| Deep Purple – Woman from Tokyo Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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The lyrics are also wrong in this post they miss out the 3rd verse which is: Rising from the neon gloom, shining like a crazy moon, yeah, she turns me on like a fire, I get high |
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| Deep Purple – Woman from Tokyo Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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It is about heroin which DP struggled with. Artists can’t sing about this directly so there are often allegorical references to women in songs which are actually about drugs. This is because ecstasy is associated with both sex and drugs. A lot of what is described sounds more like being on a trip than being in love - flying, seeing everyone smiling, dancing in an Eastern dream (Heroin is a drug associated with the east.), being carried away on a river and of course “I get high” which is the pinnacle of the song and screamed out. |
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| The Presidents of the United States of America – Peaches Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I joined this site having read 'the Marxist interpretation of peaches'. I would agree song lyrics are open to interpretation (personally, the song is about peaches), but there are some basic mistakes in this 'interpretation', currently the leading comment in this thread, that make it incoherent and suggest it need not be considered seriously. For instance: Marxism is not the same as communism or socialism, and socialism and communism are also very different from one another. No-one who was even vaguely informed about these topics would make them equivalent as they are done in this 'Marxist interpretation'. There is no mention of 'class', which is the indispensable construct in any Marxist interpretation of anything. If someone wanted to offer a Marxist interpretation of a song, their primary focus would not be lyrical *content*. Marxists (as literary critics) are more concerned with questions of *process* and the socio-historical conditions attendant to any phenomenon such as a song or work of art - relations of production and consumption within the 'culture industry' for instance. The lyrics themselves would be secondary considerations, the main interest is the conditions that gave rise to this particular song, at this particular time (and how it was received). A song, or poem, or book (from the Marxist view of history) is simply a product of socio-historical conditions, so Marxists do not devote much time to considering the intentions of the artist. What UnseenSoul is trying to do is impose a (very loose and ill formulated) vaguely leftist/revolutionary message onto a song and its writers. This is not 'Marxist Interpretation'. |
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