Birthday Cake

I'd like to believe this song is definitely about the message, "can't we all just get along?"...and possibly drugs may help.

Most of it is the worst recipe for cake in the world, rivaling only "Die Eier Von Satan." The rest of it is the cake as a metaphor for her love for her son. They seem to have a disharmonious relationship and she hopes a peace offering will smooth things over. Except for when she digresses to the 60' and how the war was bad but people did LSD and life went on. "C'est le vie" here I think has more of the "shit happens" tone. Which makes me feel the subtext to that is also that one must not take life so seriously, hence all the incredibly strange ingredients of the recipe (the last addition of course is pot). And let's not forget the conclusion that her love is "moldy."

My conclusion? I Love this song.

It's about the things that Cibo Matto's songs usually are, drugs and food.

Maybe it's about making peace by feeding people moldy cake and turning into a rattle snake.

It sounds to me like this song's main message is, "life sucks but you have to find the good in the bad."

She is making a birthday cake for her son, but she is putting in old moldy milk because she doesn't have anything newer, but mixed in with that there are also berries. She throws in the extra (but cheap) ingrediants that she can to try and make it better. I'm a little unsure about the msg: in small amounts it can make food taste better, but she is putting in extra. Also, some people can have bad reactions to it.

She is also talking about war, which is considered bad by pretty much all cultures, but she goes on to say "can't we just say c'est la vie," which basically means "such is life," which further concretes the message that you just have to deal with things. She knows this: she's going to show her love with this cake, even though it isn't perfect.

I was thinking of other ways this could be interpreted, too -- perhaps in a more literal way -- but this is the one I'm throwing out there.

this song is fun to sing along to when playing JSRF

DiscoEve, the song is definitely not that bad. I think it's rather catchy. Even though at times, it's the last song you'd ever want to hear.

well most j pop is hard to listen to unless you are use to it. i got use to it when i was in korea myself. k and j pop are similar.

A lot like Battlefield Earth being a really bad film that somehow manages to be quite good, this is one of those truly awful songs that happens to be really good! I know I like it. Don't ask me what it might be about though...

The pronounciation is weird.

"Shut up and eat!" sounds like "Shut up London eat!"

Crazy, stupid, annoying...and addictive song.

I like fishcakes thoughts a lot. Makes a great deal of sense. I always personally saw a parody of American cuisine in this song. How we basically eat anything and everything without realizing how cheaply mass produced it all is, or how unhealthy it is, but with some "extra sugar, extra salt, extra oil, and MSG" it tastes great! Because most people don't even read what's in their food...and even if they do, do we really care for more than a fleeting moment?