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Submitted by
eamon On Feb 11, 2007
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You guys could show a little more enthusiasm, considering I took time out of my busy schedule to type the lyrics out.
::cough::
Through the use of multiple voices and contrasting rhythm schemes, Merritt is making a postmodern statement about the decentering of subjectivity. Simply by overlapping the various words, he is deconstructing the western ontology that holds these words to represent different entities. Either that or it's about punk love; punk rock love.
I was kind of hoping the lyrics said "fuck love" and "fuck fuck love" over and over.
Me too. However you could say the whole notion and element of repetition here would make anyone start to think it sounds like fuck love. So maybe it was intentional?
Me too. However you could say the whole notion and element of repetition here would make anyone start to think it sounds like fuck love. So maybe it was intentional?
it's a parody of punk music - maybe Stephin Merritt has a distaste for it?
this is one of my least favorite magnetic fields songs
It's actually a pretty deep track, and the enthusiasm and layers of vocals reminds me of something The Homosexuals would have done. Cool track, actually.
"I like to think. This song expresses my view of love, at least gay love, as a thing scrappy and amateurish and cobbled together and undignified, and not at all like a glamorous Douglas Sirk movie. It only lasts a minute, getting more and more desperate as it speeds up and the pitch rises, and then it stops abruptly in the middle of a breath, just as it began."
from "Stephin Merritt: My Life in 15 Songs" in Rolling Stone mag http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/stephin-merritt-my-life-in-15-songs-20151030/railroad-boy-20151023