Nice thoughts Donutbandit. I've heard a number of interpretations for this song and that one makes sense. Certainly Steely Dan was not cut from the usual rock'n'roll cloth. They were alternative before the term was used in music. Their chord progressions and the intricacy of their music is unmatched in the rock world.
One theory I've heard for this song is that he is taking a fictional man and referring to the man's daughter. The chorus fits this very well and the lines about the college work with this theory. Just throwing it out there. The one thing you can be certain of with SD is that there are always going to be some deeper meanings when the lyrics seem shallow. They never did anything shallow.
i like the father/ daughter angle you came up with, @writer17. "The weekend at the college didn't turn out as planned", parents are known to take their teens to check out, or be interviewed for admission, and maybe she wasn't prepared, or her grade average didn't measure up to her own self-claimed "genius". so maybe then she decided she would be an actress and dad paid for lessons, but when she went to try out Hollywood, not only did she not cut it, she found some dirty old man/"producer" who became her father figure,replacing dear old dad......
i like the father/ daughter angle you came up with, @writer17. "The weekend at the college didn't turn out as planned", parents are known to take their teens to check out, or be interviewed for admission, and maybe she wasn't prepared, or her grade average didn't measure up to her own self-claimed "genius". so maybe then she decided she would be an actress and dad paid for lessons, but when she went to try out Hollywood, not only did she not cut it, she found some dirty old man/"producer" who became her father figure,replacing dear old dad...
Nice thoughts Donutbandit. I've heard a number of interpretations for this song and that one makes sense. Certainly Steely Dan was not cut from the usual rock'n'roll cloth. They were alternative before the term was used in music. Their chord progressions and the intricacy of their music is unmatched in the rock world. One theory I've heard for this song is that he is taking a fictional man and referring to the man's daughter. The chorus fits this very well and the lines about the college work with this theory. Just throwing it out there. The one thing you can be certain of with SD is that there are always going to be some deeper meanings when the lyrics seem shallow. They never did anything shallow.
i like the father/ daughter angle you came up with, @writer17. "The weekend at the college didn't turn out as planned", parents are known to take their teens to check out, or be interviewed for admission, and maybe she wasn't prepared, or her grade average didn't measure up to her own self-claimed "genius". so maybe then she decided she would be an actress and dad paid for lessons, but when she went to try out Hollywood, not only did she not cut it, she found some dirty old man/"producer" who became her father figure,replacing dear old dad......
i like the father/ daughter angle you came up with, @writer17. "The weekend at the college didn't turn out as planned", parents are known to take their teens to check out, or be interviewed for admission, and maybe she wasn't prepared, or her grade average didn't measure up to her own self-claimed "genius". so maybe then she decided she would be an actress and dad paid for lessons, but when she went to try out Hollywood, not only did she not cut it, she found some dirty old man/"producer" who became her father figure,replacing dear old dad...
@Writer17 This comment is for Ray, the WEEKEND is a sarcastic trope....I just figured this out.....after 30 years:
@Writer17 This comment is for Ray, the WEEKEND is a sarcastic trope....I just figured this out.....after 30 years:
"The weekend at the college didn't turn out like you planned" it means the person spent a VERY SHORT TIME AT THE COLLEGE lol
"The weekend at the college didn't turn out like you planned" it means the person spent a VERY SHORT TIME AT THE COLLEGE lol