A little weird hearing Autotuned Alice, but I really like this song. Alice is the master of doing subtle Christian songs (well, more subtle than most Christian bands I've heard examples of, anyway). This is the opening song on the new "Welcome 2 My Nightmare" CD, and listening to it today, the first thing that popped into my head was, "This is another of Alice's Christian-without-ever-overtly-mentioning Christianity songs". If you listen to the song and envision the singer singing it to God, it makes a lot of sense.
I'm not religious personally, but I've always liked Alice's way of reconciling shock rock and his obviously strong faith. Reading the lyrics to the rest of the CD it doesn't sound like he continues the Christian theme throughout the whole album, which is fine with me, but this is a good song and a good opener.
First, Alice has said publicly that he does not use autotune on this song. It's a vocoder, which can produce a similar kind of distortion.
First, Alice has said publicly that he does not use autotune on this song. It's a vocoder, which can produce a similar kind of distortion.
Second, one of the things I love most about Alice is that many of his songs can be interpreted on multiple levels. This is a classic example. Your interpretation is one and I certainly will not disparage it, however here's another that may be slightly more consistent with the theme and story-line:
Second, one of the things I love most about Alice is that many of his songs can be interpreted on multiple levels. This is a classic example. Your interpretation is one and I certainly will not disparage it, however here's another that may be slightly more consistent with the theme and story-line:
Steven has been living the nightmare for a long time. The human mind often comes up with creative ways to deal with persistent...
Steven has been living the nightmare for a long time. The human mind often comes up with creative ways to deal with persistent terror. One of those ways is multiple personalities. This song could be about one of those personalities coming to the surface and speaking to Steven. "Just a shadow", "left in pieces"... could refer to this alternate, previously subdued personality. But now he is able to make his presence known, but not in a direct way. Steven is still the body and still the voice - the new personality can only provide words and thoughts (You're the singer, I'm the song).
OK, so that's my interpretation.
One thing we all seem to agree on, though, it's a great song!
A little weird hearing Autotuned Alice, but I really like this song. Alice is the master of doing subtle Christian songs (well, more subtle than most Christian bands I've heard examples of, anyway). This is the opening song on the new "Welcome 2 My Nightmare" CD, and listening to it today, the first thing that popped into my head was, "This is another of Alice's Christian-without-ever-overtly-mentioning Christianity songs". If you listen to the song and envision the singer singing it to God, it makes a lot of sense.
I'm not religious personally, but I've always liked Alice's way of reconciling shock rock and his obviously strong faith. Reading the lyrics to the rest of the CD it doesn't sound like he continues the Christian theme throughout the whole album, which is fine with me, but this is a good song and a good opener.
First, Alice has said publicly that he does not use autotune on this song. It's a vocoder, which can produce a similar kind of distortion.
First, Alice has said publicly that he does not use autotune on this song. It's a vocoder, which can produce a similar kind of distortion.
Second, one of the things I love most about Alice is that many of his songs can be interpreted on multiple levels. This is a classic example. Your interpretation is one and I certainly will not disparage it, however here's another that may be slightly more consistent with the theme and story-line:
Second, one of the things I love most about Alice is that many of his songs can be interpreted on multiple levels. This is a classic example. Your interpretation is one and I certainly will not disparage it, however here's another that may be slightly more consistent with the theme and story-line:
Steven has been living the nightmare for a long time. The human mind often comes up with creative ways to deal with persistent...
Steven has been living the nightmare for a long time. The human mind often comes up with creative ways to deal with persistent terror. One of those ways is multiple personalities. This song could be about one of those personalities coming to the surface and speaking to Steven. "Just a shadow", "left in pieces"... could refer to this alternate, previously subdued personality. But now he is able to make his presence known, but not in a direct way. Steven is still the body and still the voice - the new personality can only provide words and thoughts (You're the singer, I'm the song).
OK, so that's my interpretation.
One thing we all seem to agree on, though, it's a great song!