She's going out to nightclubs drinking just champagne.
Its about turning tricks and selling your ethics to advance in a superficial career
"She plays hard to get, she smiles from time to time It only takes a camera to change her mind"
Shes aware and observant of the important men that can get her where she needs to be
"And she has been checking nearly all the men She's playing her game and you can hear them say She is looking good, for beauty we will pay"
and despite the fact that shes a whore it doesnt seem to matter anymore, because:
"She's posing for consumer products now and then For every camera she gives the best she can I saw her on the cover of a magazine"
and even though she whored her way to the top, it doesnt matter because:
"Now she's a big success, I want to meet her again"
cheers to her, she checked her ethics at the door and made it to the top,
Ralf Hutter has written this song when he fell in love with a model. But she didn't want him.
First of all: these lyrics are completely wrong. This is the right version: She's a model and she's looking good I'd like to take her home that's understood She plays hard to get, she smiles from time to time It only takes a camera to change her mind
She's going out tonight but drinking just champagne And she has been checking nearly all the men She's playing her game and you can hear them say She is looking good, for beauty we will pay
She's posing for consumer products now and then For every camera she gives the best she can I saw her on the cover of a magazine Now she's a big success, I want to meet her again
I think it's about how people are obsessed with beauty ("She's looking good for beaty we will pay") and success ("Now she's a big success I want to meet her again").
Its about turning tricks and selling your ethics to advance in a superficial career
Its about turning tricks and selling your ethics to advance in a superficial career
"She plays hard to get, she smiles from time to time It only takes a camera to change her mind"
"She plays hard to get, she smiles from time to time It only takes a camera to change her mind"
Shes aware and observant of the important men that can get her where she needs to be
Shes aware and observant of the important men that can get her where she needs to be
"And she has been checking nearly all the men She's playing her game and you can hear them say She is looking good, for beauty we will pay"
"And she has been checking nearly all the men She's playing her game and you can hear them say She is looking good, for beauty we will pay"
and despite the fact that shes a whore it doesnt seem to matter anymore, because:
and despite the fact that shes a whore it doesnt seem to matter anymore, because:
"She's posing...
"She's posing for consumer products now and then For every camera she gives the best she can I saw her on the cover of a magazine"
and even though she whored her way to the top, it doesnt matter because:
"Now she's a big success, I want to meet her again"
cheers to her, she checked her ethics at the door and made it to the top,
description of shallow, superficial 80's yuppie culture
YEA PLEASE FIX THE LYRICS. I like this song.
One story states that the song was inspired by a party in Germany in 1979. Ralf and a female model were there. He only wanted to talk to her, but she snubbed him, thinking he was solely out to get her in bed. Not sure if this is true or not.
@quamp - pity that the lyrics were actually written by Emil Schult, who (at the time) was in love with a model, and it was written and released in 1978! Apart from that, your anecdote was a VERY interesting!
@quamp - pity that the lyrics were actually written by Emil Schult, who (at the time) was in love with a model, and it was written and released in 1978! Apart from that, your anecdote was a VERY interesting!
I think it's about the about the vanity and superficiality of society and our obsession with physical aesthetics and society's fascination with the beautiful in the world. The song is half satirising/half giving very valid social commentary on how people are so obsessed with physical appearance and good looks and look at those who posess it as being like Gods/Godesses. The model is a mere metaphor for the attractive male or female you see walking around the bar and 'checking all the men...playing her game'- ie. she/he always checks to see are they being looked at, afterall they need to know they are being admired yet they pretend to be oblivious to it all. It's all part of 'the 'game'. 'She plays hard to get, she smiles from time to time'- the attractive person flirts with many but knows they are in high demand so has the ability to be picky, it's almost cliche to watch the scenario in action... you can see the pretty girl/guy being approached and having small talk then rejecting the many admirers. 'For beauty we will pay'- this works on a few levels, the attractive person gets so much attention that others will be falling over to pay for them or it could be non fiancial and 'pay' attention to them-we as a society always pay attention to beauty. Then there's the element of marketing and how companies will use attractive people to sell their products and how beautiful people will sacrifice any morals they have for a camera 'only takes a camera to change her mind.' It then goes on to say about her becoming 'a big success, I want to to meet her again' after he 'saw her on the cover of a magazine' taps into the culture of how the beautiful rise to the top and become celebrities and we see them and consequently find their beauty so appealing that we want to see more of them...
This song is about a girl who knows she is attractive, but still plays the game where she plays hard to get. She knows that everyone wants her but she knows that none of these man can have her. She smiles for the camera and not for the photographer because her beauty will never fade because she's a model in every way.
first of all i must say this song means a whole lot to me. it really got me though some hard times. to me its mostly about french transexuals in mid 20's and how they invented the taco.