| Herman's Hermits – I'm Henry The VIII, I Am Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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I don't find the song disturbing, I find it comical. I believe it is intended as a parody, primarily on marriages and failing relationships. I find it ironic that the singer claims to be Henry VIII simply because he is the 8th husband of the widow next door, not because he is Henry the king of an 8th generation. I'm not fully versed on the English history, though a simple Google search informed me that Henry VIII had trouble getting an heir to the throne because none of his sons and daughters would have kids, though Edward did take the throne at early age. Thus comes the idea of "failure." In the song, the woman had 7 Henrys of failed marriages, no William or Sam, so the singer is destined to be the 8th failure, similar to King Henry the 8th struggling to get an heir. The fact that the singer sings this as a nursery rhyme brings to light it's comedic heritage, considering how such a lovely tune ironically symbolizes the failure of marriage. Although he seems happily married to the widow next door, the allusion to the king emphasizes this upcoming failure. |
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| Meghan Trainor – Lips Are Movin Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| @[LexiTheMess:34894] Of course I don't mean it's directed toward all guys, just in the general sense. | |
| Wolfmother – Joker & The Thief Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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I think the song is about imagination and letting your mind wander to bigger and better things in life. The song plays as if the writer/singer is talking about a fairy tale. Up front, the singer says "I'll tell you about the story of the joker and thief in the night" which gives the song a sort of fairy tale background, but also brings in the listeners to think they're becoming part of a fairy tale. I don't think of the joker as the devil, nor do I think the thief is inherently a real thief. I think the thief is an example of someone who is stealing your mind or stealing your life and making your life into a fairy tale-esque life. The song says: "Can you see the joker flying over, As she's standing in the field of clover, Watching out everyday, I wonder what would happen is he took her away" The women is looking out over the land, and she's seeing something miraculous, something that is not ordinarily there, because she's letting her imagination wander. She's letting fantasies and dreams into her mind, stealing away her reality. I think the song is about letting your dreams and thoughts wander, and believing in fairy tales whether they are real or not. |
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| Jessie J – Bang Bang Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| I don't even wanna start with this one... there's so many things wrong, I don't know where to start. | |
| Ke$ha – Blow Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| @[jca0:6211] I think it's actually the opposite. Honestly, cults (or the illuminati or whatever you believe in) aren't s overt as Ke$ha. Ke$ha inherently brings about secret society symbols as a way to mock the cults. In fact, I think this whole video is commentary on secret societies. She isn't physically trying to start one; instead she's pretending to be part of a secret society as a way to show what America is inherently becoming. Most secret societies are inherently secret (hence the name), where Ke$ha is inherently overt in revealing these symbols. Thus, she makes it look like she's raising a cult, but she's mocking those in society who believe she is taking measures of a secret society. | |
| City Sleeps – Prototype Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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This song can be interpreted from a love perspective, but I believe the meaning is more than that. I think this has more to do with the Information Age and the loss of humanity when we get enthralled in the Information Age. The fact that the singer/author "made her from pieces of stars" and "he gave her lips from wild orchids when she came out of the cocoon" recognizes the creation of her through an unrealistic means, as if she was processed or generated, rather than born, similar to robots or computers being created by mankind. Hence she is the "prototype" or robot f this age, and this idea is further rendered from "I programmed her with eye color" and "she will do it like a machine." The fact that the singer tells this in the first person recognizes that he is indeed a human, yet he creates her aside from the way humans normally wouldn't. And then there's the idea of dystopia thinking. "A sky that burned not to return" and "I can barely see the sun, now it's blue" recognizes that the world isn't the same as it should be. Instead, it has been rendered and changed from the past, become this sort of future dystopian computer world where we create robots to have human thought. Essentially, the world is Earth, but no longer fruitful, so the author makes this "prototype" as a way to bring some sort of humanity into the world. The author/singer tries to program nature into this "prototype" with "majestic emerald green" and "her heart is a red balloon." Yet, all of this majestic emerald green and red balloons are just metaphors of the past, feel good images that are now only artificially rendered (they no longer exist in the new world, so the author/singer tries to bring them back so that the world is still Earth-like and not all robotic). Lastly, I interpret this song as if the author's immediate youth was lost. The author/singer seems to realize the world has changed in the past, and he's bringing back his lover into a world that has vastly changed through information and industry. It's not so much that he ost his love to another man or woman, it's the fact that the world has changed and taken away everything Earth-like, and this "protoype" he creates is his way of re-experiencing the past world in an artificial way. He wants to go back to the past world of "wild orchids" rather than be consumed by machines, so he makes the best of what he has, even if it's artificial. |
