LucieAndCo
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I'm really sorry for the ignorant comments I made on this website back in the day.
| Emilie Autumn – Thank God I'm Pretty Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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She's truly privileged to look this good without clothes on? Well! It's not as if anybody was forcing her to wear lingerie or less, and release her albums with more photographs than words in the booklets, and a poster, too, etc. etc. And it isn't even her God-given striking features that the world gets to see, it's all buried under six feet of make-up. I do think her music wouldn't be half as much 'listened' to if it came from someone plump, pimpled, and pasty-faced in a giant woolen sweater and shapeless blue jeans, but something tells me that that isn't what she's complaining about - much rather, she seems upset by the realisation that other people may have noticed how much she sells just on appearance, and now she's rushing to say IT'S NOT MY FAULT IS IT before accusations are made (well, they certainly HAVE been made already), using sarcasm to show her intelligent view on a subject that someone so eager to be viewn as intelligent might not have wanted to draw even more attention to. To me, it only furthers 'suspicion'. I've nothing against Emilie Autumn and she has every right in the world to be the image she wants to be - but complaints about an unfair focus on outer aspects from someone who obviously pays such a great deal of attention to their looks and style seem somewhat phoney. |
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| CocoRosie – Animals Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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My favourite as well. The willow ("Wild willow, windy winter, won't you blow through me ...") is also addressed in "Werewolf", interestingly ("Weeping willow, won't you wallow louder"), which suggests that the two go together - that'd make the 'he' at the beginning of the song the speaker's father, possibly, and the one towards the end (of whom she says she might resemble his mother, ergo if she is the mother, her lover is the father) one of the lovers she turns to that are just like him. Then in this song there's that sense of recognising that leaf-in-the-wind, here-and-there-and-nowhere kind of life she's leading (also through the death of the brother, who is also mentioned in "Werewolf") and after a long phase of loneliness and doomed affairs that she fled into 'desperate for love' possibly returning to what remains of the family. Or it could just be another beatnik fairy tale :) |
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| The Divine Comedy – A Woman Of The World Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I agree with monkfluence. There are several references/literal quotes, including "fake, but a real fake" (it's "phony" in the film, not sure about the book), the "rats" and "super rats" and the "fifty dollar bill". Nice song. | |
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