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| David Bowie – Subterraneans Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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As a philosophy grad the first thing this song makes me think of is Chomsky's linguistic theories. Chomsky argued that the human mind has an inborn faculty of language comprehension that recognizes the underlying structure of language, without requiring the content of a given sentence to be, itself, comprehensible. Chomsky's famous example is the sentence "Colourless green ideas sleep furiously." which, syntactically speaking, is a perfectly acceptable sentence, and is recognized by the mind as such - despite it's being nonsense. I've always wondered if Bowie was aware of this theory and cleverly making art out of science. |
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| Destroyer – Comments on the World as Will Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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The title of this song probably refers to Schopenhauer's "The World as Will and Representation", a ninteenth century philosophical text. That said, I can't really make sense of the lyrics in that context. |
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| Destroyer – The Sublimation Hour Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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The really great thing about Dan Bejar is that his lyrics are so layered that they seem to be about many things at once. This one is a perfect example. On one level it's about the music industry's, and consumers', fascination with passing fads. But that doesn't explain everything in the song. Exactly what, after all, does this have to do with sublimation? Bejar never leaves you fully satisfied with your understading of his work, the mark of a great artist! |
submissions
| Destroyer – The Sublimation Hour Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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The really great thing about Dan Bejar is that his lyrics are so layered that they seem to be about many things at once. This one is a perfect example. On one level it's about the music industry's, and consumers', fascination with passing fads. But that doesn't explain everything in the song. Exactly what, after all, does this have to do with sublimation? Bejar never leaves you fully satisfied with your understading of his work, the mark of a great artist! |
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