[MUSIC] Ladytron, "Ghosts"
Feb. 16th, 2012 10:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldLadytron is one of my favourite bands, a British electronic pop group with sophisticated arrangements and cynical lyrics anchored by Helen Marnie's almost sung-spoken vocals. It's one of my favorite bands, but I'd dropped out of touch with the band a bit when I heard the song "Ghosts", the first single off of their 2008 album Velocifero, played at the Eagle one night week before last.
It's a catchy song indeed, with a certain menacing electronic swing and twang that makes the U.S. Western setting of the video that much more apropos. And the sour lyrics almost sung-spoken by Helen Marnie, as discussed at songmeanings.net, are transparent enough in meaning.
Why play a song that tells of such an ultimately self-defeating relationship with a pitiless other at a bar? Perhaps it's the allure of danger that worked in the song's favour.
It's a catchy song indeed, with a certain menacing electronic swing and twang that makes the U.S. Western setting of the video that much more apropos. And the sour lyrics almost sung-spoken by Helen Marnie, as discussed at songmeanings.net, are transparent enough in meaning.
In the first days of the spring time
made you a prince with a thousand enemies
made a trail of, a thousand tears
made you prisoner inside your own frequency
There's a ghost in me
who wants to say "I'm sorry"
Doesn't mean I'm sorry
At the first hour of the springtime
made you up and split from one thousand enemies
now I see you from the corner
clock strikes
and I know you will be drinking alone
There's a ghost in me
who wants to say "I'm sorry"
Doesn't mean I'm sorry.
Why play a song that tells of such an ultimately self-defeating relationship with a pitiless other at a bar? Perhaps it's the allure of danger that worked in the song's favour.
