| Stereophonics – Handbags And Gladrags Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This is song is about materialism, bu it is mostly about growing up. It begs a question to everybody who has had everything handed to them, everybody whose ancestors worked their asses off so that they could buy cool crap without having to work with it. In the context of the lyrics, today "handbags and gladrags" could easily be replaced with "ipods and laptops". It's kind of about just being grateful and realizing that you're eventually going to have to grow up too. Again, in an especially modern context, what happens to you when you piss away your parents money by getting shitfaced at college for 4 years? Where has that gotten you? Life isn't as ideal as you think it's going to be (you can't just smile your way through it). In the specific sense it does have to do with a girl who has prioritized fashion and stuff, but the song works in a much more general way. She has prioritized the shallow, meaningless things in life because she hasn't ever really had to live enough to see that there's more, to grow up. The use of "fashion" could easily just be replaced with things like materialism, somebody watching TV all day, laziness--anything really when you're pissing away all that is given to you because it's given to you. And when you have spent your life focused on meaningless, useless things, and then you have to grow up and use real life skills and do real life work, you've got nothing without your shallow, meaningless existence that you've created for yourself. |
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