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Paradise Place Lyrics
Look to the hills-now look at my face
Do you notice my eyes-are they in the right place?
There's a Mantovani backdrop-to pucker-up a tummy tuck. A voice soft as lint-mashed up with shades of pink
You can hide your genetics under drastic cosmetics. But this chameleon magic is renowned to be tragic
Look to the hills-now look at my face
Do you notice my eyes-are they in the right place?
Do you notice my eyes-are they in the right place?
There's a Mantovani backdrop-to pucker-up a tummy tuck. A voice soft as lint-mashed up with shades of pink
You can hide your genetics under drastic cosmetics. But this chameleon magic is renowned to be tragic
Look to the hills-now look at my face
Do you notice my eyes-are they in the right place?
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This song was written in response to an article suggesting that Siouxsie had breast implants.
"Look to the hills- now look at my face" An obvious reference about looking at a woman's breasts before her eyes. And about plastic surgery in general.
Actually, this song was written long before the article about the breast implants. It was because of this song that she could sue the author, because their article made her look like a hypocrite.
Yeah, I had always assumed that the song was anti-cosmetic surgery...
I know that Dr.Polidori in his diary told about Lord Byron who, looking at Mary Shelley, imagined a woman with eyes instead of nipples, a vision that horrified the poet. Maybe the line "Do you notice my eyes are they in the right place?" could allude to this anecdote.
SIOUXSIE: "There's one song that I've recently done called 'Paradise Place' which is about plastic surgeons in the Beverley Hills, that operate a a cut price (slice), very cheap, and they end up messing up someone's features at the cost of how cheap it is." Source: Zigzag 05/80.
Is it just me or are Siouxsie and The Banshees more relevent today than ever?
Mantovani backdrop A voice soft as lint mashed up with shades of pink
Can someone explain this?
@vinÃciusol Mantovani was a conductor of light orchestral music, so I guess thsi is the kind of music that might be used as a backdrop to plastic surgery. I guess the soft voice is the plastic surgeon talking to the patient while operATING. I'm not sure why lint or pink but I'm guessing it suggests soft and relaxing.
@vinÃciusol Mantovani was a conductor of light orchestral music, so I guess thsi is the kind of music that might be used as a backdrop to plastic surgery. I guess the soft voice is the plastic surgeon talking to the patient while operATING. I'm not sure why lint or pink but I'm guessing it suggests soft and relaxing.