I would have never guessed what this song was about if I hadn't just thought of the title. It's about the sad state of commercialized pop music. "The wooden woman and her hollowing out" is the hollow, materialistic, sexualized image of women. "The wood man and his splintering self" is probably the self-aggrandizing, violent rapper full of braggadocio, if you take "splintering self" to mean that he gives others splinters, not that he is splintering himself. Both fake and contrived to pander to young people and pop culture's warped ideals for what they should look up to or aspire to be.
"Elvis, what happened?" is pretty obvious. Then the cotton candy spun anyway you like is the way labels will pander to whatever is trendy at the time. Think of how quickly 98 degrees went all latin after Ricky Martin performed at the Grammy's and got popular. Don't ask me why I remember that. The use of the spatula image is interesting because of what it's used for, to scoop up mundane things out of a pile and flip them.
"The label stapled a speaker to the back of a sheep's throat" I think is saying it doesn't matter which sheep (crappy pop artist) gets to hold the microphone because they're all the same.
I'm really not sure about the second verse, but I love the fuck part. You can't curse on radio or mtv. I'm just starting to listen to cLOUDDEAD closely for the first time, and other than Dead Dogs Two I had thought a lot of their stuff might have been somewhat meaningless and they were having a laugh about it. So it's good to know that probably isn't the case, since all of Why's stuff at least is definitely deep.
I would have never guessed what this song was about if I hadn't just thought of the title. It's about the sad state of commercialized pop music. "The wooden woman and her hollowing out" is the hollow, materialistic, sexualized image of women. "The wood man and his splintering self" is probably the self-aggrandizing, violent rapper full of braggadocio, if you take "splintering self" to mean that he gives others splinters, not that he is splintering himself. Both fake and contrived to pander to young people and pop culture's warped ideals for what they should look up to or aspire to be.
"Elvis, what happened?" is pretty obvious. Then the cotton candy spun anyway you like is the way labels will pander to whatever is trendy at the time. Think of how quickly 98 degrees went all latin after Ricky Martin performed at the Grammy's and got popular. Don't ask me why I remember that. The use of the spatula image is interesting because of what it's used for, to scoop up mundane things out of a pile and flip them.
"The label stapled a speaker to the back of a sheep's throat" I think is saying it doesn't matter which sheep (crappy pop artist) gets to hold the microphone because they're all the same.
I'm really not sure about the second verse, but I love the fuck part. You can't curse on radio or mtv. I'm just starting to listen to cLOUDDEAD closely for the first time, and other than Dead Dogs Two I had thought a lot of their stuff might have been somewhat meaningless and they were having a laugh about it. So it's good to know that probably isn't the case, since all of Why's stuff at least is definitely deep.