Here is my interpretation of this entire song set (POW- fun acronym, parts 1+2), as well as a rather lengthy rant of how this album is inspired, but not based on, George Orwell's Animal Farm:
Pigs on the Wing are enemy fighters in a persons blindspot. So think about it. If you care about someone, what do you do, you hug them. If you do this, you see in one direction and the other person sees in the other direction. You have no blind spot, and so are therefore not vulnerable to pigs on the wing. However, if you don't care about anyone, you have to cover all directions at once, which can't be done efficiently, so you always have to look out for pigs on the wing.
Not to start an argument, but there are multiple similarities between Animal Farm (my favorite book) and Animals (one of my top 4 albums, each of which I like the same for different reasons).
The dogs in Animal Farm are not stupid, mindless killers. Orwell makes a note of the smarter animals on the farm, in which he directly mentions dogs and pigs.
The sheep also draw a similarity between the two mediums. In both, they are the lower classes, underneath the thumb of the pigs.
That said, Animals is not based on Animal Farm, it is inspired by it. They do not tell the same story, but they use the same metaphors for the same types of people.
Pigs are corrupt leaders. In Animal Farm, they represented Stalin and his pawns, and were also generic totalitarians. In Animals, they are the capitalists, Margaret Thatcher (a far right winger), and Mary Whitehouse (of the Clean Up TV act).
Dogs are those who look out only for themselves. In the book, the dogs are the secret police of Stalin (Napoleon). In animals, I've always seen them as the Big Oil CEO types under the thumb of the President and Vice president.
Sheep are the masses, generally uneducated, though in Animals they have the sense to rise up, and in Animal Farm they truly are devout followers of Napoleon.
Just as a side note, Mary Whitehouse was so unpopular that TV shows that got her seal of approval were worried that their ratings would take a hit, and deliberately tried to offend her. So Roger Waters was not alone in hating her.
I agree with all you said except, in the case of the U.S. government, the President and V.P. and all government is under the thumb of the corporations. Bush and Obama are just puppets of the super elite(rich).
A comparison with your Mary Whitehouse was the PMRC in the U.S.who wanted to censor music by putting warning labels on CD's. Well, it backfired on them because the kids would target and buy the CD's with the labels on them.
I agree with all you said except, in the case of the U.S. government, the President and V.P. and all government is under the thumb of the corporations. Bush and Obama are just puppets of the super elite(rich).
A comparison with your Mary Whitehouse was the PMRC in the U.S.who wanted to censor music by putting warning labels on CD's. Well, it backfired on them because the kids would target and buy the CD's with the labels on them.
Here is my interpretation of this entire song set (POW- fun acronym, parts 1+2), as well as a rather lengthy rant of how this album is inspired, but not based on, George Orwell's Animal Farm:
Pigs on the Wing are enemy fighters in a persons blindspot. So think about it. If you care about someone, what do you do, you hug them. If you do this, you see in one direction and the other person sees in the other direction. You have no blind spot, and so are therefore not vulnerable to pigs on the wing. However, if you don't care about anyone, you have to cover all directions at once, which can't be done efficiently, so you always have to look out for pigs on the wing.
Not to start an argument, but there are multiple similarities between Animal Farm (my favorite book) and Animals (one of my top 4 albums, each of which I like the same for different reasons).
The dogs in Animal Farm are not stupid, mindless killers. Orwell makes a note of the smarter animals on the farm, in which he directly mentions dogs and pigs.
The sheep also draw a similarity between the two mediums. In both, they are the lower classes, underneath the thumb of the pigs.
That said, Animals is not based on Animal Farm, it is inspired by it. They do not tell the same story, but they use the same metaphors for the same types of people.
Pigs are corrupt leaders. In Animal Farm, they represented Stalin and his pawns, and were also generic totalitarians. In Animals, they are the capitalists, Margaret Thatcher (a far right winger), and Mary Whitehouse (of the Clean Up TV act).
Dogs are those who look out only for themselves. In the book, the dogs are the secret police of Stalin (Napoleon). In animals, I've always seen them as the Big Oil CEO types under the thumb of the President and Vice president.
Sheep are the masses, generally uneducated, though in Animals they have the sense to rise up, and in Animal Farm they truly are devout followers of Napoleon.
Just as a side note, Mary Whitehouse was so unpopular that TV shows that got her seal of approval were worried that their ratings would take a hit, and deliberately tried to offend her. So Roger Waters was not alone in hating her.
I agree with all you said except, in the case of the U.S. government, the President and V.P. and all government is under the thumb of the corporations. Bush and Obama are just puppets of the super elite(rich). A comparison with your Mary Whitehouse was the PMRC in the U.S.who wanted to censor music by putting warning labels on CD's. Well, it backfired on them because the kids would target and buy the CD's with the labels on them.
I agree with all you said except, in the case of the U.S. government, the President and V.P. and all government is under the thumb of the corporations. Bush and Obama are just puppets of the super elite(rich). A comparison with your Mary Whitehouse was the PMRC in the U.S.who wanted to censor music by putting warning labels on CD's. Well, it backfired on them because the kids would target and buy the CD's with the labels on them.