| Public Enemy – She Watch Channel Zero?! Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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And Adorno far earlier than Baudrillard. And who else but PE have had the balls to even pick this up, let alone the cahonas to critique it with a funky groove? It's the distortion in representation, the implicit authoritarianism of all mass media. Women have always been targeted. In many ways, they're most susceptible to it, still today. Over a decade later and now it's not just women. It's not just TV. But all printed and online media. |
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| Radiohead – All I Need Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Just to finish you off as it were: WHEN A SINGER SAYS "YOU" IT DOESENT NECESSARILY MEAN HE IS SINGING ABOUT A PERSON. WHEN HE SAYS "I" HE ISNT NECESSARILY TALKING ABOUT HIMSELF. REMEMBER THIS!!!! In lyrics or poetry, the you is the muse, but it doesent need to be a person. And it hardly ever is in radiohead songs. ...recall the lyrics for Creep and muse about how ridiculous what you wrote sounds! |
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| Radiohead – All I Need Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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BlakeNewLand - I am fully aware of the possible redundancy of fixing anything on the voice's gender. I'm not doing so - but as the song is for me so clearly about personal relationships, to not speak in terms of lover and beloved without pronouns is...daft. I fail to see how this song is anything to do with individual and society, and I'm evaluating it in its own terms. Interpreting in its reference to the previous track on the album playlist is your first mistake, tbh. |
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| Lisa Germano – The Day Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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For me, this is about the agon of morning. Waking up; apprehending how each new day offers so much possibility - of joy, of meaning. But this all depends on your agency, which eludes you when you're down and low. The residual recognition of failing and having failed to live fully each day, as time continues on, each sunrise and sunset, only deepens the powerlessness and loss. |
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| Radiohead – All I Need Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This is a really beautiful song with an incredible crescendo. For me, it's about a one-sided, co-dependant relationship where the lover has been neglected/forlorn/badly hurt for a long time, is aware of the unhealthiness of not ending it with his beloved, but has nothing and nobody else in his life to sustain him, so he stays - even though doing so only continues to hurt and atrophy him. The finale expresses this conflict, where his dependency/pain (heart) subjugates his rationality (head). |
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