| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – O Children Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Once I look at it closely... it seems like a song about children in camps (concentration camps that is). I looked up gulag and that's what it means, the USSR's concentration camps. "The cleaners have done their job on you They're hip to it, man, they're in the groove They've hosed you down, you're good as new And they're lining up to inspect you" I don't know about Soviet Russia, but in Germany and other Nazi camps, children were used for experiments, they cleaned them and then "inspected them". Prisoners were sent in trains, and during this period of time children weren't told what was really going on... Everyone has their own interpretation though |
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| alt-J – Fitzpleasure Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I don't think it glorifies gang rape or rape for that matter. When I read more about Alt-J I found out that one of them is a Literature graduate. Fitzpleasure isn't the only song with references to novels. This was his way of reacting to the novel, specifically that chapter. It's just like Foster the People's "Pumped up Kicks" it such a happy sounding song but extremely dark and I doubt that it's glorifying murder, it's making you aware of what's or what could be going on in these kids' minds. There's also "Date Rape" by Sublime... People react to horrific acts differently. If they write a song (like alt-j does), a book (holocaust stories for example), make a painting (Fautrier's heads of hostage), and many other examples; doesn't mean they glorify it. |
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