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05-09-2007, 03:54 PM | #1 |
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Have you ever listened to a song
for a long time and had no idea what the lyrics said or meant? The discovery of the meaning is sometimes satisfying, other times disappointing.
Today I figured out that Mr. Roboto by Styx was really just about a stupid robot, not, as I was led to believe, a devil-worshiping song. Kind of anti-climatic. |
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05-09-2007, 04:04 PM | #3 |
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Isn't all heavy metal about devil worship?
Some of my childhood memories include dramatic incidents of my friends telling me about KISS being an acronym for Knights In Satan's Service, WASP standing for We Are Satan's People, and the song Mr. Roboto containing subliminal lyrics commanding people to worship Satan. For a while it seemed as if devil worshipping was quite popular in the music community. |
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On your original topic, I firmly belive that R Kelly's I believe I can fly is what happens when a writer's only goal is to string together words that rhyme. Quote:
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You're buying that explanation? The heroin story makes much more sense.
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I buy it. While very hairy (but who wasn't in the 70s?) America is actually a pretty strait-laced trio. The one guy whose name I can't recall quit the band becasue the RnR lifestyle was not consistent with his religious principles (you see, he wanted to dominate the world .. .sorry, worng thread) and all three were military brats who got togehter at an air force base outside of London. Other than the fact that Horse was used by others to mean Heroin back then, there is nothing I have read or learned that makes me think this soing is about drugs any more than, oh, say Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, for example. ;-)
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