Around the time this song was written, Jerry was doing a lot of performance art with S&M-type props, possibly because he worked at a porno theater at the time. This song feels like a fragment from something like that - we have to remember that the Hardcore Devo albums are scrapbooks of songs and song ideas without as much context as a regular album.
Around the time this song was written, Jerry was doing a lot of performance art with S&M-type props, possibly because he worked at a porno theater at the time. This song feels like a fragment from something like that - we have to remember that the Hardcore Devo albums are scrapbooks of songs and song ideas without as much context as a regular album.