I think this song is about a sick canadian pedophile.
I won't discuss all the stanzas and issues in the song, but it seems to be about a poor girl who's grown up in an abusive household thanks to her father.
I believe the Johnny Carson comment at the end of the song is about The Aristocrats joke, that Carson liked.
Do you really think Zappa saw it that way? I think it's handled with a lot of humour. In Brown Shoes Don't Make It, the incestuous tones are in there both for comedy and to show that being in a position of moral authority doesn't make you immune to corrupt or unacceptable thoughts.
Do you really think Zappa saw it that way? I think it's handled with a lot of humour. In Brown Shoes Don't Make It, the incestuous tones are in there both for comedy and to show that being in a position of moral authority doesn't make you immune to corrupt or unacceptable thoughts.
Plus, for the record, "paedophilia" refers to an attraction to children. An attraction to adolescents is called "ephebophilia" - and given that the song makes reference to her as a "teenage daughter" and talks about her breasts a lot, I'm pretty sure she's the latter....
Plus, for the record, "paedophilia" refers to an attraction to children. An attraction to adolescents is called "ephebophilia" - and given that the song makes reference to her as a "teenage daughter" and talks about her breasts a lot, I'm pretty sure she's the latter.
@mattalac By the way this is almost certainly inspired by one of the "Winnipeg Rangers" groupies, who'd left home because of just such an incident with her own father.
For those of you who might not know, Howard, who co-wrote the music (it started life as a setting of a Tolkien poem!) improvised the "father's monolog" part every time they played it - compare the Carnegie Hall and Montreux versions!
@mattalac By the way this is almost certainly inspired by one of the "Winnipeg Rangers" groupies, who'd left home because of just such an incident with her own father.
For those of you who might not know, Howard, who co-wrote the music (it started life as a setting of a Tolkien poem!) improvised the "father's monolog" part every time they played it - compare the Carnegie Hall and Montreux versions!
I think this song is about a sick canadian pedophile. I won't discuss all the stanzas and issues in the song, but it seems to be about a poor girl who's grown up in an abusive household thanks to her father.
I believe the Johnny Carson comment at the end of the song is about The Aristocrats joke, that Carson liked.
Do you really think Zappa saw it that way? I think it's handled with a lot of humour. In Brown Shoes Don't Make It, the incestuous tones are in there both for comedy and to show that being in a position of moral authority doesn't make you immune to corrupt or unacceptable thoughts.
Do you really think Zappa saw it that way? I think it's handled with a lot of humour. In Brown Shoes Don't Make It, the incestuous tones are in there both for comedy and to show that being in a position of moral authority doesn't make you immune to corrupt or unacceptable thoughts.
Plus, for the record, "paedophilia" refers to an attraction to children. An attraction to adolescents is called "ephebophilia" - and given that the song makes reference to her as a "teenage daughter" and talks about her breasts a lot, I'm pretty sure she's the latter....
Plus, for the record, "paedophilia" refers to an attraction to children. An attraction to adolescents is called "ephebophilia" - and given that the song makes reference to her as a "teenage daughter" and talks about her breasts a lot, I'm pretty sure she's the latter.
@mattalac By the way this is almost certainly inspired by one of the "Winnipeg Rangers" groupies, who'd left home because of just such an incident with her own father. For those of you who might not know, Howard, who co-wrote the music (it started life as a setting of a Tolkien poem!) improvised the "father's monolog" part every time they played it - compare the Carnegie Hall and Montreux versions!
@mattalac By the way this is almost certainly inspired by one of the "Winnipeg Rangers" groupies, who'd left home because of just such an incident with her own father. For those of you who might not know, Howard, who co-wrote the music (it started life as a setting of a Tolkien poem!) improvised the "father's monolog" part every time they played it - compare the Carnegie Hall and Montreux versions!