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| Collective Soul – Shine Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| I like this song because it resonates with God, even though it's not a religious song as others have acknowledged. Rather, it's a spiritual song. That's not to say I don't like religious songs. I am religious myself, but I like this song strictly because has a spiritual meaning. If you watch the music video, you see a bunch of punks rocking out, and that doesn't strike them as religious. However, the rocking out and spiritual calling is THEIR way of acknowledging faith. You can tell through the guitar revving and the chanting that they are very passionate about what they sing. They may not be religious in any way, but it's their way of finding God, and although unstructured, I think it holds a lot more meaning than just complying to religion because it is so personal. It's like finding that silver lining, hence the name "Heaven let your light shine down." | |
| Hozier – Take Me to Church Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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I highly doubt this has anything to do with being gay. The singer is a guy, and he has several references to "she" throughout the song so that you know "she" is connected to "my lover." I can see where that is picked up through his attending church and being forced to conform, but you can't deny his references to "she." His lover is a women, plain and simple, and so we must then ask ourselves, what is upsetting him so much about church? Definitely not an easy one to tackle, but there is a very atypical reason for his beliefs. I have heard this song before, and I don't typically like its message too much, nor do I think it's a strong message, or deep. I find it a rather shallow comparison between conformity and true love, because although it's a comparison between the two, it's a rather atypical comparison (I will get into this as I continue writing). "My lover's got humor, she's the giggle at a funeral" references nonconformity to the original church manners and pragmatics, since laughing at a funeral isn't something that is agreeable or accepted in society. It may happen, but it isn't typical church mannerisms. The artist uses this example to initially bring us to his disapproval of the church doctrines. The artist is obviously disapproving of the church. He says "Every Sunday's getting more bleak" and "I'll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies, I'll tell you my sins and you can sharpen your knife." The artist doesn't believe in the church because he feels that the church tells everyone not to sin, yet sin is unavoidable. The artist feels a lust toward his lover that he cannot stop. His references to her are "I should've worshipped her sooner, If the Heavens ever did speak. She is the last true mouthpiece." He worships his lover, even though idolizing someone other than God is a sin. Yet, he cannot avoid this lust and attachment to his love, because love is too strong. The artist is in a dilemma about his true love: should he worship her who "tells [him] 'worship in the bedroom'" or should he worship the church? The author uses oxymorons like "There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin." This reference represents the sin of their lust together, but the same lust that gives the love, and that they cannot avoid. Essentially, the artist is saying that their humand love is trumping spiritual love, and he tries to find every way to claim that the church is pulling him away from his true love ("I'll tell you my sins and you can sharpen your knives"). The references to "deathless death" represents his willingness to die without the fulfillment of love. Very hard to explain, but the oxymoron is referencing his current state- love lust or love God? He loves his lover more than he loves God, and he cannot deny this. This is the dilemma he finds himself in. The reference to paganism "If I'm a pagan of the good times, my lover's the sunlight" is an example of using another religion to state the same point: that his human love is stronger than his spiritual love, no matter how hard he tries to conform. And he's mad because the church doesn't agree with him loving someone human more than God, and he feels there should be guidance. No one is guiding him spiritually, so he follows his lust, unable to conform to the church doctrines. He's somewhere in the middle. He wants to conform, but he wants his love even more, and he's dissatisfied with the church because it cannot grant him God and lust together. He'd rather sacrifice to his pagan "goddess" than conform to God's word, which is one of the biggest sins that is unavoidable in his eyes. |
