I don't think this song is necessarily about the media's portrayal of love and relationships, which is often very very false. Instead, I get the feeling that this song is about how many people these days are very cold and calculated, especially with relationships. Even now, with recent technologies like cell phones, facebook, etc. that are at our finger tips every day, it is very hard to tell how people truly feel these days. This could be explained with the following lyric: "Heart with an on/off switch and a remote control. Now you can program how you feel before you walk out the door." Plus, the techno logic imagery just screams out the theme of transhumanism (i.e. humans are not good enough naturally, we must improve them with technology...that kind of nonsence.)
Overall, I feel that this song is about criticizing modern day relationships + people.
I don't think this song is necessarily about the media's portrayal of love and relationships, which is often very very false. Instead, I get the feeling that this song is about how many people these days are very cold and calculated, especially with relationships. Even now, with recent technologies like cell phones, facebook, etc. that are at our finger tips every day, it is very hard to tell how people truly feel these days. This could be explained with the following lyric: "Heart with an on/off switch and a remote control. Now you can program how you feel before you walk out the door." Plus, the techno logic imagery just screams out the theme of transhumanism (i.e. humans are not good enough naturally, we must improve them with technology...that kind of nonsence.) Overall, I feel that this song is about criticizing modern day relationships + people.