This song is basically what all the album's about. Damon Alburn gave this telling remark:
"I've always felt, I'm trying to get across on this new record, the idea that plastic, we see it as being against nature but it's come out of nature. We didn't create plastic, nature created plastic. And just seeing the snakes like living in the warmth of decomposing plastic bags. They like it. It was a strange kind of optimism that I felt... but trying to get that into pop music is a challenge, anyway. But important."
Whether you disagree or not, apply this to Pirate Jet and it makes sense. The sound is dark, but yet optimistic. The image of the taps left on for a hundred years is a terrifying concept in our enviromentally concerned media fuelled, lets all fly to Copenhagen to save the world and fail miserably. The fact that 2-D sings that this is 'good news' is not ironic, but reflects Alburn's own strange optimism.
I also think the lyric is the 'plastic creating people', which again portrays plastic as a creative force rather than a destructive one.
For this to be the last song on the album, short and odd, totally turns everything we've heard on the album upside down; we've heard all kinds of awfulness about the Plastic Beach, and the concluding note is that, despite what we might think, it's actually a good thing.
This song is basically what all the album's about. Damon Alburn gave this telling remark:
"I've always felt, I'm trying to get across on this new record, the idea that plastic, we see it as being against nature but it's come out of nature. We didn't create plastic, nature created plastic. And just seeing the snakes like living in the warmth of decomposing plastic bags. They like it. It was a strange kind of optimism that I felt... but trying to get that into pop music is a challenge, anyway. But important."
Whether you disagree or not, apply this to Pirate Jet and it makes sense. The sound is dark, but yet optimistic. The image of the taps left on for a hundred years is a terrifying concept in our enviromentally concerned media fuelled, lets all fly to Copenhagen to save the world and fail miserably. The fact that 2-D sings that this is 'good news' is not ironic, but reflects Alburn's own strange optimism.
I also think the lyric is the 'plastic creating people', which again portrays plastic as a creative force rather than a destructive one.
For this to be the last song on the album, short and odd, totally turns everything we've heard on the album upside down; we've heard all kinds of awfulness about the Plastic Beach, and the concluding note is that, despite what we might think, it's actually a good thing.
This makes me appreciate the song even more.
This makes me appreciate the song even more.