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It's a strange day
No colors or shapes
No sound in my head
I forget who I am
When I'm with you
There's no reason
There's no sense
I'm not supposed to feel
I forget who I am
I forget
Fascist baby
Utopia, utopia
My dog needs new ears
Make his eyes see forever
Make him live like me
Again and again
Fascist baby
Utopia, utopia
I'm wired to the world
That's how I know everything
I'm super brain
That's how they made me
Fascist baby
Utopia, utopia
No colors or shapes
No sound in my head
I forget who I am
When I'm with you
There's no reason
There's no sense
I'm not supposed to feel
I forget who I am
I forget
Fascist baby
Utopia, utopia
My dog needs new ears
Make his eyes see forever
Make him live like me
Again and again
Fascist baby
Utopia, utopia
I'm wired to the world
That's how I know everything
I'm super brain
That's how they made me
Fascist baby
Utopia, utopia
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"Utopia's about genetics and cloning and the idea that — I mean, I'm not saying that this is right, but I'm playing with the idea that if we're all striving to sort of be perfect and we want other people to look perfect, and we have this sort of body type that we're supposed to aspire to, basically what I'm saying is that that is a form of fascism."
And, yes, Violet Yoshi, it was inspired by the Sci Fi film Solaris. Here's Alison Goldfrapp's quote from X-ray Magazine, issue 12:
"The original Solaris is typical of a certain type of cinema being made around 67/68: real psychological thrillers. They're all about the idea of what it means to be human, the struggle of being human and what that is, love and death. All the basics, and usually quite depressing ! It's the quest for what it means to be human and about the idea of memory. It's almost too difficult. It directly influenced my song "Utopia". I'm interested in sci-fi and genetics and the idea of immortality. The sea in Solaris is this whole undulating living organism, like a brain. The hero loses his girlfriend. But she takes on another existence. He's lost in space but he's also lost in his mind. Everything is an analogy for human emotion. It's a visual thing. I'd really like to see the remake, I've heard it's not that bad. George Clooney wouldn't spring to my mind as the lead, but I suppose they've got to put a star in it or it wouldn't have gone anywhere ! There's not much action or dialogue. It's all in the lurking atmosphere."
I'm not a superbrain. I got this information from goldfrapp.com/msgboard/… .
My dog needs new ears
Make his eyes see forever
Make him live like me
Again and again
I've thought about it alot, but nothing I come up with makes any sense.. For all I know, that might just be the point of it..
I imagine that this song is being sung by a woman, who, for whatever reason, was kidnapped long ago as a child, taken to a laboratory along with other children and experimented upon. The scientists' work concerned fusing a human's brain into a transglobal network (internet) that taps into all connected systems be they computer, telecommunications, surveilance or otherwise. To handle and disseminate this mass of information, the human brain was chosen as the interface between the network and the enduser (the scientists and whoever they are working for - I imagine some Big Brother (fascist) type state organisation). They were successful in making her part of the system. However, in order to cut out distractions and limit insight into what she was, she has been made to lose most of her sense of self and been told/modified to believe that she is not supposed to feel or sense anything outside the world of her intended function, thus this vagueness over what she sees, feels and remembers (as indicated by the lyrics in the first part of the song). Her function is to propogate Utopia through her job as the Fascist's eyes and ears to the world. However, there is one aspect from her previous life that they have failed to erradicate and that was her love for her childhood pet dog. She remembers the joy, love and togetherness of their relationship and so she speaks of her desire to bring that into her present, for her not to be alone but have again in some sense, that companionship and love she remembers, eternally. Perhaps the saddest lines are the last ones, where she indicates that she does actually know what she is and what was done to her. I get such a feeling of resignation and powerlessness from those lines.
As I listen to the song, I visualise her, the screen filled with her sleeping face, as if dreaming. Then as the song progresses, the camera pans out and by the latter part of the song, you see that she is in fact immobile, in a perspex box, wires trailing from her head and machinery all around her manned by scientists as they continue their work, oblivious of her thoughts and feelings.
It is ironic to me how the song sings of Utopia yet the for the subject and for the world, living in a fascist, Big Brother-type state it is in fact a Distopia.......