On "A Trip to Felt Mountain" (the movie that comes on the bonus CD with Felt Mountain) Alison says what Utopia is about:
Quote:
"Utopia's about genetics and cloning and the idea that – I mean, I'm not saying that this is right, but I'm playing with the idea that if we're all striving to sort of be perfect and we want other people to look perfect, and we have this sort of body type that we're supposed to aspire to, basically what I'm saying is that that is a form of fascism."
And, yes, Violet Yoshi, it was inspired by the Sci Fi film Solaris. Here's Alison Goldfrapp's quote from X-ray Magazine, issue 12:
"The original Solaris is typical of a certain type of cinema being made around 67/68: real psychological thrillers. They're all about the idea of what it means to be human, the struggle of being human and what that is, love and death. All the basics, and usually quite depressing ! It's the quest for what it means to be human and about the idea of memory. It's almost too difficult. It directly influenced my song "Utopia". I'm interested in sci-fi and genetics and the idea of immortality. The sea in Solaris is this whole undulating living organism, like a brain. The hero loses his girlfriend. But she takes on another existence. He's lost in space but he's also lost in his mind. Everything is an analogy for human emotion. It's a visual thing. I'd really like to see the remake, I've heard it's not that bad. George Clooney wouldn't spring to my mind as the lead, but I suppose they've got to put a star in it or it wouldn't have gone anywhere ! There's not much action or dialogue. It's all in the lurking atmosphere."
On "A Trip to Felt Mountain" (the movie that comes on the bonus CD with Felt Mountain) Alison says what Utopia is about:
Quote: "Utopia's about genetics and cloning and the idea that – I mean, I'm not saying that this is right, but I'm playing with the idea that if we're all striving to sort of be perfect and we want other people to look perfect, and we have this sort of body type that we're supposed to aspire to, basically what I'm saying is that that is a form of fascism."
And, yes, Violet Yoshi, it was inspired by the Sci Fi film Solaris. Here's Alison Goldfrapp's quote from X-ray Magazine, issue 12:
"The original Solaris is typical of a certain type of cinema being made around 67/68: real psychological thrillers. They're all about the idea of what it means to be human, the struggle of being human and what that is, love and death. All the basics, and usually quite depressing ! It's the quest for what it means to be human and about the idea of memory. It's almost too difficult. It directly influenced my song "Utopia". I'm interested in sci-fi and genetics and the idea of immortality. The sea in Solaris is this whole undulating living organism, like a brain. The hero loses his girlfriend. But she takes on another existence. He's lost in space but he's also lost in his mind. Everything is an analogy for human emotion. It's a visual thing. I'd really like to see the remake, I've heard it's not that bad. George Clooney wouldn't spring to my mind as the lead, but I suppose they've got to put a star in it or it wouldn't have gone anywhere ! There's not much action or dialogue. It's all in the lurking atmosphere."
I'm not a superbrain. I got this information from http://goldfrapp.com/msgboard/showthread.php?p=57851 .