"Riding through the city with a shotgun"
Scissor Sisters self-titled debut analyzed song for song by Rachel herself! Could it get anymore exciting?! Throw in a bottle of vodka and we're done for the night! Oh wait. I already seem to have the bottle of vodka. And it's empty. Moving on....
Here we go people. My take on the journey that is the Scissor Sisters...
1. Laura
"This will be the last time I ever do your hair."
Quite obviously this song starts off Jake's journey into the world of music. "Laura", if we look carefully at the liner notes (which I did *coughI'mnotalosercough*), is actually Jake's mommy! The song starts off with Jake asking Laura to spare him some time, he "needs to give [him]self one more chance to be the man that [he] knows he is." Which, quite obviously, is a flaming homosexual on a quest to success in a sassy band full of sassy glitter bombs. So Jake quits his job (hairdresser, of course), and takes off for stardom!
EDIT: Mmmkay, so I got mixed up when I first wrote this. Laura is not his mother; Freida is, who is mentioned in the second verse. So, to mesh my idea with Rob's, Laura is a girl that he tried to go straight for, but of course, couldn't. Rob and I met halfway on our ideas. Like a bisexual.
2. Take Your Mama
"It's a struggle, livin' like a good boy oughtta, in the summer, watching all the girls pass by. When you're mama, heard the way that you'd been talking, I tried to tell ya, that all she want to do is cry."
"Take Your Mama" is quite obviously about Jake's struggle with his sexuality and his parents' disapproval of his flamingly homosexual lifestyle and his new life, on the way to stardom! As a go-go dancer.
3. Comfortably Numb
"There is no pain, you are receding / A distant ship's smoke on the horizon / You are only coming through in waves / Your lips move, but I can't hear what you're saying / When I was a child, I had a fleeting glimpse / Out of the corner of my eye / I turned to look but it was gone / I cannot put my finger on / The children has grown, the dream has gone / Ah, ah, ah have become comfortably numb!"
Cover song. Jakey's hitting the drugs! But disco style!
4. Mary
"I'd give everything I have, forget all the things that bring me joy, if you could have one day of pure and simple happiness. Until that moment comes, I'll be here where I've always been, gonna be your friend until the day I die."
Mary is either a woman in love with a gay man (Jake) or a drag queen. Your choice.
5. Lovers in the Backseat
"We'll take you to a side street, in the shadows you can touch one another, and I'll just watch the show."
Sexual promiscuity. With a hint a voyeurism! Jakey's a slut! But a fabulous slut!
6. Tits on the Radio
"Where are the queers on the piers? Heard they gave it their best. Now they got jobs at a local fast-food chain, flipping tricks for the burgers since Lady M jacked their fame."
Exploitation of gay culture by certain celebrities. *cough*Lady M=Madonna*cough* I bet these guys are giant Boy George fans.
7. Filthy/Georgeous
"You gotta wrap your fuzzy in a big red bow, ain't no sum bitch gonna treat me like a hoe / I'm a classy honey kissy huggy lovey dovey ghetto princess! / Cuz you're filthy! Oooh, and I'm gorgeous! / You're disgusting! Oooh, and you're nasty / And you can grab me! oooh, cuz you're nasty!"
I don't think I need to explain this song. Dark side of the glitter.
8. Music is the Victim
"Hell, if Jesus has the power then so do I, to rise up from the dead and take up to the sky / I'm busting for the money, so I'll get by / If music is the victim then so am I / of your bad fun / Money's all gone but you need some / Lover's on the phone but they got none / Daddy ain't home from the dog run / And you're riding through the city with a shotgun."
So, this is where the whole music scene starts to eat Jake alive, like the little pink cotton ball that he is. But you haven't heard the last of him, oh no!
9. Better Luck
"Boxer's use their fists, hockey players break their wrists, you break my heart when you try to play nice."
(Cheesey lyrics of the century, people. But it doesn't belong on THE LIST because all Scissor Sisters songs are cheesey, but they have that rare skill of making the cheese wonderful.)
This is the obligatory personal/love-lost/filler song on the album. Next.
10. It Can't Come Quickly Enough
"We knew all the answers and we shouted them like anthems / Anxious and suspicious that God knew how much we cheated / It can't come quickly enough / And now you've spent your life waiting for this moment / And when you finally saw it come / It passed you by and left you so defeated."
It's children of the glitter scene all grown up! And left with that hollow "I'm not sure if can be a go-go dancer forever" feeling!
11. Return to Oz
"...their callous words reveal that they can no longer feel love or sex appeal, the patchwork girl has come to cinch the deal. To return to Oz, we fled the world with smiles and clenching jaws. Please help me friend from coming down, I've lost my place and now it can't be found."
