- ♪ My father took me ♪
- I like that. - I can hear the Queen
influences on this one. - ♪ (rock intro) ♪ - (FBE) So today, we're gonna
have you read some lyrics from top songs
all by one current artist and have you tell us
the meaning and what you think, then you'll get to listen
to the songs you read and tell us your thoughts.
- Good. - Oh, I love this.
Okay, great. - Okay, let's do it.
I'm curious. - I love, love analyzing lyrics. - I like that.
You've introduced me to some great new artists. - "Well, I'll choose the life
I've taken, never mind the friends I'm making." - "And the beauty that
I'm faking let me live my life like this." It all rhymes. - Almost sounds like some
kind of wise guru talking. (laughs) - They're not being really
themselves, but this is the way they wanna be to be able
to survive and live the way they want to live, so yeah.
Fake it 'til you make it, I guess. - "Never mind the friends
I'm making." I guess may be a reference
to a lot of the artificial friends you make when you're successful. - "What will it take to show you
that it's not the life it seems? I'm not okay." - "I've told you time
and time again, you sing the words but don't
know what it means." Obviously, talking to someone that
is probably not getting them. - Some people look at him
and think "Oh, you should be happy. You got fame. You got money."
But inside you may not be happy. - "To be a joke, and look,
another line without a hook. I held you close as
we both shook." - "For the first time,
take a good hard look." Now that's the way Smokey
used to write, now. You know, rhymes. - The hook is what you remember.
That's what they put in a song, so "another line without a hook,"
so it's just something there. It's not even of any importance. - "I held you close
as we both shook." Is that sexual? - You're thinking of me as a joke?
I'm serious what's in my heart here. For the last time, why don't you
take a look at me and see who I am?
That's my interpretation. - So, they were close
and now they're not and he's telling her
take a last look, 'cause this is probably it.
It's over. - "When I was a young boy,
my father took me into the city to see
a marching band." - "He said 'Son, when you grow up,
would you be the savior of the broken, the beaten,
and the damned?'" That's beautiful. - That's a father taking his son
in tow, and trying to expose him to the world
and educate him and maybe inspire him. - Are you gonna be a leader
in the world? Are you gonna represent
those that need representation, that need a voice? - I'm just wondering if he
lived a life of privilege and maybe his father's
just telling him-- or just basically telling him
that, like Jesus being the savior, you know we have to take care
of the poor. - "Son, when you grow up
would you be the savior?" Meaning that he missed the boat.
That he was not the savior. - "We'll carry on.
We'll carry on. And thought you're dead and gone,
believe me. Your memory will carry on." - It's about someone losing
someone very close, a son perhaps.
That lyric comes very close to home. - This has to be a person
that has made an effect on their life, a positive one,
because you're not gonna remember someone you don't care about. - It's just the reassurance
that whatever your mission was to make a difference in the world,
that in your name, we will continue the fight. - "Your memory will carry on,"
so they're going to keep the tradition of what the father
or the grandfather was doing. - That's pretty sad.
So that's about losing someone and I would get kind of emotional
when I talk about it, 'cause being my age,
I've lost a lot of people in my life that I really love. - "'Oh let me tell you
'bout the sad man.' Shut up and let me see
your jazz hands." - "Remember when you were
a mad man. Thought you was Batman.
And hit the party with a gas can? Kiss me, you animal!"
Okay. Those are interesting lyrics. - That's the best kind of lyric.
When you can picture the lyric in your mind. - "Shut up and let me see
your jazz hands." Well, sometimes that means
just perform when you're not really feeling it. - When he says "Remember
when you were a mad man." maybe he's talking about
how this musician's life used to be,
how intense his life was. - A gas can.
I'm not sure about that. I don't know if that's
someone that is sniffing something to get high.
I don't know about the "kiss me."
I guess they're all excited about it, I don't know.
(laughs) Maybe it's a turn on. - "You run the company.
[bleep] like a Kennedy." - "I think we'd rather be burning
your information. Let's blow an artery.
Eat plastic surgery. Keep your apology.
Give us more detonation." (laughs)
Oh man, what is going through this guy's head? - "[bleep] like a Kennedy."
is you're powerful. You can take advantage of people
because you have power. - "Let's blow an artery."
Yeah, I can get that. Hey, let's live with gusto.
