I agree with the posters below, however Perfect System and Controller make me absolutely certain that Elfman read the book We by Yevgeny Zamyatin. The whole premise of the book is described perfectly by these two songs. A perfect system where people are shadowed by thought police and ultimately everyone has their "imagination excised" in a large scale operation. I posted this same response on Controller bc I want more people to hear of this book, which was Orwell's biggest inspiration for 1984 and imo much more relevant as a warning and more engaging as a fictional book.
I agree with the posters below, however Perfect System and Controller make me absolutely certain that Elfman read the book We by Yevgeny Zamyatin. The whole premise of the book is described perfectly by these two songs. A perfect system where people are shadowed by thought police and ultimately everyone has their "imagination excised" in a large scale operation. I posted this same response on Controller bc I want more people to hear of this book, which was Orwell's biggest inspiration for 1984 and imo much more relevant as a warning and more engaging as a fictional book.