Song Interpretations - Post a song, discuss the lyrics and what they mean to you

When I get home I'm going to have some choice, stern words for a few of you!

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I think Mr. Jones is his alter ego? This goes back to the balance of ambiguity that really is required for popular music lyrics to touch many people. I believe that this inner dialog (represented in these lyrics) is very common among musicians...

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I never paid very much attention to these lyrics, but listening to it as though Mr Jones is his alter ego makes it interesting. That's a good take on it.

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Will you post something by Billie Eilish that is good? I have listened to a little of her stuff and tried to watch her show on Netflix, but she seemed to be trying too hard to be a unique snowflake to me. Everything was sort of done to attact attention to herself, I quickly became turned off. Did I judge her too quickly? Maybe, I dunno. I didn't really feel like she was being genuine with people, more like she was pretending, but wanted people to think it was real.

Well, the song that I linked to. The James Bond theme that her and her brother wrote. It's a perfect James Bond them.

Extremely talented. They knew they had to have elements - a signature that everyone will know is a James Bond theme, but still be fresh and original.

So the intro chord changes on piano. Right away it gives that James Bond, melancholy/building tension vibe.

For two very young kids basically, this is amazing work.

They also made themselves write the song with the title of the movie as the title of the song, but also that it had to be SAID in the song. Not just a title, but the subject of the song.

You may not like her stuff. I think some of her stuff gets to much of the same mood, but she's only now 20 years old. I think she's a real artist. Someone who is authentic and not just putting stuff out that is flippant to her. She's real and honest from what I've seen.

Now, I'm not some huge fan of anyone really. I just think that I recognize special talent.

I think Taylor Swift is talented. Super talented, but I don't like her music.

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I agree with #7

I think the song is about Adam, the lead singer, and the bassist from his old band (Mr. Jones) wanting to be famous. Adam has said in interviews that he and his friend went to see his friend's dad's band who was fairly famous the night he wrote the song. At the show they saw an even more famous drummer who had like three girls all over him and that is the basis for the beginning of the song that many people have been trying to figure out. Furthermore, as others have noted, after the CC got famous from this song Adam changed the lyrics around during live performances to reflect how his views on fame had changed.

The most interesting stanza from the song, in my opinion, which no one seems to be focusing on is the one about painting pictures with different colors and how his favorite color is gray and if he knew Picasso he would buy himself a gray guitar and play. This is hugely intelligent because Picasso had a lot of different periods some of them like the Blue Period and the Rose (French for Pink) Period that were defined by his use of certain colors (which in tern reflected different moods.) Both the blue and the rose period reflected the moods that characterized Picasso's life at the time ((Hence, the line all of the colors are very very meaningful). Although Adam says gray, he seems to be referring to Picasso's Blue Period, which was when Picasso was depressed and his paintings very somber as expressed in color (Blue and Blue-Green but sort of Greyish) and subject matter (beggars and prostitutes and eldery people). One of his best known paintings from this time period is the old guitarist which is probably what Adam is referring to when he writes "If I knew Picasso I would buy myself a gray guitar and play," especially because the old guitarist is barely able to play in the painting. It's also notable that Picasso was Spanish and there are references to Spainish dancing in the beginning of the song, and barrio (Spanish for neighborhood) later in the song.

Nice.

I think everyone gets the Picasso reference. That's kind of a given, I believe. In actuality, the "gray guitar" part of the line always annoyed me. I'm kind of sarcastic at times - and the first thing that pops into my mind whenever I hear that is "why would you have to know Picasso in order to buy a gray guitar?" hahaha!

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The Radiohead Bond theme that got rejected was really good too...

I listen to it and I can honestly say that I believe they would have rejected that because of the vocals not being very legible.

It also takes too long to get anywhere in my opinion.

I could have just inserted it. lol

But I think this is very, very good

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I've got her album too and I like it because it's sort of ambient and relaxing. Maybe not ambient but I really like the vibe of that album but I got it I listen to it over and over again.

And mood ring is one of my favorites from the album