Get as many plastic surgeries as we want to. - Someone here's living
over the top or beyond what they can handle,
mentally or physically. - Just living life high on the hog,
really, just living it up and he's like "Keep your apology."
They're really not sorry that's the way they're living. - Lyrics are poetry and I may not
get the way this is presented, but obviously I did get something
from the lyrics. It definitely makes its point. - (FBE) Any idea whose lyrics
you've been reading? - I have no idea. - Not a clue. - Maybe somebody like Jay-Z? - (FBE) So, these were lyrics
to songs from My Chemical Romance's
repertoire. - What?
Never heard of them. - That's the name of them,
My Chemical Romance. Uh, well, okay. - (FBE) So, My Chemical Romance's
genre has been classified as alternative rock
or punk rock. - Right. - (FBE) Some have controversially
categorized the band as emo, but lead vocalist
Gerard Way hates that term calling it garbage.
He says the band is heavily influenced by Queen,
Iron Maiden, The Smiths, and many more.
- Wow. Well, I think they have
some great lyrics. - I'd have to hear the actual--
when I hear the music. When you're throwing Queen
out there, you better be good. - Okay, and I love Queen.
The lyrics were always very direct and interesting. - (FBE) Let's go ahead
and play you the songs you read. - Yeah, I'm really curious now. - ♪ Well I'll choose the life
I've taken ♪ ♪ Never mind the friends
I'm making ♪ ♪ and the beauty ♪
- Definitely rock. - ♪ Live my life like this ♪
- (laughs) Pretty wild. - Yeah, it's a little punkish,
the rock, for me. - It's not the kind of music
you want to get up and dance to. I'm not used to mosh pits. - I could see them out throwing
their hair around and bopping their heads,
you know, up and down. - Their lyrics get--
if they have a meaning, they get lost in all the
rancor and the ruckus of the music. - Comparing the lyrics
of some of-- that we just reviewed,
if it's presented in that type of music,
I would never pick up on it, never hear it. - ♪ What will it take to show you
that it's not the life it seems? ♪ ♪ I've told you time
and time again ♪ ♪ You sing the words ♪
- That's not as crazy. - ♪ What it means
to be a joke and look ♪ ♪ Another line without a hook
I held you close as we both shook ♪ ♪ For the last time
take a good hard look ♪ - I can understand those lyrics
much better. - They're definitely not for me.
And it wasn't written for me. - I bet some of these could
actually be a much better song if you put them down to just
a basic folk guitar, just a single artist
kind of thing. They may wanna try that sometime. - ♪ When I was a young boy ♪ ♪ My father took me into... ♪
- I like that. - ♪ ...The city
to see a marching band ♪ - I can hear the Queen influences
on this one. - You can turn that up
a little bit. Unless they're gonna change
up real quick and go into that ratatat thing in about two seconds. - ♪ And the damned ♪ ♪ We'll carry on ♪ ♪ We'll carry on ♪
- The beginning had such potential. - Now, they had a good thing going,
you know, you can pick it up a little bit, but you don't have to
go from zero to sixty in eight seconds. - I still like it. - I love the beginning.
That lyrical, sort of melancholy. - Of all them that you just played,
I like this one and I can hear it's more
the rock and roll that I have listened to. - This song actually is
not as heavy into it and I get a chance
hear the lyrics. - ♪ Oh let me tell you
'bout the sad man ♪ ♪ Shut up and let me
see your jazz hands ♪ - Yeah, more head banging. - I kinda like this one. - Very good workout song.
(laughs) - ♪ You run the company
(na na na na) ♪ - (singing along) Na, na, na. - This is interesting.
- ♪ Burning your information ♪ - Not something I'd ever listen to. - Yeah, it's not so bad.
I'm tapping my foot. You can't see it,
but I'm tapping my foot right now. - I like that "na na na" hook.
I like that (singing) na, na, na, na.
I like that. I like that one. - If there's poetry
or if there's a meaning in the lyrics,
that should take precedence and not rush through them
really quickly. - It's just too monotonous.
I don't like being screamed at in person, so I don't want
to be screamed at when I'm trying to relax
and listen to music. - Pretty interesting
and I could hear the influences like you
talked about some of the other groups of the past.
Yeah, are they doing really well? - (FBE) Yeah.
- Good. I could see why. - Thanks for watching this episode
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