It's about how people can put on airs as if their material wealth and ciruumstances have truly solved all their problems and answered all their fears.
As if they're really above everyone and everything ("Eminence"), but it's really just a Front. And thus a put-on. Because they really just want to "Forget they're hiding" - from fears, insecurities, weaknesses, and maybe even their mortality.
And the way that they maintain this front, is to treat their lives like it's a care-free party, and abuse any who are not part of their lifestyle OR who threaten to reveal the shallowness and emptiness of their party ("Come and join the party - Dress to kill").
But everyone eventually grows older, and/or hit a rough patch in life. "The big wheel spins" (luck changes), the hair thins (people become older and no longer so able to coast on their youth), fame dwindles ("news slows") and with it money ("shares crash, hopes are dashed") - but even then the desperate attempt to put on an Eminence Front continues, and they'll still aggressively go after anyone who brings them to reality so they can maintain their own, desperately needed front of superiority and splendidness.
@ideamonkey Again, another great review that understands the basis to the song, but what is the REAL statement that Pete is making??? What "party" and who OWNS it? We live in a FAKE society! Post WWII, advertising/marketing dominated the western world. Why? For who?
@ideamonkey Again, another great review that understands the basis to the song, but what is the REAL statement that Pete is making??? What "party" and who OWNS it? We live in a FAKE society! Post WWII, advertising/marketing dominated the western world. Why? For who?
Remember this statement..."Hitler may have lost WWII, but Fascism won"...we live in a world owned by a VERY SMALL group of Corporate families that control governments and society thru printed paper money and their main weapons are the mainstream media and education. Their entire system is based upon turning us into mindless BOOBS!...
Remember this statement..."Hitler may have lost WWII, but Fascism won"...we live in a world owned by a VERY SMALL group of Corporate families that control governments and society thru printed paper money and their main weapons are the mainstream media and education. Their entire system is based upon turning us into mindless BOOBS! Thin-skinned, fragile, weak-minded people who JUDGE everything, instead of just "rolling with it". Like comedian Steve Hughes says, "You're offended? Who the fuck cares, you're an adult, deal with it...you don't get aids from being offended."
What Pete is saying is that we have LOST our true values, which should all be based on Love...Family, Friends, Mother Nature & following our passions; however we have been mind manipulated to become Zombies pursuing Money, Power, Sex and Consumer conveniences. We're lost! We watch the news, game shows, sitcoms and Hollywood movies where NONE OF IT IS REAL! Like in the brilliant movie, Network, we have to "WAKE UP GOD DAMMIT" We are human beings...we should be exploring every inch of the globe in Peace and Freedom, giving and taking in balance and harmony with both nature and other human beings...not working for 50+ years at meaningless jobs just so that we can hopefully retire (sans cancer) and enjoy some kind of freedom!!!
There are those that watch a movie like The Matrix and see only the fight scenes and action; while there are those who AWAKEN to the reality that we are working/consuming slaves to a power elite that doesn't give a fuck about us...at all...like the Super Furry Animals sang (borrowing the bridge from the Steely Dan song, Show Biz Kids), "they don't give a fuck about anybody else, no, they don't give a fuck about anybody else..."
It's about how people can put on airs as if their material wealth and ciruumstances have truly solved all their problems and answered all their fears.
As if they're really above everyone and everything ("Eminence"), but it's really just a Front. And thus a put-on. Because they really just want to "Forget they're hiding" - from fears, insecurities, weaknesses, and maybe even their mortality.
And the way that they maintain this front, is to treat their lives like it's a care-free party, and abuse any who are not part of their lifestyle OR who threaten to reveal the shallowness and emptiness of their party ("Come and join the party - Dress to kill").
But everyone eventually grows older, and/or hit a rough patch in life. "The big wheel spins" (luck changes), the hair thins (people become older and no longer so able to coast on their youth), fame dwindles ("news slows") and with it money ("shares crash, hopes are dashed") - but even then the desperate attempt to put on an Eminence Front continues, and they'll still aggressively go after anyone who brings them to reality so they can maintain their own, desperately needed front of superiority and splendidness.
@ideamonkey you have the best comment so far.... I am pretty sure everyone is on the right track here.
@ideamonkey you have the best comment so far.... I am pretty sure everyone is on the right track here.
@ideamonkey Again, another great review that understands the basis to the song, but what is the REAL statement that Pete is making??? What "party" and who OWNS it? We live in a FAKE society! Post WWII, advertising/marketing dominated the western world. Why? For who?
@ideamonkey Again, another great review that understands the basis to the song, but what is the REAL statement that Pete is making??? What "party" and who OWNS it? We live in a FAKE society! Post WWII, advertising/marketing dominated the western world. Why? For who?
Remember this statement..."Hitler may have lost WWII, but Fascism won"...we live in a world owned by a VERY SMALL group of Corporate families that control governments and society thru printed paper money and their main weapons are the mainstream media and education. Their entire system is based upon turning us into mindless BOOBS!...
Remember this statement..."Hitler may have lost WWII, but Fascism won"...we live in a world owned by a VERY SMALL group of Corporate families that control governments and society thru printed paper money and their main weapons are the mainstream media and education. Their entire system is based upon turning us into mindless BOOBS! Thin-skinned, fragile, weak-minded people who JUDGE everything, instead of just "rolling with it". Like comedian Steve Hughes says, "You're offended? Who the fuck cares, you're an adult, deal with it...you don't get aids from being offended."
What Pete is saying is that we have LOST our true values, which should all be based on Love...Family, Friends, Mother Nature & following our passions; however we have been mind manipulated to become Zombies pursuing Money, Power, Sex and Consumer conveniences. We're lost! We watch the news, game shows, sitcoms and Hollywood movies where NONE OF IT IS REAL! Like in the brilliant movie, Network, we have to "WAKE UP GOD DAMMIT" We are human beings...we should be exploring every inch of the globe in Peace and Freedom, giving and taking in balance and harmony with both nature and other human beings...not working for 50+ years at meaningless jobs just so that we can hopefully retire (sans cancer) and enjoy some kind of freedom!!!
There are those that watch a movie like The Matrix and see only the fight scenes and action; while there are those who AWAKEN to the reality that we are working/consuming slaves to a power elite that doesn't give a fuck about us...at all...like the Super Furry Animals sang (borrowing the bridge from the Steely Dan song, Show Biz Kids), "they don't give a fuck about anybody else, no, they don't give a fuck about anybody else..."