Haha, I like the idea of Todd thinking about what a really white kid would rap about. I got that feeling as well when I first heard the song.
This song's about mankind's obsession with learning to fly, which is taken as far as flying without the use of machinery. I particularly enjoyed the juxtaposition of the making of the homemade flying machine with the rocket ship imagery and count down in the background. Great sense of irony. During the space race, the rocket ship was the form of transportation to end all - now America, and the rest of the world, could stick its nose in the one place it hadn't been yet. Now that achievement seems to be reduced to something as mediocre as a piece of wood balancing on a lever in a backyard. The narrator even goes so far as to mock the Space Race as nothing more than a "circus", which I thought was quite funny.
I wonder what kinds of scores the USA and USSR would have gotten for the things they did back then.
Haha, I like the idea of Todd thinking about what a really white kid would rap about. I got that feeling as well when I first heard the song.
This song's about mankind's obsession with learning to fly, which is taken as far as flying without the use of machinery. I particularly enjoyed the juxtaposition of the making of the homemade flying machine with the rocket ship imagery and count down in the background. Great sense of irony. During the space race, the rocket ship was the form of transportation to end all - now America, and the rest of the world, could stick its nose in the one place it hadn't been yet. Now that achievement seems to be reduced to something as mediocre as a piece of wood balancing on a lever in a backyard. The narrator even goes so far as to mock the Space Race as nothing more than a "circus", which I thought was quite funny.
I wonder what kinds of scores the USA and USSR would have gotten for the things they did back then.