You Wore Your ExPOLLtations Like An Armored Suit: REM's "Monster"

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"fuck me, kitten" and all that key-lock stuff wasn't about sex?

dorsalstop, Saturday, 7 September 2019 11:22 (four years ago) link

No. About kittens, duh

TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 7 September 2019 11:28 (four years ago) link

I've got my telescope head in the haystack
I'm getting tired of your dodgeball circus act
Put pepper in my coffee, I forgot to bark on command

I never thought of this as a direct song about sex at all?

All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Saturday, 7 September 2019 11:59 (four years ago) link

(Admittedly, I also never knew what most of those words were until now. Always thought of it as a hate/jealousy song, though, and that still mostly seems to work, looking over them.)

All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Saturday, 7 September 2019 12:01 (four years ago) link

yeah i'm with sund4r there... "telescope head in the haystack" like being on paranoid lookout, alert to everything, but also sifting through irrelevant info (needle in a haystack), or... something

Good morning, how are you, I'm (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 7 September 2019 13:15 (four years ago) link

lol, I always thought it was a cringey sex metaphor, but maybe that’s on me

(Also, mea culpa on “Star Me Kitten” – forgot about that one)

#YABASIC (morrisp), Saturday, 7 September 2019 15:05 (four years ago) link


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