This part here is saying how we've become too caught up in the entertainment industry. We've stopped thinking for ourselves and now we're trying to be like what we see... We're trying to become entertainment (Trying to look like an actress or a singer, etc.)
"All we are are pretty faces, picture perfect, bottled rage.
Packaged synthesized versions of you!"
--> This is sort of a follow up to what I said. Entertainment cares about 2 things, its image and making money. Entertainment has to look good, even if it means replacing every part of your body with artificial substances and limbs (so to speak). We all want to look like a rock star, or a model.. so we change everything about ourselves to become this.
"They all scream California and its toppling empire,
but can't you see the end is coming soon?"
--> We all scream for California, in the sense that we all want to be what California is. We all want to be like the people we see on TV, we all want to become them. and when he says "And its toppling empire" I believe that pretty much speaks for itself. Cali has become an empire of its own and its toppling over us... nowhere in the world can you get away from it. The Hollywoodian industry is everywhere!
The entire second verse is just completely destroying the Hollywood scene and what its appearance. Just saying, again, that it's trying to preserve an image of falseness and insecurity hidden behind pride.
To me, it's more than just an angry hate song towards artists and actors. It's a song about how we have to snap out of this charade! We have to disconnect ourselves from these projections. It's insane (when you think about it, injecting yourslef with botox, which is a poison, to have tighter looking skin is pretty fucked up!), it's immoral and it's killing us. It's killing who we are as human beings. It's unhealthy, degrading and embarassing.
That's my opinion, but I really think he's voicing a call to the californian empire that has become too big... too important in our lives... it has become an unhealthy role model and even more, it's portraying a false sense of reality. It's ubstructing our view on the rest of the world, on more important things happening.
lol sorry if this is long, but it's harder to explain than it looks :)">
Entertainment Meanings & Lyrics Discussion by Mac98 | SongMeanings
This part here is saying how we've become too caught up in the entertainment industry. We've stopped thinking for ourselves and now we're trying to be like what we see... We're trying to become entertainment (Trying to look like an actress or a singer, etc.)
"All we are are pretty faces, picture perfect, bottled rage.
Packaged synthesized versions of you!"
--> This is sort of a follow up to what I said. Entertainment cares about 2 things, its image and making money. Entertainment has to look good, even if it means replacing every part of your body with artificial substances and limbs (so to speak). We all want to look like a rock star, or a model.. so we change everything about ourselves to become this.
"They all scream California and its toppling empire,
but can't you see the end is coming soon?"
--> We all scream for California, in the sense that we all want to be what California is. We all want to be like the people we see on TV, we all want to become them. and when he says "And its toppling empire" I believe that pretty much speaks for itself. Cali has become an empire of its own and its toppling over us... nowhere in the world can you get away from it. The Hollywoodian industry is everywhere!
The entire second verse is just completely destroying the Hollywood scene and what its appearance. Just saying, again, that it's trying to preserve an image of falseness and insecurity hidden behind pride.
To me, it's more than just an angry hate song towards artists and actors. It's a song about how we have to snap out of this charade! We have to disconnect ourselves from these projections. It's insane (when you think about it, injecting yourslef with botox, which is a poison, to have tighter looking skin is pretty fucked up!), it's immoral and it's killing us. It's killing who we are as human beings. It's unhealthy, degrading and embarassing.
That's my opinion, but I really think he's voicing a call to the californian empire that has become too big... too important in our lives... it has become an unhealthy role model and even more, it's portraying a false sense of reality. It's ubstructing our view on the rest of the world, on more important things happening.
lol sorry if this is long, but it's harder to explain than it looks :)" />
This song is smarter than just Rise Against are angry towards artists writing poor songs or actors talking about the environment and not actually doing anything...
This song is talking about the hollywood entertainment industry that has us wrapped around its little finger.
"All we are is entertainment caught up in our own derangements
Tell us what to say and what to do."
--> This part here is saying how we've become too caught up in the entertainment industry. We've stopped thinking for ourselves and now we're trying to be like what we see... We're trying to become entertainment (Trying to look like an actress or a singer, etc.)
"All we are are pretty faces, picture perfect, bottled rage.
Packaged synthesized versions of you!"
--> This is sort of a follow up to what I said. Entertainment cares about 2 things, its image and making money. Entertainment has to look good, even if it means replacing every part of your body with artificial substances and limbs (so to speak). We all want to look like a rock star, or a model.. so we change everything about ourselves to become this.
"They all scream California and its toppling empire,
but can't you see the end is coming soon?"
--> We all scream for California, in the sense that we all want to be what California is. We all want to be like the people we see on TV, we all want to become them. and when he says "And its toppling empire" I believe that pretty much speaks for itself. Cali has become an empire of its own and its toppling over us... nowhere in the world can you get away from it. The Hollywoodian industry is everywhere!
The entire second verse is just completely destroying the Hollywood scene and what its appearance. Just saying, again, that it's trying to preserve an image of falseness and insecurity hidden behind pride.
