I figure Elvis probably saw something like this happen and wrote a song about it... I imagine the girl being on a New Year's Eve broadcast. Just an audience member, really. Drinking, dancing, with the camera lighting on her. Without warning, she bursts into tears. And as she walks through the spotlight, the dress becomes see-through without her being aware.
Elvis shines his own spotlight on the anonymous viewers: Empathizing with her sadness in verse one, being titillated by her transparent dress in verse two.
She goes back to her 'pitiful compromise'... probably the bad relationship that made her burst into tears. The TV audience return to their real lives. And the satellite, an unblinking eye that brings these secret lives into homes around the world, "blesses" us by keeping us untethered from the images we see.
I figure Elvis probably saw something like this happen and wrote a song about it... I imagine the girl being on a New Year's Eve broadcast. Just an audience member, really. Drinking, dancing, with the camera lighting on her. Without warning, she bursts into tears. And as she walks through the spotlight, the dress becomes see-through without her being aware.
Elvis shines his own spotlight on the anonymous viewers: Empathizing with her sadness in verse one, being titillated by her transparent dress in verse two.
She goes back to her 'pitiful compromise'... probably the bad relationship that made her burst into tears. The TV audience return to their real lives. And the satellite, an unblinking eye that brings these secret lives into homes around the world, "blesses" us by keeping us untethered from the images we see.