Sharing something that made me laugh about myself recently
I'm not exaggerating, I am this out of touch with pop culture and, apparently have been for quite some time. FB forced me to take notice and I had to laugh.
I actually believed there were bands called:
Stoned Temple Pirates
Food Fighters
I never cared for the style of music so I never really took enough interest to find out.I do think my version made things way more interesting, no? In my own defense wth is a Foo?
I actually get a chuckle each time I misused these names (maybe 2-3 times in 20 years) and no one bothered corrected me.LOL
Go figure. :)
I actually believed there were bands called:
Stoned Temple Pirates
Food Fighters
I never cared for the style of music so I never really took enough interest to find out.I do think my version made things way more interesting, no? In my own defense wth is a Foo?
I actually get a chuckle each time I misused these names (maybe 2-3 times in 20 years) and no one bothered corrected me.LOL
Go figure. :)
The term foo fighter was used by Allied aircraft pilots in World War II to describe various UFOs or mysterious aerial phenomena seen in the skies over both the European and Pacific theaters of operations.
Though "foo fighter" initially described a type of UFO reported and named by the U.S. 415th Night Fighter Squadron, the term was also commonly used to mean any UFO sighting from that period. Formally reported from November 1944 onwards, witnesses often assumed that the foo fighters were secret weapons employed by the enemy.
The youth version of pop culture is to create, wear and identify with ugliness. This has a great merit, it keeps the olds away.
I've always had a problem deciphering someone's speech when they speak fast, running their words together or just plain out and out mumbling. Many people say the correct word but do not enunciate the important letters, especially in song lyrics.
Examples: goin for a pizza cause nobody works. (just did a search and no such lyrics exists) Forget the band, TOO! laughing
"It's all about the face, no devil"...still don't know what she's singing...
I could go on but just know, I feel your pain...laughing
Looking it up as a kid the idea of smelling bowel inflammation grossed me out. Then again, I do think the song depicted evil no matter how appealing it sounded so, at least from my perspective, it was par for the course.
"It's all about the bass, no treble." :) My kids listened to that one.
And that was an erroneous translation, too, according to the band.
"from Eagles management honcho Irving Azoff: “In response to your [recent] memo, in 1976, during the writing of the song ‘Hotel California’ by Messrs. Henley and Frey, the word `colitas’ was translated for them by their Mexican-American road manager as ‘little buds.’ You have obviously already done the necessary extrapolation. "
That is, little buds refer to the tender aromatic intoxicating buds of marijuana.
giggle
I think many who enjoy it don't even know what the lyrics says.
It is a great depiction of what CA is about.
I still have no idea though how to interpret these lines:
"And in the master's chambers
They gathered for the feast
They stab it with their steely knives
But they just can't kill the beast "
Who is the "beast"?
In the 2013 documentary, History of the Eagles, Henley reiterated:
On just about every album we made, there was some kind of commentary on the music business, and on American culture in general. The hotel itself could be taken as a metaphor not only for the myth-making of Southern California, but for the myth-making that is the American Dream, because it is a fine line between the American Dream, and the American nightmare.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_C...
I was aware from the beginning of the philosophical aspect of the lyrics, it is obvious. Since I first heard it, I was totally hooked on it, for the melody and the guitar coda. Few songs invoke the same sentiments when you listen to it.
From Wiki: "The song has been described as being "all about American decadence and burnout, too much money, corruption, drugs and arrogance; too little humility and heart."
A perfect description of California. I would not apply it to the entire country, though. There are still enclaves of sanity and normal life. But California is probably lost.
And it turned...as a snake eating it's own tail. the vision lost. Law of unintended consequences. The elders I mention were a half generation up from the founders.....they remember the Why.
Hotel California....Soma, Soma, Soma......
I guess I have not become an insider in Cal culture yet...👿
When working on the big Yachts with a company that designed and build custom furniture we often took long trips to marina's far away. To amuse ourselves we often came up with funny versions of the various lyrics to songs...many miles of laughter passed the time on those trips.
I stopped making pop culture references in class after that.
As for the Stone Temple Pilots, I preferred it the first time... when it was called Pearl Jam.