| Regina Spektor – Blue Lips Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I read over all of the answers I saw, and I've seen very few comments on the line about the Earth being blue from "far, far away". As you probably remember from school, the first person to see it was Yuri Gagarin who did say that it looked blue from space. He was also (wrongly) credited for stating that he didn't see God while he was up there (Nikita Khruschev is the actual source). I like a lot of these interpretations and lean myself toward the song being about trying to find spiritual meaning when you know that there's no proof that life goes on after death, but I think her starting point for the song was the oft-misquoted "The earth is blue, and there is no God." It wouldn't be the first time Gagarin's quote about the earth's color was paraphrased in a song. David Bowie did it too. | |
| Blondie – Rapture Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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The drug interpretation is always the easiest, but I honestly think this song is about the end of disco. Lots of references to disco culture, and there's a definite disco beat in the song. Debbie Harry got her start in disco, so it's not surprising that she would use a disco beat, but look at the references - sacroiliac is a pelvic joint, finger popping is that infamous disco move Travolta is doing on the cover of Saturday Night Fever, all of the mentions of bars where people meet and dance. Then the stuff about tea-time technology and the digital (ardour or whatever) which is a fun, slightly psychedelic way of saying that new digital technology is moving music forward. "Have your party on TV" refers to how music was getting a huge presence on TV with music videos (remember that MTV was NOT the first channel ever to show a music video, and their first video was "Video Killed the Radio Star", which is ALREADY about the same phenomenon to which Blondie's line refers). So my interpretation is the end of disco and with it the disco and cruising cultures being "eaten" by our own move forward in tastes and technology. |
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