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| Meghan Trainor – Lips Are Movin Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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Meghan Trainor is back promoting narcissism and radical feminism. Narcissism is in the textual reference to her own song when she says "Tell me that you're not just about this base." It's funny, because she writes a song "All About That Base" indicating how it's great to love curvy women and not those "skinny bitches," but then she goes and says she doesn't like guys who only like that "bass"? She promotes radical feminism by proclaiming that guys are liars and cheaters. She says, "You can buy me diamond earrings and deny-ny-ny, ny-ny-ny, deny-ny But I smell her on your collar so goodbye-bye-bye, bye-bye-bye." She has the precedent that men are wrong from the beginning, no matter how good they may seem to treat a women. The fact that she thinks guys lie because "they're lips are moving" shows that she has no faith in men at all. Yet, she references "bass" all the time to flaunt her image, even though she only holds stereotypes against men. "You only love me when you're here You're so two-faced, two-faced babe." This line is blatantly ironic, because she talks about men wanting women only for their image as something wrong and bad, but her multiple hypocritical references to "bass" represents that her image does in fact matter, and she uses this to her advantage, even though she holds it against guys. Basically she's hypocritical because she is saying that an image shouldn't matter when it comes to love, but her references to "bass" contradict her lyrics, as in "I gave you bass, you gave me sweet talk." And I love this part: "Tell me do you think I'm dumb? I might be young, but I ain't stupid." "Ain't stupid" is a contraction in itself, because the word "ain't" is often classified within the lower social class, (i.e. less educated) yet she is using this less educated word to say she isn't stupid. Now I'm not saying whether she is stupid or not (I doubt she is, she is only another product of the music industry), but the point here is that she says she's not stupid while using very poor pragmatics. Overall, I feel this song is a narcissistic approach to promote radical feminism. Meghan is always doubting the guys with her lyrics and calling them liars, and she implies that women are always in the right position to do as they please, while men must respect them and do them justice to even be considerable. I love how she uses no valid reasons to prove that men are liars besides "their lips are moving." And what's ironic in that is that women are traditionally the talkers and gossipers, yet she lends that title to men without any real hard evidence besides that they talk. When men talk, they lie. That's basically what she is saying, along with the fact that her image shouldn't matter, even though she will reference and promote her own curves, pretty much defeating the purpose. |
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| Selena Gomez – Love You Like a Love Song Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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Honestly, this is dumbest simile ever: "love you like a love song." How can you have a comparison between two subjects when both subjects contain the same word in them? In other words, you can't understand the word "love" better through the phrase "love song." This is just another example of the music industry making a catchy song with horrible lyrics in order to attract its listeners (which it does pretty well because of its beat). Whatever meaning this song has, it is clouded by the horrible repetitive simile that makes absolutely no coherent sense. |
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| Meghan Trainor – All About That Bass Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| I think the fact that she says "skinny bitches" really hurts her credibility for the audience she is trying to convey. This puts her no higher than anyone else on the music scale. | |
| Taylor Swift – Shake It Off Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| Actually, I find it more along the lines of "complying to the contemporary music industry." | |
| Taylor Swift – Shake It Off Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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I disagree. This song completely contrasts what she's done in the past, and if she's trying to be herself then why would she be "tired of all the rumors" and make a song completely different from her previous ones? My perception of her has changed after watching the music video. The music industry has doomed us all. |
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| Meghan Trainor – All About That Bass Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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We all know what the song means, it's pretty obvious. But let's take a step deeper into the lyrics and music video. This is a direct indication of what the music industry has become. Sure, she's not romanticizing skinniness as most singers do, but she's romanticizing having a bit more weight just to grab the attention of an audience. That's all this song really is- an attention-seeking song. It has nothing to do with weight or anything- she's essentially using the media to get attention just like everyone else, hence the catchy music and lyrics. It's kind of like reverse psychology, but reverse psychology by using the same concept. Her lyrics might advertise being yourself as opposed to being a big star, but they imply the idea that she's still using the media to put herself over the top. Essentially, I see this song having the same message as Lady Gaga or Katy Perry- seeking attention at its best. |
