So, last night I had a conversation with FernandoAlonso7 about how much I love the music of the band called The Offspring. I'm sure even if you aren't familiar with the name or their genre you've already heard Pretty Fly or one of their more popular songs.
Now, at this point I'd ask everyone who couldn't add anything else besides "How can you listen to this kind of sh!t? Grow up, kid!", to leave. Even as a huge Offspring fan, I do respect your opinion, so just move to the next topic, and leave me be. Thank you.
For those who stay, I want to tell you that after I've become infected, I started to catch a lot of things in their lyrics, just one or two lines per song I haven't paid much attention for in pre-LTROI times. But sometimes it's so hard to imagine that they were written by someone who hasn't seen the film. Although they were all released long before even the book came out, I can't help to feel that somehow they were inspired by the story.
A few examples:
Dammit, I Changed Again
Just check out the first two lines:
Hey, come inside
While I stand here acting bold
I think we all saw something like that, next one.
(Can't Get My) Head Around You
Every single day, what you say
Makes no sense to me
Letting you inside isn‘t right
(Cause) you‘ll mess with me
And that wouldn't be good. But letting you inside isn't right is definitely a nice choice of words.
And later in the some song:
All your feeding
Shows you‘re bleeding
I mean what the hell does that mean anyway? Maybe it's just because of my poor English, but I've never had any idea, what does he wants to say with those lines until I saw a certain film where someone was feeding and bleeding.
Amazed
The next one is depression at it's finest:
And when you know you can‘t relate
To one more shiny face
Your heart breaks
No one cares
And when you know you can‘t go on
Cause everything is wrong
Your heart breaks
But no one‘s there
I believe If Eli didn't return to make a Kubrickesque massacre at the poolhouse, Oskar would've end up as a half-eyed alcoholic punkrocker, who writes these kind of stuff all day long.
Dirty Magic
Hell, yeah, with this song we are there. Really. Read the whole lyrics at the link. Basic clichés from the early nineties, but I would swear any day that it was written by friggin' Håkan and is about Eli. Creepy.
And finally:
Me and My Old Lady
I don't like this song that much (although its bass intro sounds like it was fell down from a supernatural world above us), but I have to admit, during the "bli mig lite" scene, seeing the old-Eli face the first thing that came to my mind was this:
Me and my old lady
Suck each other dry
Of course during a vampire movie I wasn't thinking about that kind of sucking. Please don't kill me, guys.
