The song, like American Pie, reflects the end of an era. Not the birth of rock but its death. A similar loss of innocence as the hopes of ‘65 (see ‘the night they drove old dixie down’) finally give way to the realities of a dying counter-culture! A dream of modernist populism hijacked by a post-modern band named after a dildo who reject ‘the showbiz kids’. In reality there is no escape. Even into irony and nostalgia. “This is your Haitian Divorce’.
The song, like American Pie, reflects the end of an era. Not the birth of rock but its death. A similar loss of innocence as the hopes of ‘65 (see ‘the night they drove old dixie down’) finally give way to the realities of a dying counter-culture! A dream of modernist populism hijacked by a post-modern band named after a dildo who reject ‘the showbiz kids’. In reality there is no escape. Even into irony and nostalgia. “This is your Haitian Divorce’.