theplatypus wrote:I like the lyrics except for "I'm in love with clairvoyants 'cause they're out of this world," but even a line that unspeakably stupid sounds like it fits with this song's kookiness
it is a miracle that that lyric didn't destroy the song for me. It's terrible. But it somehow skates by. The clairvoyants lyric later on works much better
is this their biggest surprise since "who you are"? "the fixer" was a bad surprise, "nothing as it seems" was a different but not this different. am I missing anything? this seems like the biggest left turn since No Code.
McParadigm wrote:Ed: “I’ll write a line about how male culture is built on a need to exhibit control, and how in a world of limitless awe they’re busy obsessing about their dicks.”
RM: “ha ha dicks you guys it says dicks it says dickssssss”
There is clearly some gender politics at work in this song, but it's a few steps removed from the conclusion it wants you to reach. You have to work for it (that is not a critique)
warehouse wrote:is this their biggest surprise since "who you are"? "the fixer" was a bad surprise, "nothing as it seems" was a different but not this different. am I missing anything? this seems like the biggest left turn since No Code.
Definitely. The difference is I didn't want Who You Are when it came out. I was ready for DotC!
Does this sound like any particular Talking Heads song or just like TH in general? Not super familiar with them outside the hits so I don't really hear it.
McParadigm wrote:Ed: “I’ll write a line about how male culture is built on a need to exhibit control, and how in a world of limitless awe they’re busy obsessing about their dicks.”
RM: “ha ha dicks you guys it says dicks it says dickssssss”
Simmer down Pop-Pop, literally one person said that
Anders wrote:I do not have a «neoliberal assessment of geopolitics», so please stop writing that I do.
ghost wrote:Does this sound like any particular Talking Heads song or just like TH in general? Not super familiar with them outside the hits so I don't really hear it.
Ed's voice inflection and delivery in the first two verses is very similar in style to David Byrne's delivery on a number of TH songs. You can hear it to some degree on the most well known like Psycho Killer or Once In A Lifetime.
Ok, Im going to bed. I think I've listened to it at least 20 times today.
Now on my second listen through good studio headphones....and OH MY......handclaps, percussion, layered synths, acoustic guitars and even more buried vocal harmonies in both the chorus and outro...
