleshlight of some 70's sort (song written back in 1974-75), that, or the less-dirty and less-devo-like interpretation, a sort of loofa to clean himself automatically. "Oh me, I got a six-figure unit, that's never been kissed." pretty literal, but he's got this 6-figure house of some sort, that's he's bought, but never even visited! purely for cosmetic and decorative purposes. Reminds me of that one story from years ago about that like 7 million priced mansion that (i think?) Kanye West bought, but never lived in. "Take my advice, hear my decree, ohh I'm afraid the future's gonna be, maintenance free." Pretty relevant to modern times, see the big studios wanting to have AI writers do all the work instead of having actual humans that have to have rest-time and be payed for their work! This dude seems to be a bit afraid of that change though, I think he takes pride in having obedient servants work for him, and is afraid that he'll have no workers to take advantage of, what an almost cartoon-level villain we got here! But not so-cartoonish when you realize there's alotta people out there who are like this, de-evolution is real people! "I got the big brush for your bowl, baby, can't you dig my plea?!" Pretty simple if you know DEVO's 70's vocab that they frequently used in their writing. The "big brush" is his dick, and this sexual partner's "bowl" is their asshole, or vagina, who knows (I'm betting on asshole, my evidence is Jerry's hand motions when he does this song live). And the whole "dig my plea" thing is him wanting sex from this partner, maybe even pleading with them to accept his, uh, "big brush". And last but, yeah probably least, "Gonna gag, unless we clock-out" is probably just referring to how "hard" he thinks he works, and how "deserving" he is of a break, talking about how he's about to gag and pass out from the "stress". TLDR; 'greedy business guy who takes advantage of his workers goes on a vacation and (probably) has sex' is my interpretation of this absolutely banger song. (also, I'll acknowledge this rn, but I know I probably got alot wrong here, but this is my, currently, best interpretation of this song.) CLOCK... OUOUUUUUTTTT!!!!!! |
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