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| Iggy Azalea – Fancy Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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9. There is no fast lane from L.A. to Tokyo 10. I'm pretty sure (not completely sure, but pretty sure) that we don't eat gold... |
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| Iggy Azalea – Fancy Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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Facts I've learned about Iggy Azalea: 1. No, she's not a realest and I doubt she even knows what a realest is... 2. How can she give give lessons in physics if she can't speak proper English? 3. She claims "bringing '88 back," yet she wasn't even born in 1988 4. She's not even that fancy; I've seen tons more fancier singers 5. She tries to rap but it sounds like a mix of pop and auto-tune 6. Her voice is squeaky and she sounds like a little girl who is trying to have swag 7. I don't need tips on how to spell her name I-G-G-Y 8. She makes a catchy song with content that isn't appropriate, so children hear the song and think they can sing it because the music business makes it sound like candy to their ears I can't get this song out of my head, and it's dehumanizing and brainwashing our society. Yet I can't stop listening to it. I hate how much I like the sound of it. It's sad and disgusting what the music business has become. I pity our future. |
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| Lorde – Team Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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Does this song remind anyone of the similar themes that the Hunger Games portrays? I think they are very similar in regards. This song not only references aspects of the Hunger Games, but also ideas of the Lord of the Flies and Survivor. Many relatable themes to poverty, disconnection, and having the most of what you have. It also shares in a similar relation to Lorde's other song, "Royals" in that she treasures a non-materialistic society. First and foremost, I find this song reminiscent of the Hunger Games. The music video almost looks like a district and the lyrics imply disconnection, "We'll live in cities you'll never see onscreen." These are indicative of the various districts that are rarely seen on-screen and only noticeable once the yearly Hunger Games come. "Not very pretty, but we sure know how to run things" represents the willingness of the districts to run their cities despite being in poverty. There are also various references to the actual games. "Wait till you're announced, we've not yet lost all our graces" indicates the selection process to be put in the Hunger Games and the fight of death. "The hounds will stay in chains" represents the district resisting an uprising against the greater capitol, but could also mean the assembly line of teenagers from each district that are awaiting to be thrown in the Hunger Games. "Everyone's competing for a love they won't receive" references the winners of the Hunger Games and how the winners only get food and recognition, but do not get a release from the tension caused by the capitol. "Shards beneath our feet" and "so the cups got broke" indicate the reaping and entering of the teenagers into the Hunger Games. The title "Team" and the lyrics "We're on each other's team" can represent each district and/or the alliance of the districts to cause a rebellion and thwart the rich capitol. Overall, I find the theme of this song to closely connect to the Hunger Games, but it also connects to Lord of The Flies and Survivor by the idea of disconnection and trying to survive. Also, the lines of "Call all the ladies out, they're in their finery" reminds me of contestants- this can be applied to the contestants that dress up for the Hunger Games or contestants in a game of Survivor. Either way, the indication is there and it is evident that people are treasured within each respective society. |
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| Bastille – Pompeii Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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This song is not about Pompeii. Yes, it mentions Pompeii in the literal sense, but the literal lyrics of Pompeii are used as a metaphor to describe a dystopia. We first see this very image when we see the actor in the music video staring out at the city in front of him- the city is not of Pompeii, but a modernized community with tall buildings and lights. It represents industrialization and the movement toward a dehumanized environment. The real metaphor becomes apparent when the singer says "But if you close your eyes, does it almost feel like nothing changed at all?" This is the reference to Pompeii, and the connection of today's society falling apart just like Pompeii did several thousands of years ago (or however long it was). And the siner references as if the modern day is like Pompeii when he says "Does it almost feel like you've been here before?" While the modern city isn't falling apart, but is rather being built up, it is being built up by industry, technology, and pop culture. All of these are dehumanizing us today. So while metaphor is about Pompeii falling apart, we are essentially falling apart by building up a materialistic society. This is referenced by "We were caught up and lost in all of our vices" and indicates that we, not a volcano, are destroying our own society by cbecoming more materialistic. "Where do we begin? The rubble or our sins?" brings back the metaphor of Pompeii and connects it to the modern day. Pompeii may have become