To KeEtMC: I understand where you are coming from but lyrical sophistication and emotional depth are not the point of this particular song. The persona taken on by the band when they sing is that of a strong, gruff, often disaffected man whose life never seems to straighten itself out. Much of Silver Side Up was about working through a bleak, angry landscape and facing down everything from child abuse (Never Again) to the death of a loved one (Woke Up This Mornin') and deep rural povery and abandonment (Too Bad), and then entering the upper echelons of society and finding it to be no more hospitable or accepting, even of its own, than the angry world they left (Hollywood, Money Bought). On a more personal level, the mix of anger and wry tenderness in How You Remind Me is incredibly poignant. As a whole, that entire collection represented a level of emotional force and depth couched in lyrical simplicity unlike anything I had listened to before or since (with the exception of Bruce Springsteen's album The Rising). Conceptually speaking, All the Right Reasons represented a softer side to the band (songs like Far Away and If Everyone Cared in particular, but also the only truly angry/militant songs on that CD were Next Contestant, Side of a Bullet, and Fight For All the Wrong Reasons, and even that last one was more conflicted than usual). From what I have heard, it appears that Dark Horse is attempting to weave together the old and the new, and thus return in part to the rough, tough, disaffected persona from Silver Side Up. This song essentially represents the flip side of that persona. While he is able to bear a level of pain, guilt, and anger that is nearly impossible to carry for most of us because his toughness shelters him, that same toughness also means that he (the persona) has no problem getting together with his buddies at a bar, getting ten kinds of shitfaced, acting like a wild man, and getting aggressive with anyone standing between him and more liquor. The point I am trying to make here is that we do not have to feel guilty about loving this song for its power despite its raw, unsophisticated, in some ways primitive attitude because it rounds out the album more and there is more than enough other material on the album to carry the lyrical weight.
I think his real intentions were to write about how primitive that behaviour is, because as he indicates in many of his songs.....he "woke up" to a different world, a real world....because he was once blinded by the selfishness and fear and anger of others.... Think about it "We're going till the world stops turning, While we burn it to the ground tonight"....and also.... "We got no class, no taste, no shirt, and shit faced"....the whole song is about people like this creating chaos and leading humanity to extinction....of course we are not the cause....we are influenced by the...
I think his real intentions were to write about how primitive that behaviour is, because as he indicates in many of his songs.....he "woke up" to a different world, a real world....because he was once blinded by the selfishness and fear and anger of others.... Think about it "We're going till the world stops turning, While we burn it to the ground tonight"....and also.... "We got no class, no taste, no shirt, and shit faced"....the whole song is about people like this creating chaos and leading humanity to extinction....of course we are not the cause....we are influenced by the architects of control....those who have us under a microscope, but we can wake up!!! and help one another wake up to these realities....
To KeEtMC: I understand where you are coming from but lyrical sophistication and emotional depth are not the point of this particular song. The persona taken on by the band when they sing is that of a strong, gruff, often disaffected man whose life never seems to straighten itself out. Much of Silver Side Up was about working through a bleak, angry landscape and facing down everything from child abuse (Never Again) to the death of a loved one (Woke Up This Mornin') and deep rural povery and abandonment (Too Bad), and then entering the upper echelons of society and finding it to be no more hospitable or accepting, even of its own, than the angry world they left (Hollywood, Money Bought). On a more personal level, the mix of anger and wry tenderness in How You Remind Me is incredibly poignant. As a whole, that entire collection represented a level of emotional force and depth couched in lyrical simplicity unlike anything I had listened to before or since (with the exception of Bruce Springsteen's album The Rising). Conceptually speaking, All the Right Reasons represented a softer side to the band (songs like Far Away and If Everyone Cared in particular, but also the only truly angry/militant songs on that CD were Next Contestant, Side of a Bullet, and Fight For All the Wrong Reasons, and even that last one was more conflicted than usual). From what I have heard, it appears that Dark Horse is attempting to weave together the old and the new, and thus return in part to the rough, tough, disaffected persona from Silver Side Up. This song essentially represents the flip side of that persona. While he is able to bear a level of pain, guilt, and anger that is nearly impossible to carry for most of us because his toughness shelters him, that same toughness also means that he (the persona) has no problem getting together with his buddies at a bar, getting ten kinds of shitfaced, acting like a wild man, and getting aggressive with anyone standing between him and more liquor. The point I am trying to make here is that we do not have to feel guilty about loving this song for its power despite its raw, unsophisticated, in some ways primitive attitude because it rounds out the album more and there is more than enough other material on the album to carry the lyrical weight.
Damn, man. That's good journalism.
Damn, man. That's good journalism.
I think his real intentions were to write about how primitive that behaviour is, because as he indicates in many of his songs.....he "woke up" to a different world, a real world....because he was once blinded by the selfishness and fear and anger of others.... Think about it "We're going till the world stops turning, While we burn it to the ground tonight"....and also.... "We got no class, no taste, no shirt, and shit faced"....the whole song is about people like this creating chaos and leading humanity to extinction....of course we are not the cause....we are influenced by the...
I think his real intentions were to write about how primitive that behaviour is, because as he indicates in many of his songs.....he "woke up" to a different world, a real world....because he was once blinded by the selfishness and fear and anger of others.... Think about it "We're going till the world stops turning, While we burn it to the ground tonight"....and also.... "We got no class, no taste, no shirt, and shit faced"....the whole song is about people like this creating chaos and leading humanity to extinction....of course we are not the cause....we are influenced by the architects of control....those who have us under a microscope, but we can wake up!!! and help one another wake up to these realities....