The pinballwizard/messiah persona of Tommy is really important to the story. I didn't know that he wrote the song as a way to get better reviews so I only have this one interpretation of the song. Tommy is not actually blind, he just shut out the world. anyway...Tommy is called a messiah partly because he is so talented at playing pinball. Girls fling themselves on stage to touch him when he has actually done nothing truly profound to deserve this treatment. I think Pete was using this as a comparison to people idolizing him simply because he can play guitar. Tommy could play pinball, but he was not wise. This idea kinda relates to Behind Blue Eyes cause Pete was talking about being stereotyped as this great person and being forced to write "lies" to please people. I knoe the BBE thing isn't actually that relevant, but ....itmakessenseinmyhead
@PlutonianDoll BBE is part of the Lifehouse project, and was meant to be sung by a specific character within the project, much like certain songs in "Tommy" are sung by characters (I.e "The Acid Queen"). It's my understanding that BBE is meant to be sung from the perspective of a 'villain' of some sort. Of course, that doesn't mean that it's not autobiographical on Pete's part.
@PlutonianDoll BBE is part of the Lifehouse project, and was meant to be sung by a specific character within the project, much like certain songs in "Tommy" are sung by characters (I.e "The Acid Queen"). It's my understanding that BBE is meant to be sung from the perspective of a 'villain' of some sort. Of course, that doesn't mean that it's not autobiographical on Pete's part.
The pinballwizard/messiah persona of Tommy is really important to the story. I didn't know that he wrote the song as a way to get better reviews so I only have this one interpretation of the song. Tommy is not actually blind, he just shut out the world. anyway...Tommy is called a messiah partly because he is so talented at playing pinball. Girls fling themselves on stage to touch him when he has actually done nothing truly profound to deserve this treatment. I think Pete was using this as a comparison to people idolizing him simply because he can play guitar. Tommy could play pinball, but he was not wise. This idea kinda relates to Behind Blue Eyes cause Pete was talking about being stereotyped as this great person and being forced to write "lies" to please people. I knoe the BBE thing isn't actually that relevant, but ....itmakessenseinmyhead
@PlutonianDoll BBE is part of the Lifehouse project, and was meant to be sung by a specific character within the project, much like certain songs in "Tommy" are sung by characters (I.e "The Acid Queen"). It's my understanding that BBE is meant to be sung from the perspective of a 'villain' of some sort. Of course, that doesn't mean that it's not autobiographical on Pete's part.
@PlutonianDoll BBE is part of the Lifehouse project, and was meant to be sung by a specific character within the project, much like certain songs in "Tommy" are sung by characters (I.e "The Acid Queen"). It's my understanding that BBE is meant to be sung from the perspective of a 'villain' of some sort. Of course, that doesn't mean that it's not autobiographical on Pete's part.