The speaker is lashing out against the commercialization of the music industry and likining it to a religion. Alot of what "he" says sounds like motivational Bullshit: like "think outside the box" and "paradiggum" (mispronounced paradigm), "the one true edge" and calling you DUDE. Sounds like an over zelous promoter or manager. He also makes the religion sound like a hipster pop oriented entity, "limited edition" and "accepting callers for... key chains"
@MorningStar Very insightful. This song is so indicative of commercialism in the music industry. Instead of people who just want to play music and have their songs heard getting together to form and band and then getting famous, the pop music industry has "auditioned" people in order to market and promote the band from a formula. They started doing this as early as the mid-1960's when NBC put an ad in the paper for the Monkees. To their credit, they actually learned to play their instruments and sang on their albums. I love Cake and I love...
@MorningStar Very insightful. This song is so indicative of commercialism in the music industry. Instead of people who just want to play music and have their songs heard getting together to form and band and then getting famous, the pop music industry has "auditioned" people in order to market and promote the band from a formula. They started doing this as early as the mid-1960's when NBC put an ad in the paper for the Monkees. To their credit, they actually learned to play their instruments and sang on their albums. I love Cake and I love this song. My grand kids find it hard to believe.
The speaker is lashing out against the commercialization of the music industry and likining it to a religion. Alot of what "he" says sounds like motivational Bullshit: like "think outside the box" and "paradiggum" (mispronounced paradigm), "the one true edge" and calling you DUDE. Sounds like an over zelous promoter or manager. He also makes the religion sound like a hipster pop oriented entity, "limited edition" and "accepting callers for... key chains"
God Bless CAKE :D
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@MorningStar Very insightful. This song is so indicative of commercialism in the music industry. Instead of people who just want to play music and have their songs heard getting together to form and band and then getting famous, the pop music industry has "auditioned" people in order to market and promote the band from a formula. They started doing this as early as the mid-1960's when NBC put an ad in the paper for the Monkees. To their credit, they actually learned to play their instruments and sang on their albums. I love Cake and I love...
@MorningStar Very insightful. This song is so indicative of commercialism in the music industry. Instead of people who just want to play music and have their songs heard getting together to form and band and then getting famous, the pop music industry has "auditioned" people in order to market and promote the band from a formula. They started doing this as early as the mid-1960's when NBC put an ad in the paper for the Monkees. To their credit, they actually learned to play their instruments and sang on their albums. I love Cake and I love this song. My grand kids find it hard to believe.