BombTheBourgeoisie puts it well: it’s about the aching blandness of the bourgeois. The video of this song reinforces that. The entire video is of some large family having a weekend lunch in an idealistic modern western setting. And the emphasis of the video is on how BORING this is. There’s nothing in it except eating, and changing of the dishes. The most intense highlight (shown with strobelights and changing colors) is bringing out the enormous dessert. And to think of it – this is the most exciting part? Entire life of the “mother” involves around making and serving food. She doesn’t even take off her apron. Such life might be satisfying in a numbing way, but it’s utterly closed and bland; and the deadly ironic smile of Damon speaks of it powerfully. He’s not even going to revolt or protest. He’s part of that family, where even the young girls wear identical clothes, and play the most dumb and innocent game in the backyard – throwing a little ball to each other. If you have had the experience of some wider outlook of life, you would find this idyll sickening, as is demonstrated by the worm in the beginning and the end of the video. But, from the point of view of someone who has never been “out there” – there’s no other way. But still even these people get some vague feeling of uneasiness, and they have to admit that someone somewhere can actually “play”, but they are limited (by their own character and lack of courage or willingness) to just “watch them play”.
I’ve also downvoted some comments which say nothing but “great song, great band”. As well-intentioned as these comments are, they are just a visual pollution. I also share the opinion that the song is nice, but this space is about discussing songs meanings, isn’t it? If everyone who likes this song would leave here such a comment, any meaningful/interesting comments would get drowned in this. So my downvote doesn’t mean that I don’t agree with the “like” contents, it just means that I’m proposing for the people to be more considerate of why and what are they saying, and of the overall effects of communication in our age, overloaded by information. We don’t have much more platforms left which are still relatively pure and uncluttered with bells and whistles of advertisements as this site; so let’s try to keep it this way for the time being. So no offence, people; PeaceSexRocknRoll!
P.S. and please don’t bomb the bourgeoisie. They’re already suffering enough (mostly unconsciously, mostly in waking sleep), and bombing them will make them just erect more stupid fences and gated communities. We should strive to lift them up from the blandness, by engaging and daring them to dance; but not by aggravating mutual separation. After all, they are not “they”, they are us; in the core we’re all the same. There’s no other way.
BombTheBourgeoisie puts it well: it’s about the aching blandness of the bourgeois. The video of this song reinforces that. The entire video is of some large family having a weekend lunch in an idealistic modern western setting. And the emphasis of the video is on how BORING this is. There’s nothing in it except eating, and changing of the dishes. The most intense highlight (shown with strobelights and changing colors) is bringing out the enormous dessert. And to think of it – this is the most exciting part? Entire life of the “mother” involves around making and serving food. She doesn’t even take off her apron. Such life might be satisfying in a numbing way, but it’s utterly closed and bland; and the deadly ironic smile of Damon speaks of it powerfully. He’s not even going to revolt or protest. He’s part of that family, where even the young girls wear identical clothes, and play the most dumb and innocent game in the backyard – throwing a little ball to each other. If you have had the experience of some wider outlook of life, you would find this idyll sickening, as is demonstrated by the worm in the beginning and the end of the video. But, from the point of view of someone who has never been “out there” – there’s no other way. But still even these people get some vague feeling of uneasiness, and they have to admit that someone somewhere can actually “play”, but they are limited (by their own character and lack of courage or willingness) to just “watch them play”.
I’ve also downvoted some comments which say nothing but “great song, great band”. As well-intentioned as these comments are, they are just a visual pollution. I also share the opinion that the song is nice, but this space is about discussing songs meanings, isn’t it? If everyone who likes this song would leave here such a comment, any meaningful/interesting comments would get drowned in this. So my downvote doesn’t mean that I don’t agree with the “like” contents, it just means that I’m proposing for the people to be more considerate of why and what are they saying, and of the overall effects of communication in our age, overloaded by information. We don’t have much more platforms left which are still relatively pure and uncluttered with bells and whistles of advertisements as this site; so let’s try to keep it this way for the time being. So no offence, people; PeaceSexRocknRoll!
P.S. and please don’t bomb the bourgeoisie. They’re already suffering enough (mostly unconsciously, mostly in waking sleep), and bombing them will make them just erect more stupid fences and gated communities. We should strive to lift them up from the blandness, by engaging and daring them to dance; but not by aggravating mutual separation. After all, they are not “they”, they are us; in the core we’re all the same. There’s no other way.
@serp Brilliant analysis! Thanks
@serp Brilliant analysis! Thanks
@serp Very good reading! Thank you!
@serp Very good reading! Thank you!