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Mitski on 'My Love Mine All Mine' for Genius Verified (2023)
#mitski#my love mine all mine#the land is inhospitable and so are we#tliiasaw#genius lyrics#song meanings#shes just sooooo#i love her sm
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"Redundant is a song about when you're in a long term relationship with somebody, you have to keep reinventing it, and it takes a lot of compromise, and the person that you married or the person that you're with a year or two down the line – there are a lot of different sides to them that you have to come to recognize or be sensitive to that you never knew were there before. And likewise, 'cause I'm sure with my wife, there are a lot of sides of me that she didn't quite expect."
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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Meaning of the song "Bodys" by carseat headrest!!
'Bodys' by carseat headrest is a song that delves into the themes of intimacy, longing, and self exceptence. The lyrics describe a desire for physical and emotional connection, exploring the complexities of relationships, and the struggle to find comfort in one's own body. The songs meaning centres around the narrators desire to escape their insecurites and connect with another person on a deep, genuine level. It touches on body image and the idea that feeling at home in one's own body is an essential part of doing meaningful relationships. At the same time, it illustrates the awkwardness of physical contact within a relationship as will toledo awkwardly sings "those are you got some nice shoulders." Overall, 'bodys' is a song that speaks to the human longing for acceptance, both from oneself and others, highlighting the importance of self-love and vulnerability in building connections.
#carseat headrest#furry#will toledo#music#twin fantasy#csh#lgbtq#song meanings#definition#favorite songs#interests#facts
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Which of his songs does he think are truly personal?
"Songs like Madness, Dead Inside, Unintended, they're the obvious ones. But I think they all are in some way. Where I've created a slightly imaginary dystopian nightmare, I'm putting myself in there: what would I feel in that situation? In Knights Of Cydonia – ‘No one's going to take me alive’ – I've had that feeling of wanting to fight back against something."
He sips his tea. "Some of my favourite things I've ever received are fan letters from people that have had a depressive or traumatic period, and certain lyrics have given them strength to get through things. That is basically the whole reason I do this. Because I feel that writing and performing music is my own version of giving that to myself."
Matt Bellamy on personal meanings in Muse's songs | Q Magazine, April 2016
#matt bellamy#muse band#muse#on songwriting#muse interviews#Q Magazine#2016#Drones era#we talk about this often so I thought it interesting to quote out#all of Matt's songs really are personal— the political is personal#song meanings
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I believe in using songs to say things
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#song meanings#music collaboration#david bowie#nile rodgers#stevie ray vaughan#well crafted music#let’s dance#art
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Remember when Britney Spears made a song about masturbation that just happened to be a beautiful ode to not just "self love" but self love and knowing yourself not just sexually but spiritually and emotionally too??
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I JUST LEARNED WHAT CARELESS WHISPER BY GEORGE MICHAEL IS ABOUT AND I AM SHOOK
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MY WHOLE LIFE IS A LIE!
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THE 1 is what she says. DBATC is what she wants to say.
In my head The 1 is something she tells the muse and DBATC is something she wants to tell him. How?
Both songs have such a contrasting beginning. DBATC opens with the speaker revealing she is not fine AT ALL. She is drunk, faking happiness, and is absolutely miserable. But in the 1, she lets the muse think she is doing great. This could either mean that she is actually "doing good [she's] on some new shit" or that she no longer feels like she is close with the muse enough to let them know how she truly feels.
"I thought I saw you at the bus stop I didn't though" and "I see you everywhere the only thing we share is this small town" says the same thing. But the emotional weight in both of these lyrics are different. It's like she is trying to be casual about it but its killing her inside.
I hit the ground running each night, I hit the Sunday matinee//I dress to kill my time I take the long way home I ask the traffic lights if it will be allright》 She tells them she has found a routine and is no longer *upset* when in reality she's doing all of this as an attempt to move on from him and it's seemingly not working.
The 'greatest loves' of all time were never made//You said it was a great love one for the ages》 she wants to remind him that he said they were a 'great love' but she doesn't want to seem too invested in case he no longer feels that way.
She casually asks 'we were something don't you think so?' when in reality she is going through her 'my heart my hips my body my love tryna find a part of me that you didn't touch' phase.
We never painted by the numbers baby but we were making it count//our country guess it was a lawless land》 Paint by numbers is a phrase used relating to colouring books where each numbers are assigned to a particular color.This lyrics mean that the writer and the muse did not do things how you are 'supposed' to do and they did not do things the way everyone expected them to do
There could be more and I will add things as soon as I realise it
#death by a thousand cuts#DBATC#Taylor swift#analysis#song analysis#dbatc analysis#the one#the 1#the 1 analysis#song meanings#Taylor swift songs#my post
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"Goodnight Adeline deals with depression. The very last line is about when I get my shit together, ‘I know I’m going to climb my way out of this. I know I gotta wait for my Phoenix to rise from the ashes of this.' That song makes me think of singing in a stadium in England. It’s got a chorus you can really sing along to."
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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"Sable on Blond" is my serious statement on The Wild Heart. It fits into a particular group of my songs; "Rhiannon," "Beautiful Child" and "Sara." It reflects the mood I was in when I moved into my new house last year. It was a time when I was learning how to live with myself. "Sable in Blond" meant to learn how to be a stranger, to learn to be with yourself, to learn to be one color. In the legend of Excalibur, the sword is there for protection, but you don't call upon it unless it's absolutely necessary. During that period in my life, I was learning how not to call on the sword.
Stevie Nicks on Sable on Blond, Rock Magazine, October, 1983
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“It's a song for the unheard, I guess. It's a song for all the people that feel like their point of view can never get heard, that their frustrations can never be addressed. And then, there's these [viral social media personalities] with millions and millions of followers who are just dominating the airwaves, dominating the news stories. The song is almost fantasising about a fictional post-revolution period where democracy is a bit more accessible, we've reconfigured how to keep power in check.”
