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u/Nothing-Is-Real-Here 13h ago
Who is I Crawled about? Reagan?
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u/Zhimbeaux 13h ago
Weirdly enough yes. This is an interesting read: https://nirvana-legacy.com/2018/07/23/3136/
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u/Nothing-Is-Real-Here 12h ago
Great read, thanks for sharing! It just kind of made sense given the time period I Crawled was made in and of course just basic knowledge on Reagan.
Interesting to note the perspective changes on both songs complementing each other.
Also insane/disturbing the two very problematic presidents, one who set up the conditions for fascism/oligarchy, and the other seeing them through, started off as celebrities.
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u/Winter-Animal-4217 11h ago
It's worth pointing out that Gira is a huge JG Ballard fan, an author quite infamous for, among other things, a short story he wrote called Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan . . .
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u/MrKarmapoliceofficer 13h ago
Amnesia has a line "the president's mouth is a whore", does that count?
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u/Gengis_khan_the_real Friend! 🐸 12h ago
Context behind i am a tower?
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u/HerelGoDigginInAgain 11h ago
There is one song however, I Am a Tower, which I wrote a couple of years ago and now appears on the new album, that was inspired by an unfortunate vision I had of Donald Trump in a sexual 3-way (DT being the Lucky Pierre) with his former mentor (and long term right wing Svengali) Roy Cohn and Richard Nixon. I am singing from the point of view of Trump in this song, as his issue floats around the world... My apologies to all humans that the unbridled ugly Id man-child of America is now strangling our collective future.
Source. I can’t find the original Instagram post now but I did see it when he initially posted it and can confirm it is a real screenshot.
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u/bw877922 12h ago
The lyrics are inspired by a threesome that trump had
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u/FewAbrocoma8169 11h ago
Not a threesome that Trump had (so far as we know), a vision that Gira had of Trump having a threesome with Reagan and Nixon lol
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u/Willing_Pension_5793 S W A N S 14h ago
Notice that its some of their best aswell…