I really think this is about the media, especially MTV. “This isn't your song, this isn't your music how can there be wrong, when by committee they choose it all” this is true. Songs on MTV only become popular once they are played on TRL 100000 times, there is no viewer control when it comes to TRL, or listen control when it comes to Viacom controlled radio stations. “Bearing signs on the avenue, for your own personal waterloo” Kids today are spending more time standing out side of TRL in New York screaming to get on TV then actually caring about real issues. “Precious Territory” culture, any sort of culture to MTV is something to conquer so they can make money off it. Then the part of “You’re gonna grow old, you’re going to grow cold” Youth is being wasted. Youth today is all about getting wasted and having expensive purses. MTV is teaching teenagers that such a shallow existence is normal, and acceptable. MTV isn’t evil, but if you let MTV live your youth, then you will be a very dull undeveloped adult. You wont have a personality or real interests. Lastly the lines “We’ll fight for your music halls and dying cities, and they’ll fight for your neural walls and plasticites.” Neural tube, being the tube in the womb that connects directly to the brain and plasticity means to model and form. So MTV will fight for its control over how we act, and I guess Andrew Bird will be fighting for the real culture that is slowly fading away. The question is why do we readily accept and go along with something like MTV when it will fight tooth and nail to control out habits? I’m glad that Andrew Bird is so reluctant to give into the “Man”. Culture comes from art, and art should be something that is purely between the artist(s) and the work. Sadly everything today is so manufactured and processed that rarely anything coming out of MTV is real art. Thus youth culture isn’t really culture anymore. Andrew Bird is amazing, I love this song. Not just for its lyrics, This song (Like every other Bird song) you could take out all the lyrics and the song as an instrumental would still be incredible. Flipping that his lyrics are poetic they easly could stand alone with out any instrumental.
I really think this is about the media, especially MTV. “This isn't your song, this isn't your music how can there be wrong, when by committee they choose it all” this is true. Songs on MTV only become popular once they are played on TRL 100000 times, there is no viewer control when it comes to TRL, or listen control when it comes to Viacom controlled radio stations. “Bearing signs on the avenue, for your own personal waterloo” Kids today are spending more time standing out side of TRL in New York screaming to get on TV then actually caring about real issues. “Precious Territory” culture, any sort of culture to MTV is something to conquer so they can make money off it. Then the part of “You’re gonna grow old, you’re going to grow cold” Youth is being wasted. Youth today is all about getting wasted and having expensive purses. MTV is teaching teenagers that such a shallow existence is normal, and acceptable. MTV isn’t evil, but if you let MTV live your youth, then you will be a very dull undeveloped adult. You wont have a personality or real interests. Lastly the lines “We’ll fight for your music halls and dying cities, and they’ll fight for your neural walls and plasticites.” Neural tube, being the tube in the womb that connects directly to the brain and plasticity means to model and form. So MTV will fight for its control over how we act, and I guess Andrew Bird will be fighting for the real culture that is slowly fading away. The question is why do we readily accept and go along with something like MTV when it will fight tooth and nail to control out habits? I’m glad that Andrew Bird is so reluctant to give into the “Man”. Culture comes from art, and art should be something that is purely between the artist(s) and the work. Sadly everything today is so manufactured and processed that rarely anything coming out of MTV is real art. Thus youth culture isn’t really culture anymore. Andrew Bird is amazing, I love this song. Not just for its lyrics, This song (Like every other Bird song) you could take out all the lyrics and the song as an instrumental would still be incredible. Flipping that his lyrics are poetic they easly could stand alone with out any instrumental.