Red Mosquito

Buckle Up vs Brain of J

dang it. i really like buckle up but it aint no brain of j

Poor Buckle Up

Going Buckle Up this tourney. I'm back on another Gigaton kick.

Buckle Up

Can someone give me a good apologetic for Buckle Up? As far as Stone songs go, it seems to share a lot of DNA with Parachutes which I much prefer.

lvc wrote:Can someone give me a good apologetic for Buckle Up? As far as Stone songs go, it seems to share a lot of DNA with Parachutes which I much prefer.

it's always struck me as a song about passing a generational torch, and trying to process what it means when you are now the adult in the room, taking responsibility for your parents, recognizing that your relationships have inverted, and that for better or worse you now need to rely on yourself and just hope you are prepared. And the soap bubble playfulness of the music is meant to evoke a bittersweet regressive longing for the security of childhood where your life could be defined by play because security is a given. I think this is a more emotionally complex song than parachutes, actually.

stip wrote:

lvc wrote:Can someone give me a good apologetic for Buckle Up? As far as Stone songs go, it seems to share a lot of DNA with Parachutes which I much prefer.

it's always struck me as a song about passing a generational torch, and trying to process what it means when you are now the adult in the room, taking responsibility for your parents, recognizing that your relationships have inverted, and that for better or worse you now need to rely on yourself and just hope you are prepared. And the soap bubble playfulness of the music is meant to evoke a bittersweet regressive longing for the security of childhood where your life could be defined by play because security is a given. I think this is a more emotionally complex song than parachutes, actually.

Fantastic post

stip wrote:

lvc wrote:Can someone give me a good apologetic for Buckle Up? As far as Stone songs go, it seems to share a lot of DNA with Parachutes which I much prefer.

it's always struck me as a song about passing a generational torch, and trying to process what it means when you are now the adult in the room, taking responsibility for your parents, recognizing that your relationships have inverted, and that for better or worse you now need to rely on yourself and just hope you are prepared. And the soap bubble playfulness of the music is meant to evoke a bittersweet regressive longing for the security of childhood where your life could be defined by play because security is a given. I think this is a more emotionally complex song than parachutes, actually.

I appreciate posts like this because they help me appreciate the song.

It's not a song that has ever worked for me. Mostly because I didn't think the music and lyrics share any secret or deep or meaningful connection. To me, the song is and always will be a song about climate change. As such I find it pretty hamfisted and hokey.

I doubt Stone had any of stip's thoughts above in his mind when he wrote it. And that's totally okay. Art is subjective and open to interpretation. That's as it should be. Once the song is out there it belongs to everyone else. They can and should make of it what they want.

I choose to hear the song as stip describes because otherwise I'd probably never listen to it again.

i have never hears tbis as a climate change song. i need to listen from that perspective

Someone post the video!

I'm not 100% sure if this is the video you mean but it should be posted anyway:

stip wrote:i have never hears tbis as a climate change song.

Aren’t you an English professor?

wease wrote:

stip wrote:i have never hears tbis as a climate change song.

Aren’t you an English professor?

Poli Sci

But also a terrible typist under optimal circumstances, let alone my phone