rubble, but today it is sin and materialism that is destroying our society. This is a rhetorical question that is meant only to reference the metaphor and relate today's modern society to the destruction of Pompeii. While not direct references, "And the walls kept tumbling down in the city that we love. Great clouds roll over the hills, bringing darkness from above" can connect Pompeii to a multitude of problems that occur today, some of which include illegal immigration (walls kept tumbling down), pollution (great clouds roll over the hills), and more modern natural disasters that also cause walls to tumble down. I believe these lyrics are also indicative of America. While not specifically mentioned, America is referenced as "a city on a hill" by many former Presidents and has been an American theme since the days of early America. Bastille's lines mention "in the city that we love. Great clouds roll over the hills" which imply that America (likely New York City) is the modern country/city perceived as destructible. This could be looking too far into it, but implications from the lyrics are there. Overall, this song uses the destruction of Pompeii to describe the destruction of cities today (likely American cities), which leads us into a dystopia. In the video it shows the guy running into an arcade, which brings forth the idea of materialism. I believe the video is implying that if there really was destruction in the world while at an arcade, people would be so enthralled in the arcade that they would become oblivious to the destruction happening around them. This is the destruction among us today. People, especially American people, are distracted by the materialism around them that they forget what is important in their lives. This is what leads us to our modern downfall, which is arguably far worse than a natural disaster that destroyed the city of Pompeii. So where do we begin: the rubble or the sins? |
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| Lorde – Royals Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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You're on the right track. I think these lyrics indicate a willingness to accept what you have rather than to accept materialism. Not only that, Lorde dramatizes mediocrity. She is overly content with what she has and believes that she has more than a music industry/pop culture simply because she isn't materialistic. First of all, I think the stage name "Lorde" is very much symbolic of this song. The word "Lord" references authority, control, and power, and Ella (her real name) uses the name Lorde almost as satire- she creates the name to treasure the normal everyday life. It's like the expression "one man's trash is another man's treasure." Lorde finds treasure in living a regular traditional life, not a dramatized materialistic life in society. Lorde says, "We don't care, we're driving Cadillacs in our dreams." This line references a willingness to look beyond materialism and realize that materialism isn't really treasured. I will coin Train's lyrics from their song Calling All Angels, "In a world where what we want is only what we want until it's ours." This is basically Lorde's premise. She dreams beyond materialism. Lorde contradicts herself but within reason. She mentions "we'll never be royals," but later mentions in the same syntax "let me be your ruler, you can call me Queen Bee." Lorde wants people to see her as a lord who advocates non-materialistic attributes. In other words, she wants to be a queen, but she doesn't want to be a royal queen. She wants the responsibilities of a queen, but she does not want want the extra materialistic incentives. Lorde says "We're bigger than we ever dreamed," indicating that she believes in herself and believes in being a non-materialistic queen. Basically, she implies that she is very royal not because of materialism, but because she admires the duties of a queen and a successful society aside materialism. Unfortunately, everyone else is blind to the fact that Lorde is a ruler and would rather have these materialistic incentives, which is why she states "But everybody's like Cristal, Maybach, diamonds on your timepiece." In a nutshell, Lorde knows she will never be royal, but she believes she is royal in her own parameters. She says "And we'll never be royals" and follows this up with "Let me live that fantasy." She may not want to be materialistically royal, but she certainly takes royalty in her own values and willingness to lead aside from materialistic qualities. In an ironic kind of way, Lorde is very royal, just not the typical royal everyone longs for. And ironically, her lyrics have become part of a materialistic music industry. It's become a popular song even against her willingness to accept royalty. Quite ironic, but the song sells. And I'd bet most people think the song means more about being materialistically royal than it does about being yourself and finding out what is royal in your personal life. Typical royal society that adds to the overall irony the song portrays. |
