By far one of my fave ani songs. Actually basing my dissertation research on the political/social themes she so deftly deconstructs for us.
And as for this stanza,
"why don't you just go ahead and turn off the sun
'cause we'll never live long enough to
undo everything they've done to you"
well, that's just brilliant. She obviously is a Judith Butler fan and is referring to the fact that we are inscribed within a violent identity discourse before we are even born, and the extent to which our lives are just reproduction after reproduction of those power formations is completely inescapable.
@sadgreeneyes Right, but underlying it is this poignant sadness. This lost hope that we could have and should have been better... but that it's become so unrecognizable and the damage done so significant that it's too forgone to fix now. Within the song you see a lot of hope that's been lost. But there had been hope there before. I don't know that it jells with a J. Butler interpretation.
@sadgreeneyes Right, but underlying it is this poignant sadness. This lost hope that we could have and should have been better... but that it's become so unrecognizable and the damage done so significant that it's too forgone to fix now. Within the song you see a lot of hope that's been lost. But there had been hope there before. I don't know that it jells with a J. Butler interpretation.
By far one of my fave ani songs. Actually basing my dissertation research on the political/social themes she so deftly deconstructs for us. And as for this stanza,
"why don't you just go ahead and turn off the sun 'cause we'll never live long enough to undo everything they've done to you"
well, that's just brilliant. She obviously is a Judith Butler fan and is referring to the fact that we are inscribed within a violent identity discourse before we are even born, and the extent to which our lives are just reproduction after reproduction of those power formations is completely inescapable.
@sadgreeneyes Right, but underlying it is this poignant sadness. This lost hope that we could have and should have been better... but that it's become so unrecognizable and the damage done so significant that it's too forgone to fix now. Within the song you see a lot of hope that's been lost. But there had been hope there before. I don't know that it jells with a J. Butler interpretation.
@sadgreeneyes Right, but underlying it is this poignant sadness. This lost hope that we could have and should have been better... but that it's become so unrecognizable and the damage done so significant that it's too forgone to fix now. Within the song you see a lot of hope that's been lost. But there had been hope there before. I don't know that it jells with a J. Butler interpretation.