It's a great song.
From a Florida review: " collision of adolescent petulance and carefree exuberance...A defiant Stonewall-esque snapshot of the dancefloor as a suddenly politicized battleground, the images of “boys kissing boys at the moment when the cops came” and “[holding] ground in a morality police state” stand as perhaps the only moment on Pins and Panzers evoking any kind of topical political fury. Squint a little, though, and the song becomes as much an homage to the original new wave era’s impeding sense of apocalyptic doom in an atmosphere steeped in sexual and nuclear paranoia. " ...
It's a great song.
From a Florida review: " collision of adolescent petulance and carefree exuberance...A defiant Stonewall-esque snapshot of the dancefloor as a suddenly politicized battleground, the images of “boys kissing boys at the moment when the cops came” and “[holding] ground in a morality police state” stand as perhaps the only moment on Pins and Panzers evoking any kind of topical political fury. Squint a little, though, and the song becomes as much an homage to the original new wave era’s impeding sense of apocalyptic doom in an atmosphere steeped in sexual and nuclear paranoia. " --That makes sense, on Wiki search: Stonewall riots. Stonewall is a bar in Greenwich Village in NYCity.
"The girls looked beautiful in blue." Are drag queens. So it's not quite all about
adolescent rebellion. But it is a clash with the "morality police" in the lyrics.
i love the video that they made to go with this song. I always feel like dancing when i watch it. =)
It's a great song. From a Florida review: " collision of adolescent petulance and carefree exuberance...A defiant Stonewall-esque snapshot of the dancefloor as a suddenly politicized battleground, the images of “boys kissing boys at the moment when the cops came” and “[holding] ground in a morality police state” stand as perhaps the only moment on Pins and Panzers evoking any kind of topical political fury. Squint a little, though, and the song becomes as much an homage to the original new wave era’s impeding sense of apocalyptic doom in an atmosphere steeped in sexual and nuclear paranoia. " ...
It's a great song. From a Florida review: " collision of adolescent petulance and carefree exuberance...A defiant Stonewall-esque snapshot of the dancefloor as a suddenly politicized battleground, the images of “boys kissing boys at the moment when the cops came” and “[holding] ground in a morality police state” stand as perhaps the only moment on Pins and Panzers evoking any kind of topical political fury. Squint a little, though, and the song becomes as much an homage to the original new wave era’s impeding sense of apocalyptic doom in an atmosphere steeped in sexual and nuclear paranoia. " --That makes sense, on Wiki search: Stonewall riots. Stonewall is a bar in Greenwich Village in NYCity. "The girls looked beautiful in blue." Are drag queens. So it's not quite all about adolescent rebellion. But it is a clash with the "morality police" in the lyrics.