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  • RNAi [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Huh, I had no idea, what's the message of Hotel California?

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      • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        I had always taken the lyrics to be about a loss of innocence that comes with working in the California entertainment industry. It's all glamorous from the outside but within the residents have become deranged and exploitative.

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      • RNAi [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        WHAT?

        For fuck sakes there ain't no good boomer song

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      • kristina [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        Wtf I didn't interpret it that way at all lmao, I thought it was a funny joke about California having nice weather or something which made you not want to leave

        I'm too innocent

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          • ped_xing [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            That seems like a stretch. I highly doubt public mental health facilities have ever been synonymous with intoxicating opulence.

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              • ped_xing [he/him]
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                1 year ago

                Kicking a lot of mentally ill people out onto the streets was an atrocity, no argument from me there.

                I'm arguing that Hotel California being about mental hospitals doesn't make sense. There are so many lines that run counter to that interpretation:

                There she stood in the doorway

                The . . . intake nurse?

                Her mind is Tiffany-twisted/She got the Mercedes Benz

                Even if the staff can afford some luxuries, it doesn't seem like something they'd discuss with a patient.

                They livin' it up at the Hotel California

                Said nobody about an inpatient mental health facility ever

                Mirrors on the ceiling/The pink champagne on ice

                A hazard and contraband that would be immediately removed

                And the part that might work,

                You can check out any time you like/But you can never leave

                really only half works. The "never leave" part works, sure, it was involuntary hospitalization, but how can you explain "check out any time you like?" Letting patients fake a check-out just seems like torture.

                • TankieCatgirl [she/her, comrade/them]
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                  1 year ago

                  I always thought it was about drug addiction, specifically in the music industry, which lines up a bit more with the things you pointed out imo. And I heard that checking out was a euphemism for suicide.

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                  • Florist [none/use name]
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                    1 year ago

                    I don't see how he was being pendantic? He was just analyzing the song lyrics to point to another interpretation

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                      • TankieCatgirl [she/her, comrade/them]
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                        1 year ago

                        Or, he could be neurodivergent and tends to take things literally. Just because someone interprets something different than you (particularly something as subjective as song lyrics) doesn't mean you have to go straight to insults.

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                          • TankieCatgirl [she/her, comrade/them]
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                            1 year ago

                            I'm sorry if I came off as aggressive, it wasn't intended that way. I myself have been accused of being pedantic about things because of my autistic perspective, but I can agree that being pedantic isn't inherently a neurodivergent thing, I was just trying to give a different perspective. I do have to disagree that saying someone is being "reddit-level pedantic" is comparable to someone saying something doesn't make sense, though.