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| Ke$ha – Blow Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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I find this song to be somewhat of an oxymoron. I think it represents creativity, but distinctively creativity after destruction of a non-creative society. I feel this is one video where the music video needs to be taken into context- without the music video, Ke$ha's interpretation is hard to take in. The music video really guides the interpretation of the lyrics. In any case, creativity is clearly presented- the glitter, unicorns, the rainbow guns. All these add to the idea of creativity. Lyrics also indicate an interpretation to creativity. "Go insane, go insane, throw some glitter make it rain on him" is indicative of not only creativity, but change. Ke$ha's indications are not only to bring creativity, but to destruct a modern society that doesn't treasure creativity. "It's time to lose your mind and let the crazy out" also indicates one to be creative and different, and not to be like everyone else. "This place about to blow" indicates Ke$ha's willingness to destruct a modern society in order to reconstruct her creative society based on glitter, unicorns, and rainbows. In essence, she is metaphorically stating that people should not follow the everyday norms- they should go above and beyond to be different and creative. "It's time to kill the lights and shut the DJ down" also indicates the willingness to destruct the modern normal-doers. The introduction of James Van Der Beek in her video is suggestive of society destruction of everyday norms. Van Der Beek is an actor and he's previously acted as a fictionalized version of himself (according to Wikipedia). He's an actor who follows a scripted screenplay, unlike Ke$ha who wants to be more spontaneous, open, and creative. Ke$ha's head-hunting of Van Der Beek suggests that creativity prevails over realism. She wants an unpredictable and abstract future, far different from the realism Van Der Beek portrays. I might be overanalyzing the lyrics, but this is my take on it. |
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| fun. – Some Nights Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I'm going to make a completely different analysis about what this song is about. I look at it as man who is trying to fit into a world that won't change. He is a down to earth man trying to fit into a world that relies on media and propaganda, but overlooks what is right and just. Furthermore, the world is getting worse and not subject to change their actions. This man must either comply to the world or be alone in solitude with his own beliefs. "Some nights I stay up cashing in my bad luck" indicates his lifestyle from the start, though "cashing in" indicates that he wants to remain in his "bad luck" because he doesn't want to be anyone other than himself, no matter what the world urges. "Some nights I wish my lips could build a castle, some nights I wish they could just fall off" indicates the two-faced world he must live in. Often he wishes to comply to worldly affairs for better luck, while other times he wants to remain himself, as that is who he is. He has this internal battle within himself where he cannot figure out his decisions or himself (thus the relevance to war indirectly). "But I still wake up, still see your ghost" indicates that he is willing to live to bring back what the world used to be without all the media-driven propaganda and hostility that fulfills the world today. "I was never one to believe the hype, Save that for the black and white I try twice as hard and I'm half as liked, But here they come again to jack my style." This is one of the most relevant passages of the song within this given analysis. The man is "not one to believe in hype" which indicates that he doesn't believe in the media or propaganda around him. "Save that for the black and white" indicates the people of the world around him which he distances himself from, and the same people who follow the media and propaganda because they believe it will provide them a better life. "I try twice as hard, but I'm half as liked" indicates the man's willingness to change, but the world continuing to ignore his changes for a better place. "But here they come again to jack my style" indicates the people who follow worldly affairs are taking over those who believe in themselves and ignore the media, thus destroying individuality. "That's alright, I found a martyr in my bed tonight" is the man's recognition of someone who died for their individuality and fought against the media and propaganda which is currently spoiling the earth. The man is considering himself as better off because he has not been dead, but remaining alive would mean complying to the worldly affairs. The whole song is a constant battle of the man's individuality and the man's willingness to comply to worldly affairs. He doesn't want to lose recognition as himself, but he is afraid to die as a martyr. Throughout the song he contemplates what he should do, but there is no right answer. You must die for your own rights, or give into something you don't believe in. If he fails to choose a side, he remains in solitude, where he is now. Many other lyrics indicate this. "The other night, you wouldn't believe the dream I just had about you and me" is the man imagining a utopian world, one free from all the media, propaganda, and sadness that currently surrounds his regular lifestyle. The whole song works as a monologue into a man's thoughts on how he can keep his own individuality while remaining in a world that fosters everyone being the same. |
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| Train – Calling All Angels Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| The "football teams are kissing queens" means that football players are so engulfed in winning their games that they fail to put God and everything else first. Therefore, they're missing out at what makes life a good thing. | |
| Fall Out Boy – The Carpal Tunnel of Love Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| The mockingbird is also a reference to the overall song being a mock about a loveless relationship. | |
