| Bran Van 3000 – Drinking in L.A. Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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This is my all-time favorite hip-hop song, by one of the most diverse bands one will ever hear. Bran Van 3000 is one hip-hop crew who actually play their own instruments at their live shows! I feel this song is about wasting time. I think the Bran Van moved out to L.A. from Montreal in hopes of making it big. They come up with all these plans of how they're going to do it ("And Mike came over with a script suprise"..."Working on a movie...Yeah Right!"), but never follow through with them. They never write the movie script. They're doing nothing but drinking away they're days ("But we did nothing, absolutely nothing that day and I say: What the hell am I doing drinking in L.A.?") They're wasting they're money on beer, and not getting the big break the band always wanted. I think getting drunk is how they cope with their failure ("I got the fever for the nectar, the payback will be later, still I need a fix.") The Bran Man (Disalvio) realizes how sad this wasting of time really is (like in the lines: "I know that life is for the taking, so I better wise up, and take it quick."....and in "The payback will be later.") This song is also about the how Bran Man is trying to find his own identity. The Bran Man doesn't know what he wants to be, or who he really is. Just listen to the background vocals that the girls beautifully sing: "Who are you? Who are You?". It's a recurring theme throuhgout this whole song. They're whole experience in L.A. is a living hell. This song strikes a personal chord with me. I'm in high school and it always seems my peers are asking "Who are you?". Finding identity in high school is the most important part of the learning experience. I see lots of people acting like something they are not (Mainly kids that are in ghetto-wannabe and in-crowd cliques). I also see lots of dreamers who come up with big plans that they never follow through on (I have some drop-out friends like this). And there are many kids who spend all their time playing in their band, and hoping they'll make it big one day. Chances are they won't. Bran Van 3000 got lucky. This song became a huge hit, and deservingly so. |
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