—Matt Bellamy on Liberation
'Will Of The People' is Muse's call for revolution: NPR interview
#matt bellamy#muse#muse band#Muse quotes#Muse interviews#song meanings#NPR interview#NPR#Muse Liberation#Will Of The People#2022#eh our boy isn't the Greatest at words sometimes... (despite what he maintains the song is about)
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“Yeah, here's the thing, two things. If the first time one of the fans listens to one of the songs and it means something to them, they ask me what it means and I tell them something different, for a start, I ruined the dream there. Secondly as a music fan, when I grew up listening to songs that I loved, obviously we didn’t have social media, it wasn’t as prevelant, even YouTube was just coming through, So it wasn’t as if I was watching many interviews of the bands that I loved, even at the time. The point I’m making is, I was free to draw my own conclusions from those lyrics. Even as a listener, that’s the experience that I’ve had. [Int: like the mystery of the music, the freedom.] Yeah, absolutely. Once I’ve finished writing it and it’s out there to the world, it means whatever it means to the listener. Like art in general, it’s open to interpretation.”
- On leaving songs open for interpretation [Alfa 91.3, 12.6.22]
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#green day#wake me up when september ends#alternative rock#song meanings#losing a parent#young grief
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TMBG: Dark Songs that Sound Cute
They Might Be Giants are lying assholes and I love them so much. I'm convinced they basically never tell the truth when they explain in interviews what their songs are "about." I've recently found out they're members of the Church of the SubGenius and are therefore agents of chaos, so this tracks.
Anyway, they have some completely adorable songs that are dark as fuck. I don't claim to have a handle on some of their songs, but a few I'm pretty confident about.
Boat of Car. The quirky 8-bit-sounding keyboards, Johnny Cash singing "Daddy'll sing bass," and the smooth harmonies might convince you this song is just a fun little song about someone's Chevy Vega or something. No, it is not.
I took my boat for a car.
I took that car for a ride.
Cars aren't boats. TMBG might sing about boat-cars--that's in character--but that's not what this is.
I was trying to get somewhere
but now I'm following
the traces of your fingernails
that run along the windshield
of my boat of car
The car went boat, i.e. it went in the water. And now the narrator is staring at fingernail marks on the windshield. Someone was clawing at the windshield from the inside. While drowning. It feels to me like there's a hint that the narrator murdered them by pushing the car into a lake with them locked inside, but sure, maybe it was an accident.
See the Constellation. Sounds like a cute story about someone just staring at the sky, feeling wistful about their love who went away a few years ago.
No.
I lay my head on the railroad tracks
They lay it out right there. Sure, they sing interesting things about staring at the sky, looking at the "guy made of dots and lines" in the sky (I imagine it's Orion, but that's because I don't know very many constellations), but the story is there in the lyrics. The narrator's love interest left a few years ago. Now he's here with his head on the railroad tracks. The second (and last) verse:
I found my mind on the ground below
I was looking down, it was looking back
I was in the sky all dressed in black
He's the one in the sky, now. He's the consetellation ("No cigar, no lady on his arm"). Because he's dead. The darkest interpretation might be that his "mind on the ground below" is his head, smashed or decapitated. Or maybe they don't intend such a gory detail, but I think it's clear; he's dead. People become constellations after death. I also think it's relatively well signaled that he committed suicide by lying on train tracks in the middle of the night. He has not dealt well with the loss of his love.
They'll Need a Crane. All right, this doesn't have a hidden meaning, it's just a very effective, painful description of a breakup or divorce.
Lad's gal is all he has.
Gal's gladness hangs upon the love of Lad.
They start out in love and depending on each other, but that doesn't last. Gal says things to Lad that are more hurtful than intended. Lad starts thinking of infidelity and Gal starts problematic drinking:
Lad looks at other gals
Gal thinks Jim Beam is handsomer than lad
He isn't bad
They are headed for divorce:
Call off the wedding band
Nobody wants to hear that one again
In the bridge things go off the rails in ways that feel gut-wrenchingly familiar to anyone who's ever been through a protracted breakup:
Don't call me at work again
No, no, the boss still hates me
I'm just tired and I don't love you anymore
And there's a restaurant we should check out
Where the other nightmare people like to go
I mean nice people—baby wait
I didn't mean to say nightmare
Every time I hear this I think, "No! That's not the horrible part!"
Anyway, they'll need a crane (maybe lawyers) to dismantle their house (i.e., their wedding) and that's the only path they have, now, back to personal happiness.
Denouement:
There are many more of these, but I have to go teach some classes.
It is worth noting that TMBG also do songs that (AFAIK) aren't dark or disturbing (e.g., Birdhouse In Your Soul, an adorable song about a night light). Additionally, for the past decade or two they've done mostly children's songs, which I don't think have any non-obvious meanings; they're just fun songs. They started doing what might be called "children's songs" at performances in the 1980s, though I think the songs were more an expression of their love for kitsch; an appreciation of the odd and compelling style of educational media. They turned that into their post-indie career, and it's awesome. Go listen to Why Does the Sun Shine? (which they used to just throw into their concerts back in the day) or Don't Cross the Street in the Middle of the Block, a tune they dug out of the NY Transit Authority's (I think) archives and recorded with a woman I fell in love with purely because of that amazing vocal performance (I don't know her name; it's more of a "crush from very afar" situation).
You might also check out their actual non-ironic kids' songs like I'm a Paleontologist, Clap Your Hands (just try not to bounce when you hear it), or Electric Car.
To sum up: TMBG are and have always been one of the most fascinating and amazing musical groups in the whole fucking world.
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