I think it's perfectly credible to think it's about rape. But considering the main premise of Fear Factory up to this point has been a struggle of man vs. machine, I think this song is about cloning or genetic engineering. What are the results of playing God?
"Duplication Innocently"- Scientists only seeing the positives of cloning, not meaning harm to anyone doing it.
"Conceived so violently"- Conceived through genetic engineering. Can't be a pretty process.
The product of engineering has no love, has no family. The product isn't even his own man, he's a replica of someone else. So "I am rape, I am hate" turns into the feeling of the clone. He has been raped of his individuality, he hates himself and whoever did this to him.
I've always been the kind of person who feels that whatever a person gets out of a song is right. The message of the song is different for everyone. I think Burton is a deep guy, and Fear Factory was all about the concept of man going so far technologically as to destroy himself. So while this can be taken as the quite literal rape example, I think his intention is about cloning.
I think it's perfectly credible to think it's about rape. But considering the main premise of Fear Factory up to this point has been a struggle of man vs. machine, I think this song is about cloning or genetic engineering. What are the results of playing God?
"Duplication Innocently"- Scientists only seeing the positives of cloning, not meaning harm to anyone doing it.
"Conceived so violently"- Conceived through genetic engineering. Can't be a pretty process.
The product of engineering has no love, has no family. The product isn't even his own man, he's a replica of someone else. So "I am rape, I am hate" turns into the feeling of the clone. He has been raped of his individuality, he hates himself and whoever did this to him.
I've always been the kind of person who feels that whatever a person gets out of a song is right. The message of the song is different for everyone. I think Burton is a deep guy, and Fear Factory was all about the concept of man going so far technologically as to destroy himself. So while this can be taken as the quite literal rape example, I think his intention is about cloning.
@Cloudconnected Yes I agree (in essence), many have not related this back to Fear Factory's general theme of man vs machine.
@Cloudconnected Yes I agree (in essence), many have not related this back to Fear Factory's general theme of man vs machine.
@Cloudconnected burton said on a podcast which I will link, that it's about a person conceived through rape. Here it is: https://youtu.be/8S6Qii-FANY
@Cloudconnected burton said on a podcast which I will link, that it's about a person conceived through rape. Here it is: https://youtu.be/8S6Qii-FANY