| Siouxsie and the Banshees – Hong Kong Garden Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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Siouxsie: "John came up with the riff, a fragmented riff and I wrote what I thought that riff conjured up. Impressions that I drew up of the East. It's called 'Hong Kong Garden' because that's a British colonial thing and as it's part of Britain it's neutral. Mixed in with this are all the factual things that have happened in Nagasaki and Hiroshima and the way the Japanese are fighting against the old and new ways - with Americanisation coming in. They are always having to fight back the trashy kind of thing that America put in Japan. And the same for the Chinese as well. And then there's the false impression that we get of these as well." Steven: "The false impressions of anywhere. Like in England or Scotland. Like caricatures, Irish jokes, anything. We're talking from a vulnerable point because we have never been to the East, so it's like saying we are naive about it as well. But at least we realise that." it's black humor. Sioux and severin have simply highlighted the stereotypes that the West at that time associated with Asia. The lyrics mocks those people who have racial prejudices, and at the same time tries to tell how the skinheads tormented the owners of the restaurant, evidently with the usual stereotypical insults. Now the situation is different because young people are interested in Asian culture, but in '70s in England apparently there was a kind of general ignorance. |
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