I didn't get the idea behind this song when I was first listening to it, being about 15 then.
The main reason why I stopped listening to DK back then was their all-around attack on human insecurities, like elsewhere in "your emotion" or "halloween". i never cared so much for the punk-scene-inner-conflict songs like "do the slag", their best work was done when Jello mercilessly described absurd aspects of everyday (Western) society.
Like here. Insecure people, taught by their environment to wear a fake smile all the time, are not neccessarily bad people, they sometimes are just heavily misguided. I kinda felt personally attacked by this song, as i never felt comfortable around strangers. When people like my teenageself hear laughter, somewhere, they think it's directed at them and they get self-conscious. You can only pity people who stay in that stage of growth.
I didn't get the idea behind this song when I was first listening to it, being about 15 then. The main reason why I stopped listening to DK back then was their all-around attack on human insecurities, like elsewhere in "your emotion" or "halloween". i never cared so much for the punk-scene-inner-conflict songs like "do the slag", their best work was done when Jello mercilessly described absurd aspects of everyday (Western) society. Like here. Insecure people, taught by their environment to wear a fake smile all the time, are not neccessarily bad people, they sometimes are just heavily misguided. I kinda felt personally attacked by this song, as i never felt comfortable around strangers. When people like my teenageself hear laughter, somewhere, they think it's directed at them and they get self-conscious. You can only pity people who stay in that stage of growth.