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Let’s go downtown and watch the modern kids
Let’s go downtown and talk to the modern kids
They will eat right out of your hand
Using great big words that they don’t understand
They’re singing
Rococo, Rococo, Rococo, Rococo…
Rococo, Rococo, Rococo, Rococo…
They build it up just to burn it back down
They build it up just to burn it back down
The wind is blowing all the ashes around
Oh my dear God what is that horrible song?
They’re singing
Rococo, Rococo, Rococo, Rococo…
Rococo, Rococo, Rococo, Rococo…
They seem wild but they are so tame
They seem wild but they are so tame
They’re moving towards you with their colors all the same
They want to own you but they don’t know what game
They’re playing
Rococo, Rococo, Rococo, Rococo
Rococo, Rococo, Rococo, Rococo
Let’s go downtown and talk to the modern kids
They will eat right out of your hand
Using great big words that they don’t understand
They’re singing
Rococo, Rococo, Rococo, Rococo…
Rococo, Rococo, Rococo, Rococo…
They build it up just to burn it back down
They build it up just to burn it back down
The wind is blowing all the ashes around
Oh my dear God what is that horrible song?
They’re singing
Rococo, Rococo, Rococo, Rococo…
Rococo, Rococo, Rococo, Rococo…
They seem wild but they are so tame
They seem wild but they are so tame
They’re moving towards you with their colors all the same
They want to own you but they don’t know what game
They’re playing
Rococo, Rococo, Rococo, Rococo
Rococo, Rococo, Rococo, Rococo
Lyrics submitted by Fatzers
Track duration: 03:56
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"They build it up just to burn it back down."
I think this refers to all the new technology of today: they are always coming out with something new. If something is broken, you fix it; you don't throw it away, you don't replace it, but that idea has faded away in this modern culture.
So, IMO This song is basically about the kids that were born in the modern man’s way of thinking. It’s about how their personalities are so weak. They have so many insecurities and feel so empty because of the new methods of interacting with each other on the technology that they build up an emotional armor to defend themselves.
{Let’s go downtown and watch the modern kids/ let’s go downtown and talk to the modern kids} So, obviously this new mentality comes from the big and civilized cities of the big western countries. {They will eat right out of your hand/ Using great big words that they don’t understand} The new kids are predictable and want others to know that they are more than just a stereotype with nothing more to give…Even if it’s exactly what they are.
{They build it up just to burn t back down} Here another characteristic of this new mentality: The ‘’If is too difficult, I don’t want it. If it’s too old, I don’t want it’’ one. That’s why they think they have to discard a new thing so they get the newest one. These kids have an IPhone 4 today and tomorrow will cry out for an IPhone 5. This goes to the personal life too where they don’t valorize some feelings and find it easy to just get away from other people. {The wind is blowing all the ashes around} The consequences of those things above are already here. Our planet cannot hold back for us much longer and people are more closed to each other… They stay all day in their house with their virtual friends and their computers (as I am right now) instead of going out with friends or socializing or even discovering they own country with their own eyes. {Oh my dear God…} is related to the chorus ‘’they are singing Rococo’’ and I’ll talk about it later.
{They seem wild but they are so tame} Again, they want seem something more but they just aren’t something more…Maybe they wanna feel they are different and special but ‘’they are so tame’’. {They’re moving towards you with their colors all the same/ they want to own you but they don’t know what game/ they’re playing} They are acting just like the modern man. But they were born in it… unlike older people, they don’t understand how life was before the modern man got in our society – that’s why they don’t understand the game neither. They do not see a change because they were raised after it…So it’s strange to talk about the time before… They just understand the time of the present.
The rococo chorus: I don’t know if it refers to the artist movement or if it refers to nothing at all. I think the important thing here is: that’s meaningless… They are this new generation that wants something to fight for but they are too dependent on others… So they yell and they break down things for the ‘’Rococo cause’’…The thing is: they have no cause at all.
Sorry for my bad English, not my native language.
And as I said… Only my opinion. When I hear the full album I think my explanation fits right in it.
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So, IMO This song is basically about the kids that were born in the modern man’s way of thinking. It’s about how their personalities are so weak. They have so many insecurities and feel so empty because of the new methods of interacting with each other on the technology that they build up an emotional armor to defend themselves.
{Let’s go downtown and watch the modern kids/ let’s go downtown and talk to the modern kids} So, obviously this new mentality comes from the big and civilized cities of the big western countries. {They will eat right out of your hand/ Using great big words that they don’t understand} The new kids are predictable and want others to know that they are more than just a stereotype with nothing more to give…Even if it’s exactly what they are.
{They build it up just to burn t back down} Here another characteristic of this new mentality: The ‘’If is too difficult, I don’t want it. If it’s too old, I don’t want it’’ one. That’s why they think they have to discard a new thing so they get the newest one. These kids have an IPhone 4 today and tomorrow will cry out for an IPhone 5. This goes to the personal life too where they don’t valorize some feelings and find it easy to just get away from other people. {The wind is blowing all the ashes around} The consequences of those things above are already here. Our planet cannot hold back for us much longer and people are more closed to each other… They stay all day in their house with their virtual friends and their computers (as I am right now) instead of going out with friends or socializing or even discovering they own country with their own eyes. {Oh my dear God…} is related to the chorus ‘’they are singing Rococo’’ and I’ll talk about it later.
{They seem wild but they are so tame} Again, they want seem something more but they just aren’t something more…Maybe they wanna feel they are different and special but ‘’they are so tame’’. {They’re moving towards you with their colors all the same/ they want to own you but they don’t know what game/ they’re playing} They are acting just like the modern man. But they were born in it… unlike older people, they don’t understand how life was before the modern man got in our society – that’s why they don’t understand the game neither. They do not see a change because they were raised after it…So it’s strange to talk about the time before… They just understand the time of the present.
The rococo chorus: I don’t know if it refers to the artist movement or if it refers to nothing at all. I think the important thing here is: that’s meaningless… They are this new generation that wants something to fight for but they are too dependent on others… So they yell and they break down things for the ‘’Rococo cause’’…
Sorry for my bad English, not my native language.
And as I said… Only my opinion. When I hear the full album I think my explanation fits right in it.
No where in this album are comments about political entities ever mentioned or conspiratory theories ever discussed. It would be safe to say that there are defined and clear attitudes towards what we presently react to in society. What Rococo represents and parallels with that and current "hipster" or the "sophisticated yuppy" emergence may be closer to the truth. Where this new enclave of "art" or "music" enthusiast came from is uncertain. I think the song distills the idea of how these people sound and act and offensive they are to those around them. Coming from a time where there were equal amounts of Goth , Punk, Metal , Hip Hop, Indy Rock and Pop or New Wave enthusiasts I am not certain where the "Hipster" came from. Self appointed critic of all things cool they try to merge several historical attitudes and post punk cultural awareness that they borrow from other peoples internet blogs and Ebook of the week qotations. They are not unlike the "society kids"
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Arcade Fire is not the only band to esoterically pride themselves of these undertones...take Manchester Orchestra and even Lady Gaga...
To find out more visit vigilantcitizen.com
and remember,
Once you take the red pill, there is no turning back.