| Fall Out Boy – The Carpal Tunnel of Love Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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A great song to analyze. I feel the overall meaning is a relationship that two try to make work even though it's a relationship that will fail because it is based off of lust rather than love. Yet, the song mocks this idea by its trendy frenzy catchy beat. Right from the start we hear "we take sour sips from life's lush lips" indicating a "sour" relationship, in other words, one that isn't working. The "lush" lips indicates that the relationship is based off of lust of lips (or the taste) rather than actual true love. "And we shake shake shake the hips in relationships" I believe indicates the two lovers trying to "shake" off all the doubts hoping that the relationship will get better. "Stop by this disaster town and you'll put your eyes to the sun and say 'I know'" indicates that the relationship is a "disaster" and the two involved know about it, though they stare at the sun, hoping for a better relationship even though they know it won't happen. This again indicates the phrase "You're only blinding to keep back what the clouds are hiding." "And we have started singing just a little soon, we're throwing stones in a glass room (moon)" indicates that the relationship has gotten farther than it should have gotten, causing it to become chaotic (chaos is also referenced by the random lyrics and upbeat of the song). "We're so miserable and stunning" is an ironic line because the song is really upbeat when it says this, and it comes off as an oxymoron (miserably stunning). Basically the lyrics read the irony of the relationship which is beautifully miserable (thus the upbeat), which indicates that they aren't happy about the relationship but they are happy to try to make the relationship fail, despite it not actually working at all. Reminds me of a teenaged relationship for the sake of having a relationship. "Genuinely cunning" is another oxymoron-like phrase indicating that the two lovers are both genuine to each other because both in the relationship try to make the relationship work without telling the other about how badly it is going, even though in retrospect their slyness is represented by their dislike of the relationship in which they fail to tell the other about. "We keep the beat with blistered feet"- they try to make it work even though deep down inside it doesn't "We bullet the words at the mockingbirds"- A metaphor for breaking the rhythm of a relationship, much like how shooting a mockingbird breaks the mockingbird's song and innocence (as in the book To Kill A Mockingbird). Overall, this song features several oxymorons which are put together to explain a relationship on a pendulum. The relationship is overall negative, but the lovers try to stay positive and hide the negatives so that it looks like they love each other (with the catchy beats, and positive words) when in reality they hate the relationship deep down inside. Both lovers try to ignore the facts about the relationship failing and try to make things work, thus there is a forced balance, as you see in the oxymorons. |
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| Jenna Rose – My Jeans Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| It's about the joys of being a preteen girl just embarking on her adolescent journey. | |
| Ke$ha – Boots and Boys Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Furthermore, she is mentioning boys as if they are materialistic, as they are compared to boots. Look at the lyrics: "I gotta say it I wear em both so pretty as I walk in the city" indicating that she wears boys like she does boots. This represents the idea of material love. Furthermore, as C4turdayz says the song is girly, but mainly because Ke$ha is referencing how teenage girls are boy crazy and basically build relationships with boys for unintended meanings. This isn't a song about human love, but rather the materialistic world we live in and how people (primarily teenagers) prize the material world over true love. Lastly, Ke$ha could very well be indicating that the material world is seen as a better gift these days rather than mutual internal love. The lyrics "Im keeping quite the colletion/ Take nothing less than perfection" indicates how we are becoming spoiled, worldly, and much more materialistic in the world today. |
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| Ke$ha – Blow Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| HairyPalmJoe, I won't comment on the fact that Ke$ha can't sing, but what I will comment on is that I believe she has no intention of writing a song that is deep. Certainly the song is deep if you look into it as inkdahl claims, however, he also claims that this song represents the teenage life of today, and therefore, no deepness is needed within the lyrics. That's the thing with Ke$ha. I believe she purposefully makes her lyrics shallow, but the lyrics are just so radically shallow, they come off with a deep meaning. She is representing life as it is today and obviously people will view it differently, but she makes her songs catchy and simple because that is what the world is becoming to represent: a simple shallow world representing the pop culture. I think inkdahl has the right intention. Whether she's mocking or she's a representation of this kind of shallow acts, I don't know, but I believe she's indicating that the world is becoming this way no matter what we do. | |
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