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What's up directors? Grab your knives!
It's time to take all all of the lives
Of the people who cannot see the somnolent genius of Tarkovsky
Come on authors grab your guns!
It's time to murder everyone who has never heard of Apollinaire
Send them all to hell it's only fair
Cast them all into the flames if they don't know any names
Of the principles of Arte Povera
Or are unfamiliar with le serpent mascara
That's right mascara snake!!!
Come on painters alive or dead
Give all the cretins a boot to the head
If they don't extoll convincingly
Tempered Elan era Kandinsky
Throw them all into a well if they cannot tell
An Arto Parv feast of repitition from a Schoenburg 12 tone composition
Come on artists the day is here
And your mission is very clear
Put an end to the bourgoussie
And death to everyone who's never heard of me
It's time to take all all of the lives
Of the people who cannot see the somnolent genius of Tarkovsky
Come on authors grab your guns!
It's time to murder everyone who has never heard of Apollinaire
Send them all to hell it's only fair
Cast them all into the flames if they don't know any names
Of the principles of Arte Povera
Or are unfamiliar with le serpent mascara
That's right mascara snake!!!
Come on painters alive or dead
Give all the cretins a boot to the head
If they don't extoll convincingly
Tempered Elan era Kandinsky
Throw them all into a well if they cannot tell
An Arto Parv feast of repitition from a Schoenburg 12 tone composition
Come on artists the day is here
And your mission is very clear
Put an end to the bourgoussie
And death to everyone who's never heard of me
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This is how Art Snobs feel about people who aren't either fellow Art Snobs, Artists, Musicians, Art History Buffs, Art Collecters, and et cetera. so this is what this song is about. Everyone, grab your knives, we're gonna kill all the people who don't know anything about art!
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can anyone agree with me that they're referencing The Frantics' sketch of the same name?
i was listening to ella guru and it said mascara snake and i was like WAIT THEY REFERENCED MASCARA SNAKE IN ART SNOB SOLUTIONS but then i read that someone else had gotten there first.
A word about 12-tone:
Some have described it earlier, accurately, but not completely understandable to a non-music person. From what I remember from music theory, 12-tone is a musical practice in which one cannot repeat one of any of the 12 chromatic tones until all 12 have been played. The effect is, as someone said before, generally completely horrible. Das Mondschein (spelling?) is a classic example, and I think everyone in my Music Theory class cringed upon hearing the first notes.
I believe 12-tone was a response to the horrors of the first world war? But, I'm no expert! haha
Anyways this song is ridiculously ironic, seeing as only a complete art snob would get all of it (come on, like EVERYONE knows EVERY REFERENCE?) and yet he moques all snobbery. =)
"And death to everyone who’s never heard of me"
haha thats the truth, these guys are great