torsdag 26 Jun 2014, 13:45
Here's something I posted on songmeanings.com and I thought I cross post it here (not that anybody reads last.fm journals any longer)
Original post distopian dream girl on Songmeanings.com
I agree with Greensubmarine - excellent analysis. The narrator of the song is a solipsist.
But here’s a different angle, and I certainly could be mistaken here, but what if the narrator of the song is in a lucid dream?
A lucid dream is a dream where the dreamer realizes that it is a dream, and that they can do anything they want - most people decide to fly around; but you could choose to kill people, have sex with people, whatever. There are no consequences because it is a dream and you know it. Some people have the ability to dream lucidly much more easily than others.
Anyway - the song is called Dystopian DREAM Girl - so there’s a clue. Also - everybody, I mean everybody, is a solipsist when they are in a lucid dream. You know your consciousness is the only thing real in the dream.
The first part of the song is in the lucid dream, and in her dream her stepdad is David Bowie - in real life he probably looks nothing like him. Typical dream material, right?
In the second verse they awake. The man is alright, he states. The woman, who I suppose was the dreamer (the dystopian dream girl), reconsiders what she had done in her lucid dream, which probably involved killing her husband, and decides to “let you keep on living.”
Well - that’s a fun interpretation but the more I think about it the less it makes sense - but I’m going to post it here anyway.
Any ideas why the title is spelled distopian rather than dystopian?