I certainly like this song. It seems he is expressing a phone paranoia, a paranoia of the interconnectedness it brings, and the lack of privacy with that. Perhaps about phones, or everything in general. In a sort of Luddite like way.
"In Fall song 'Telephone Thing', Mark E Smith repeatedly asks 'How dare you assume I would want to parlez-vous with you? You Gretchen Franklin nosey matron type.' In an interview for the NME Mark E Smith revealed that he had thought he had made the name up and that it wasn't a reference to this Gretchen Franklin '
It seems she is a pretty prominent British actress. I wonder if it really was an accident or if he just said that to throw people off.
I certainly like this song. It seems he is expressing a phone paranoia, a paranoia of the interconnectedness it brings, and the lack of privacy with that. Perhaps about phones, or everything in general. In a sort of Luddite like way.
By the way the reference to Gretchen Franklin supposedly was an accident as quoted from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gretchen_Franklin#Trivia
"In Fall song 'Telephone Thing', Mark E Smith repeatedly asks 'How dare you assume I would want to parlez-vous with you? You Gretchen Franklin nosey matron type.' In an interview for the NME Mark E Smith revealed that he had thought he had made the name up and that it wasn't a reference to this Gretchen Franklin '
It seems she is a pretty prominent British actress. I wonder if it really was an accident or if he just said that to throw people off.