OK I can see this thread going a little incy wincy bit into the relmes of whatthehellisthethreadaboutment
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Onr thing i've always liked about art (especially music), is that you take out what you put in.
OK, the artist might have a vision, and write a very particular image or subject.
But take that out of it's context and it's free game.
You can interprate the song however the hell you want.
OK, this comes from Batman, but Batman doesn't actually exist, it never happened, so it's not BOUND to be stuck with the same meaning.
The Pig Vs. Pigs thing.
I prefare PigS.
I know Pig can be plaural, but the "S" takes away the uncertainty of the meaning.
To me it's a song of how the few control the many. Land of PIG, BUTCHER is king, sounds a little too one on one.The S really emphisises the masses to me much more than "Pig" which if taken as plaural, still doesn't convey the MASSES of pigs.Pig sounds like two or three pigs instead of thousands of the things.
About the veggie convo, hay we're all allowed our opinions, but please try not to turn the subject into a convo on the morals of eating meat.
I used to like the song "Where The Wild Roses Grow" by Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue (SO shameful I have a Kylie single at home, it's a guilty pleasure
) but that doesn't mean I endorce taking your main squeeze out to a river bank and giving her a tap on the noggin with a bloody big rock.
The song is a metophore.The term Butchers and Pigs are used to show how much contept the Few (who are singing the song) to the masses.
It's not a song saying, hey i'm hungry, let's go waste some animals.
It's a fat cat song.
Especially the words "the chosen ones", because they DO feel chosen.They believe themselves to be special and above mans law, because they pretty much are.
It is only those people who really matter, we are all pigs that they will slaughter with all the emotion of a butcher if it serves their purpose.
The squeeling doesn't bother me at all.
Tell me that Desmond Child put on his wellies, went to the slaughterhouse with a tape recorder to tape the sound of pigs being killed, and i'll think that's pretty nasty, but pigs do tend to squeel.It's what they do