To me, it's more than just an angry hate song towards artists and actors. It's a song about how we have to snap out of this charade! We have to disconnect ourselves from these projections. It's insane (when you think about it, injecting yourslef with botox, which is a poison, to have tighter looking skin is pretty fucked up!), it's immoral and it's killing us. It's killing who we are as human beings. It's unhealthy, degrading and embarassing.
That's my opinion, but I really think he's voicing a call to the californian empire that has become too big... too important in our lives... it has become an unhealthy role model and even more, it's portraying a false sense of reality. It's ubstructing our view on the rest of the world, on more important things happening.
lol sorry if this is long, but it's harder to explain than it looks :)
this as well is true the media is over run with entertainers and the bad things i was reading a book the other day "The Freedom Writers" its a colection of diarys that a group of students wrote with the help of there teacher down in long beach, ca and one incident in the book is 2 students go to some arcade and rape and kill a little girl and when the media is all over the school about the muder and what not half of the school goes out infront of the cameras and holds hands and prays for...
this as well is true the media is over run with entertainers and the bad things i was reading a book the other day "The Freedom Writers" its a colection of diarys that a group of students wrote with the help of there teacher down in long beach, ca and one incident in the book is 2 students go to some arcade and rape and kill a little girl and when the media is all over the school about the muder and what not half of the school goes out infront of the cameras and holds hands and prays for the family of the little girl and shows that even in that school there is some good and the media doesnt even air that and also another srudent talkes about how is father who had so much knowledge and influence and was just an over all great person dies and no one hears his story but when some famouse person breaks there toe the entire world knows about it
the entertainment industry has way to much power right now
@Mac98 Rise Against isn't about making hate songs. They make music with a common message about rising above the oppression. But I do see your points about the mean of the song.
@Mac98 Rise Against isn't about making hate songs. They make music with a common message about rising above the oppression. But I do see your points about the mean of the song.
This song is smarter than just Rise Against are angry towards artists writing poor songs or actors talking about the environment and not actually doing anything...
This song is talking about the hollywood entertainment industry that has us wrapped around its little finger.
"All we are is entertainment caught up in our own derangements Tell us what to say and what to do."
--> This part here is saying how we've become too caught up in the entertainment industry. We've stopped thinking for ourselves and now we're trying to be like what we see... We're trying to become entertainment (Trying to look like an actress or a singer, etc.)
"All we are are pretty faces, picture perfect, bottled rage. Packaged synthesized versions of you!"
--> This is sort of a follow up to what I said. Entertainment cares about 2 things, its image and making money. Entertainment has to look good, even if it means replacing every part of your body with artificial substances and limbs (so to speak). We all want to look like a rock star, or a model.. so we change everything about ourselves to become this.
"They all scream California and its toppling empire, but can't you see the end is coming soon?"
--> We all scream for California, in the sense that we all want to be what California is. We all want to be like the people we see on TV, we all want to become them. and when he says "And its toppling empire" I believe that pretty much speaks for itself. Cali has become an empire of its own and its toppling over us... nowhere in the world can you get away from it. The Hollywoodian industry is everywhere!
The entire second verse is just completely destroying the Hollywood scene and what its appearance. Just saying, again, that it's trying to preserve an image of falseness and insecurity hidden behind pride.
To me, it's more than just an angry hate song towards artists and actors. It's a song about how we have to snap out of this charade! We have to disconnect ourselves from these projections. It's insane (when you think about it, injecting yourslef with botox, which is a poison, to have tighter looking skin is pretty fucked up!), it's immoral and it's killing us. It's killing who we are as human beings. It's unhealthy, degrading and embarassing.
That's my opinion, but I really think he's voicing a call to the californian empire that has become too big... too important in our lives... it has become an unhealthy role model and even more, it's portraying a false sense of reality. It's ubstructing our view on the rest of the world, on more important things happening.
lol sorry if this is long, but it's harder to explain than it looks :)
this as well is true the media is over run with entertainers and the bad things i was reading a book the other day "The Freedom Writers" its a colection of diarys that a group of students wrote with the help of there teacher down in long beach, ca and one incident in the book is 2 students go to some arcade and rape and kill a little girl and when the media is all over the school about the muder and what not half of the school goes out infront of the cameras and holds hands and prays for...
this as well is true the media is over run with entertainers and the bad things i was reading a book the other day "The Freedom Writers" its a colection of diarys that a group of students wrote with the help of there teacher down in long beach, ca and one incident in the book is 2 students go to some arcade and rape and kill a little girl and when the media is all over the school about the muder and what not half of the school goes out infront of the cameras and holds hands and prays for the family of the little girl and shows that even in that school there is some good and the media doesnt even air that and also another srudent talkes about how is father who had so much knowledge and influence and was just an over all great person dies and no one hears his story but when some famouse person breaks there toe the entire world knows about it
the entertainment industry has way to much power right now
@Mac98 Rise Against isn't about making hate songs. They make music with a common message about rising above the oppression. But I do see your points about the mean of the song.
@Mac98 Rise Against isn't about making hate songs. They make music with a common message about rising above the oppression. But I do see your points about the mean of the song.