User talk:Phoenix Song

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Happy editing! --May the Force be with you! Shreshth91 ($ |-| r 3 $ |-| t |-|)  14:40, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

Coming to town with the briefcase blues
Hey there, Phoenix! I see that you wrote on the page for Devils Haircut your doubting that the song was about snorting inhalants. Well, you're totally right to doubt that! Despite the creativity of his lyrics, Beck is known not for being a proponent on this War on Drugs crap, but being thoroughly against him himself using them. Here's a good article about his personal experience with drugs1]. In it, he says:

The LOSER star, 34, has always resisted drugs since the narcotic-induced deaths of several loved ones... "I see whatever talent or life that's there being slowly burned away. I grew up in an area where the effects of drugs, especially crack, were tragic and brutal, so any kind of romance associated with that was annihilated for me at a very early age"

You expressed your desire for someone to give some form of analysis of the song. In the mouth of Beck, it's about the mutated ideals of modern society, vanity and commercialism, but it also has many references to the strange disorientation of being on tour. I have expanded the article and discussed its meaning (with references to Beck's comments on it) as well as its musical backdrop, B-sides and the like, as part of my Beck project, to make a thorough discussion of every single of Beck's, along with important non-singles... I find it absolutely horrid that the latest release from whatever vacuous pop artists get huge pages for whatever meaningless tripe they come up with, whereas Beck, whose every song is so full of imagery and open to commentary, barely gets above a stub. This is my attempt to remedy it.

My very best wishes, It's-is-not-a-genitive/talk 14:19 UTC, 6 May 2007

G'day, Phoenix Song I've left some notes for you on the Ned Kelly site. Regards. Tonyob (talk) 11:22, 16 August 2008 (UTC)