This song is much more than just a humorous tale of gender confusion. Remember that the album (lola vs powerman the moneygoround) is a concept album that tells a story about a young singer and his raise to fame and struggles with the music industry. Very critical of the business, the media, the fans, etc. This particular track comes right after "Get Back in Line" - a song about being poor and in the welfare line, the only way out being the 'union man', to follow certain rules and join the system, to forget about being an artist and just doing what the businessmen say. The song after "Lola", 'Top of the Pops' is about how he finally did it, he has a pop single and now he can make lots of money now.
So, the deeper meaning of Lola should become obvious. The song itself brought the Kinks back into popularity and was a huge successful single. In the story of the album, this is also the case. This is the song that the hero writes that finally gets him some money as mentioned in 'top of the pops', because it's a pop song about love with a sing-along chorus and it's exactly what they want. Ray Davies is basically jerking us all around, it's like we are not just listening to the song like any other song, we are listening to the song being played on a jukebox in the fictional world of the album. you dig?
There is another layer as well. Lola in the song isn't an actual person, it is a representation of the music business. It will look all friendly and female and sexy and enticing, get you drunk on champaigne and say it will "make you a man" ahem...but in reality it's all an illusion, its' a devious man pulling strings and pushing you around and forcing you to your knees. And if you do what he says, he'll make you a star.
@enjoymywaffles I wish you were right because your line of thoughts makes nice clicks to my ears, but I am afraid you're only projecting your fantasies about this song and the Kinks in general. It seems more likely that the song originates in what Ray Davies has already described in biographies, he (or his manager, it's not very clear) was drunk, and started dancing in a club with a superb woman, only to realize later on that said woman had a DICK between the legs, uhuhuh
@enjoymywaffles I wish you were right because your line of thoughts makes nice clicks to my ears, but I am afraid you're only projecting your fantasies about this song and the Kinks in general. It seems more likely that the song originates in what Ray Davies has already described in biographies, he (or his manager, it's not very clear) was drunk, and started dancing in a club with a superb woman, only to realize later on that said woman had a DICK between the legs, uhuhuh
This song is much more than just a humorous tale of gender confusion. Remember that the album (lola vs powerman the moneygoround) is a concept album that tells a story about a young singer and his raise to fame and struggles with the music industry. Very critical of the business, the media, the fans, etc. This particular track comes right after "Get Back in Line" - a song about being poor and in the welfare line, the only way out being the 'union man', to follow certain rules and join the system, to forget about being an artist and just doing what the businessmen say. The song after "Lola", 'Top of the Pops' is about how he finally did it, he has a pop single and now he can make lots of money now.
So, the deeper meaning of Lola should become obvious. The song itself brought the Kinks back into popularity and was a huge successful single. In the story of the album, this is also the case. This is the song that the hero writes that finally gets him some money as mentioned in 'top of the pops', because it's a pop song about love with a sing-along chorus and it's exactly what they want. Ray Davies is basically jerking us all around, it's like we are not just listening to the song like any other song, we are listening to the song being played on a jukebox in the fictional world of the album. you dig?
There is another layer as well. Lola in the song isn't an actual person, it is a representation of the music business. It will look all friendly and female and sexy and enticing, get you drunk on champaigne and say it will "make you a man" ahem...but in reality it's all an illusion, its' a devious man pulling strings and pushing you around and forcing you to your knees. And if you do what he says, he'll make you a star.
I've never heard the whole album, but that makes a lot of sense. I like your definition, it's very interesting and well thought out.
I've never heard the whole album, but that makes a lot of sense. I like your definition, it's very interesting and well thought out.
@enjoymywaffles I wish you were right because your line of thoughts makes nice clicks to my ears, but I am afraid you're only projecting your fantasies about this song and the Kinks in general. It seems more likely that the song originates in what Ray Davies has already described in biographies, he (or his manager, it's not very clear) was drunk, and started dancing in a club with a superb woman, only to realize later on that said woman had a DICK between the legs, uhuhuh
@enjoymywaffles I wish you were right because your line of thoughts makes nice clicks to my ears, but I am afraid you're only projecting your fantasies about this song and the Kinks in general. It seems more likely that the song originates in what Ray Davies has already described in biographies, he (or his manager, it's not very clear) was drunk, and started dancing in a club with a superb woman, only to realize later on that said woman had a DICK between the legs, uhuhuh