This is where Jake's journey ends, with the tale of aging homosexuals and the struggle to fit into "the real world", or moreso, what society deems as normal. Of course, Jake just released his first CD, so I doubt he'll be returning to this world anytime soon. So good luck Jake! We love you!
Here we go people. My take on the journey that is the Scissor Sisters...
1. Laura
"This will be the last time I ever do your hair."
Quite obviously this song starts off Jake's journey into the world of music. "Laura", if we look carefully at the liner notes (which I did *coughI'mnotalosercough*), is actually Jake's mommy! The song starts off with Jake asking Laura to spare him some time, he "needs to give [him]self one more chance to be the man that [he] knows he is." Which, quite obviously, is a flaming homosexual on a quest to success in a sassy band full of sassy glitter bombs. So Jake quits his job (hairdresser, of course), and takes off for stardom!
EDIT: Mmmkay, so I got mixed up when I first wrote this. Laura is not his mother; Freida is, who is mentioned in the second verse. So, to mesh my idea with Rob's, Laura is a girl that he tried to go straight for, but of course, couldn't. Rob and I met halfway on our ideas. Like a bisexual.
2. Take Your Mama
"It's a struggle, livin' like a good boy oughtta, in the summer, watching all the girls pass by. When you're mama, heard the way that you'd been talking, I tried to tell ya, that all she want to do is cry."
"Take Your Mama" is quite obviously about Jake's struggle with his sexuality and his parents' disapproval of his flamingly homosexual lifestyle and his new life, on the way to stardom! As a go-go dancer.
3. Comfortably Numb
"There is no pain, you are receding / A distant ship's smoke on the horizon / You are only coming through in waves / Your lips move, but I can't hear what you're saying / When I was a child, I had a fleeting glimpse / Out of the corner of my eye / I turned to look but it was gone / I cannot put my finger on / The children has grown, the dream has gone / Ah, ah, ah have become comfortably numb!"
Cover song. Jakey's hitting the drugs! But disco style!
4. Mary
"I'd give everything I have, forget all the things that bring me joy, if you could have one day of pure and simple happiness. Until that moment comes, I'll be here where I've always been, gonna be your friend until the day I die."
Mary is either a woman in love with a gay man (Jake) or a drag queen. Your choice.
5. Lovers in the Backseat
"We'll take you to a side street, in the shadows you can touch one another, and I'll just watch the show."
Sexual promiscuity. With a hint a voyeurism! Jakey's a slut! But a fabulous slut!
6. Tits on the Radio
"Where are the queers on the piers? Heard they gave it their best. Now they got jobs at a local fast-food chain, flipping tricks for the burgers since Lady M jacked their fame."
Exploitation of gay culture by certain celebrities. *cough*Lady M=Madonna*cough* I bet these guys are giant Boy George fans.
7. Filthy/Georgeous
"You gotta wrap your fuzzy in a big red bow, ain't no sum bitch gonna treat me like a hoe / I'm a classy honey kissy huggy lovey dovey ghetto princess! / Cuz you're filthy! Oooh, and I'm gorgeous! / You're disgusting! Oooh, and you're nasty / And you can grab me! oooh, cuz you're nasty!"
I don't think I need to explain this song. Dark side of the glitter.
8. Music is the Victim
"Hell, if Jesus has the power then so do I, to rise up from the dead and take up to the sky / I'm busting for the money, so I'll get by / If music is the victim then so am I / of your bad fun / Money's all gone but you need some / Lover's on the phone but they got none / Daddy ain't home from the dog run / And you're riding through the city with a shotgun."
So, this is where the whole music scene starts to eat Jake alive, like the little pink cotton ball that he is. But you haven't heard the last of him, oh no!
9. Better Luck
"Boxer's use their fists, hockey players break their wrists, you break my heart when you try to play nice."
(Cheesey lyrics of the century, people. But it doesn't belong on THE LIST because all Scissor Sisters songs are cheesey, but they have that rare skill of making the cheese wonderful.)
This is the obligatory personal/love-lost/filler song on the album. Next.
10. It Can't Come Quickly Enough
"We knew all the answers and we shouted them like anthems / Anxious and suspicious that God knew how much we cheated / It can't come quickly enough / And now you've spent your life waiting for this moment / And when you finally saw it come / It passed you by and left you so defeated."
It's children of the glitter scene all grown up! And left with that hollow "I'm not sure if can be a go-go dancer forever" feeling!
11. Return to Oz
"...their callous words reveal that they can no longer feel love or sex appeal, the patchwork girl has come to cinch the deal. To return to Oz, we fled the world with smiles and clenching jaws. Please help me friend from coming down, I've lost my place and now it can't be found."
This is where Jake's journey ends, with the tale of aging homosexuals and the struggle to fit into "the real world", or moreso, what society deems as normal. Of course, Jake just released his first CD, so I doubt he'll be returning to this world anytime soon. So good luck Jake! We love you!