Heh, I'm repeating myself, but I simply love how many different (and perfectly sensible and valid) interpretations you can get from these songs.
Here's an interesting and unusual one I came up with:
This song could be about the effect of the media and the "Hollywood syndrome" on people. A more subtle "Californication," perhaps?
A dismembered constellation would be a bunch of stars that are split apart and are off by themselves. They should be grouped together, but instead they alone. There are more kinds of stars than literal gaseous fireballs in the cosmos, such as movie stars or music stars.
The radiation, which has been going on for years, is the unintended(?) message that Hollywood has been sending out for years about the magic of the movies and the glamorous lifestyle of celebrities. It contaminates people's minds; they are left with dreams concocted by an industry that they can never achieve.
The stars from the dismembered constellation are the lonesome people who grew up in a western culture, who spent all their life idolizing movie stars and believing that the Hollywood lifestyle is what they truly want. The message is still, and always will be, reaching them, and plaguing or haunting them. They still feel that they can be rich and famous someday. They think they really belong among the Hollywood elite (a "constellation" or group of movie stars.) The gloomy and rainy sounding music and imagery of cobwebs falling on what these people bsaed their dreams on just illustrate what a sorry state they're in.
"Beyond your... etc." When you look past what the industry does (entertains, makes a point, spreads ideas, and most of all, sells) you see the people it effects.
The sad line about flies and spiders getting along together (really- brilliant writing.) shows the impossibility of these dreams. Flies and spiders could never get along, because spiders feed off of flies. Does Hollywood feed off of these people?
I like your interpretation more than anything else I've seen thus far. Cake is definitely a band that considers itself artistic (if not snooty about it), and which goes out of its way to occasionally throw their fans a deeper puzzle. They are also sometimes willing to be goofy and fun, which just shows that they want to be HUMAN and express all of the emotions we experience, instead of just writing music that "people want to listen to".
I like your interpretation more than anything else I've seen thus far. Cake is definitely a band that considers itself artistic (if not snooty about it), and which goes out of its way to occasionally throw their fans a deeper puzzle. They are also sometimes willing to be goofy and fun, which just shows that they want to be HUMAN and express all of the emotions we experience, instead of just writing music that "people want to listen to".
Anyone can sing about sex. Anyone can sing about how dope they are, or how depressed they are, or what they really want to be. This could easily be a song about an old person, or looming insanity, or a thousand other things. But I think this song is philosophical; the societal values of 50 years ago are as far away to most people as the constellations... yet someday, there is hope that these things will come back, and that our nostalgic memories (like Sinatra's charm, charisma, and manners, as opposed to his achy-breaky penis, his overinflated ego, or his disturbed emo-ness) will reappear as IMPORTANT parts of human relations.
Heh, I'm repeating myself, but I simply love how many different (and perfectly sensible and valid) interpretations you can get from these songs. Here's an interesting and unusual one I came up with:
This song could be about the effect of the media and the "Hollywood syndrome" on people. A more subtle "Californication," perhaps?
A dismembered constellation would be a bunch of stars that are split apart and are off by themselves. They should be grouped together, but instead they alone. There are more kinds of stars than literal gaseous fireballs in the cosmos, such as movie stars or music stars.
The radiation, which has been going on for years, is the unintended(?) message that Hollywood has been sending out for years about the magic of the movies and the glamorous lifestyle of celebrities. It contaminates people's minds; they are left with dreams concocted by an industry that they can never achieve.
The stars from the dismembered constellation are the lonesome people who grew up in a western culture, who spent all their life idolizing movie stars and believing that the Hollywood lifestyle is what they truly want. The message is still, and always will be, reaching them, and plaguing or haunting them. They still feel that they can be rich and famous someday. They think they really belong among the Hollywood elite (a "constellation" or group of movie stars.) The gloomy and rainy sounding music and imagery of cobwebs falling on what these people bsaed their dreams on just illustrate what a sorry state they're in.
"Beyond your... etc." When you look past what the industry does (entertains, makes a point, spreads ideas, and most of all, sells) you see the people it effects.
The sad line about flies and spiders getting along together (really- brilliant writing.) shows the impossibility of these dreams. Flies and spiders could never get along, because spiders feed off of flies. Does Hollywood feed off of these people?
... Eh, it's just an idea.
Very original take on this song.
Very original take on this song.
I like your interpretation more than anything else I've seen thus far. Cake is definitely a band that considers itself artistic (if not snooty about it), and which goes out of its way to occasionally throw their fans a deeper puzzle. They are also sometimes willing to be goofy and fun, which just shows that they want to be HUMAN and express all of the emotions we experience, instead of just writing music that "people want to listen to".
I like your interpretation more than anything else I've seen thus far. Cake is definitely a band that considers itself artistic (if not snooty about it), and which goes out of its way to occasionally throw their fans a deeper puzzle. They are also sometimes willing to be goofy and fun, which just shows that they want to be HUMAN and express all of the emotions we experience, instead of just writing music that "people want to listen to".
Anyone can sing about sex. Anyone can sing about how dope they are, or how depressed they are, or what they really want to be. This could easily be a song about an old person, or looming insanity, or a thousand other things. But I think this song is philosophical; the societal values of 50 years ago are as far away to most people as the constellations... yet someday, there is hope that these things will come back, and that our nostalgic memories (like Sinatra's charm, charisma, and manners, as opposed to his achy-breaky penis, his overinflated ego, or his disturbed emo-ness) will reappear as IMPORTANT parts of human relations.