| The White Stripes – Seven Nation Army Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Awesome interpretation. Thank you. | |
| The White Stripes – The Hardest Button to Button Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Yes, I have a similar opinion, but totally agree about buttonning the lip being the hardest. | |
| The White Stripes – The Hardest Button to Button Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| From listening to what I thought were the lyrics, I thought that the baby was burried in the back yard. I thought the stick and box were the box it was burried in and the stick was the tombstone (or tomb stick in this case). After reading the lyrics, I was obviously way off. | |
| The White Stripes – The Hardest Button to Button Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| One of the most interesting and original perspectives I have read thus far. Thank you for sharing your comment. | |
| The White Stripes – The Hardest Button to Button Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I love it too. But I diusagree about it being a good song because I think it is a great song from the most talented artist of his era and one of the most talented of arttists in the last century. | |
| The White Stripes – The Hardest Button to Button Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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First off, in my opinion, Jack White doesn't want his listners to have one specific or general meaning to his songs. I think he would want his listners to enjoy the meaning that each listner derives their own emational response to songs. Second, as far as the title, "The Hardest Button To Button," to me the hardest button for many to button is buttoning their lip (speaking their judgements of others, arguing, saying mean, gossipping, etc.). *I feel like the hardest button to button is the lip (baby crying & people about town gossipping their judgemental opinions) in this song.* Finally, I think the song is starts from the perspective of a kidergartener or early elementary student who is sharing with her/his class about his/her selves and her/his family, starting at the earliest memory that he/she has as an only child as her/his ma introduces his/her infant brother to her/him when he came home from the hospital for the first-time. Then he/she remembers the first toy (probably a gun that lit up with lights to entertain the newborn), the year this happened, and the only name she/he ever remembers his/her brother ever being called (ex: baby this, baby that). Then she/he describes the horror that he/she experienced (mental earthquake) when her/his brother first began teething and he/she thinks that when either literally sticking pins in a voodoo doll or metaphorically grabbing an object and taking out her/his frusterations on the object that he/she caused the crying to stop, when it was obviously something the parent had done, and was not understandable from this young childs mental framework of the world. Thus, showing the care she/he had for his/her baby brother. After this teething event, life went be reletively uneventful, but now they are a family and live in a house where they can fight (I think this indicates that her/his brother's father wasn't around before, but now their is a father and if you see them around town, he/she has something else to show you (probably another newborn sibling the ma gave birth to with the new father figure). It's easy when you don't know better (about the nature of her/his family structure or maybe knowing anything at all about them). The question "you think it's sleazy?" may be the other students' comment about his/her ma or family or replying to the community's general comment. Then put it (the sleazy comment) in a short letter may mean either write a letter to tell them in a less public manner or someone who cares (or as I would think, who gives a ****). Because we keep warm (as a family and metaphorically saying we have what we need and are there for each other), but you still have a problem with us (poor, untraditional family [as the judgements of them] who are doing fine), well there is just something wrong with you, you're are just the hardest button to button with your opinions, judgements, and gossip. I had opinions about things in general or whoever thinks the sleazyness. That does not matter might be because it is not right to say something mean back or because of being outcasted by other children, which has made her/him feel like he/she has a useless brain. With no frieds for her/him to play with now, there is just their yard, the family dog, and a box with whatever he/she imagines it to contain. Basically, I think it is about a child's first experience at making friends and introducing themselves and talking about their family, who they love very much; which, has nothing wrong with it, except being socially labeled as different. Child protective services worker, is this the 90% of children you are speaking about in your comment? If so, what does this indicate about society? |
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