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I've made a video for "It's Not Your Birthday Anymore", using footage from Marie Antoinette (starring Kirsten Dunst):
thanks, i honestly didnt know that's what it was about. now i like it, like, 1oo times more. i mean, not that i like abuse and rape, lol, just the psychological aspect of it.Not sure what meaning you're trying to convey with this video, but the song to me is clearly about rape/an abusive relationship. The narrator taunts the birthday girl (or guy I suppose), mocking them for feeling loved/and or happy on their birthday, when they'll just go right back to being abused the next day. He treats her nicely for a day, because it's her birthday, but this doesn't change the way he'll treat her.
The lines "Your voice it might say 'no', but the heart has a will of its own" and "All the gifts that they gave can't compare in any way to the love I am now giving to you right here right now on the floor" to me strongly imply that the narrator is raping the birthday girl, but excusing his actions as gestures of "love".
It took me a while to realize the meaning of this song, and now I find it very uncomfortable to listen to...
I second that,that would be an interesting read.maybe I'm thick but I don't get that at all.who knows what mozz is portraying,i would love a book where Morrissey takes every song and reveals his reasoning behind it.
i wouldn't. i prefer my own response to an author's "intended meaning".
I second that,that would be an interesting read.
That's a little harsh.Why did you do that?
It's shit.
who is "he" if i may ask?
i think we agree that it's definetely NOT morrissey. we both know, you and i, that the author is NOT the narrative voice. this is called art.
the question is "who speaks?"
"Your voice might say no... it cannot be given, and so it must be taken" etc. It's always seemed to be fairly clear to me that it was about someone being raped - obviously everything is pen to interpretation, and secondary meanings, but I'm frankly surprised what seems to me the most obvious reading hasn't even been noticed by some people.