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Masses against the Classes - who is it aimed at?
I've always wondered this - as I've heard it's about the music press who turned against them after This is My Truth, or that it's aimed at the Oasis loving new fans that started following them in the late nineties. Can anyone shed any light?
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its not a very coherant song....
james said it sounded like they had tourettes...... its a mixture of a lot of things.... title is from Gladstone music is sort of noisy and messy the outro quote by Chomsky has little to do with the lyrics or title the cover is an altered cuban flag and the lyrics themselves are just the manics trying to reclaim the anger they once had ,or more specifically reafirming a polemic or something similar. i think they might be aimed at the people who basked in their glory and success, the passive ford mondeo crowd who bought their number 1 album, or maybe the media who courted them when they made music that was quite serene. Last edited by user3837; 21-10-2007 at 23:27. |
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I've never understood what the lyrics or the title are supposed to mean.
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they released it straight after the millenium gig, then disappeared until the following yr with know your enemy |
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The press, the fans, themselves!Its like a link back to You Love Us, in that way.Its one of their last great singles really.
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That's very true - whenever I hear it, it always makes me think of You Love Us.
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Spot on Bill.
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I've always thought of it as an "up yours" to the critics..... it's a great anthem cos everyone has a time when they look back and think "despite everything, i made it and no thanks to you"
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I always saw it as a You Love Us mk II, a kind of call to arms to fans and a two fingered salute to critics. shoving This Is My Truth and to a lesser extent Everything Must Go under the carpet and reaching for something musically less "safe" and lyrically harder and a bit more confrontational.
this feeling was continued with Know Your Enemy, which critics and for some reason most fans seem to despise
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I doubt if it means anything, it's their worst ever single. Think they just wanted a single to go with their Millenium gig so threw a few lines together.
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oh fucking hell, someone kill me now.
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its not that great, chill out
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I love Masses. Fab song!
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"We love the winter, it brings us closer together".
Possibly a theme Nicky developed later on in Winterlovers. As for the rest of it, on the surface it appears like a political song but doesn't really stand up to in-depth scrutiny. Maybe the 'Masses' represent people buying their music with the 'Classes' being the music press.
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