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Dear Xltronic, I am looking for a good website/book on the meaning of songs, and/or song titles. By "good", I mean something that is based on fact, confirmation by the artist(s) writing the music or at least people who knew/worked with them and where something is merely conjecture, it is identified as such and the author gives their reason for believing this. For a good example, . IE, not: Semi-literate teenagers talking about what the song means to them. People wildly hypothesising, without even providing their reasoning, much less backing these up with citations. Religious psychopaths claiming it's predicting The End of Days. Bigots claiming it's about the problems Muslims cause in the west. I know that some songs are intentionally abstract and lend themselves to multiple interpretations and consequently would not expect such a resource to be comprehensive. Any suggestions on where I might try? |
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I was going to say wikipedia, but you figured that out :) I think fans will always update the wiki pages of artists for this. (Also I get the feeling you already know ) |
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Would you accept a statistical method? For instance any given rap lyric has a chance of being about the following: 35% bitches 25% hoes 12% cash money 10% weed 8% purple drank 5% the n word 5% dawg 5% rolling in some kind of shit car The rest is insignificant like reading books, being a good father and getting a job. |
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they're all about heroin. |
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Apart from Velvet Underground's "Heroin", which is actually about Heroing but the track listing was a misprint. |
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free bird is about a stubborn bird who will not change |
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lol |
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clearly, you're looking for better answers than you'd get at the pub. go to a local uni and until you find the right guy with elbow patches that can explain everything to you. he'll know book that's like "Goldthwait's Lyrical Analysis, 8th ed." it will be like a book of lectures, exactly like you want. study it intensely. then read what john lennon said about how/why he wrote "i am the walrus" and realize you've just wasted a lot of your time on total nobbery. some lyrics don't mean anything; they just fit the meter. sometimes it's just raw aesthetics; jackson pollocking words. and sometimes it's a puckish cockney having an acid giggle over the silliness of analyzing music in an academic way. personally, i feel it's often a rorschach. people see what they want to see in lyrics. sometimes, artists deliberately make things ambiguous, as it gives people more freedom to make up their own little story to go with the lyrics. |
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"Kiedis wrote much of the song's lyrics during a period when he felt distraught and emotionally drained. He had maintained sobriety for roughly three years and felt that this had distanced him from his bandmates. While the group worked on Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Frusciante and Flea often smoked marijuana together, decisively ignoring and disregarding Kiedis. Because of this, Kiedis felt that Frusciante was "no longer in [his] world."" It's true. Hardcore stoners like to wax philosophical about how enlightened and peaceful they are, but in the end they are no different than any other clique defining itself via strict dogma (i.e. in this case blazing the ganja.) |
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what particuliar song do u want to know about? |
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you need someone like Slavoj Zizek to use psychoanalysis to find the meaning behind the meaning |
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I think you are being a little too exacting just skim over and take what you will from it |
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There used to be a site somewhere that tried to explain every single autechre track name. Some of it was quite cool actually. |
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Bullshit. |
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all ladytron songs are about cocaine, problem solved |
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