I'm late to the dinner table, but i heard this for the first time last night (i rarely listen to the Radio in the car). I really liked it. I'm totally not in to rap music (with very few exceptions) but ir eally enjoyed this. I shall be sourcing it soon.
Flobots - Handlebars
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It's in most of my playlists.
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That doesn't suggest anything good to me, if it doesn't stand alone without visual aids it can't be a very decent song. And having just watched most of the video it still doesn't appeal any more than it did for the twentieth time of listening and wondering "what is this rubbish?".
Rap music?
Handlebars isnt really sung like standard songs. Its more spoken word. Kinda like a rap
i see why he got that impression from hearing it on the radio
I understand most of it is spoken, but that doesn't make it rap. See Shawn Mullins/Baz Luhrman for evidence.
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He does refer to himself as a famous rapper in the song, so he thinks he a rapper anyway.
It's not a particularly well written song, most of it is ok, but the main lyric about having no handlebars and the one at the end about hitting a target though a telescope just don't make sense. Having a very poor lyric right at the beginning an another right at the end kinda ruin the whole thing.
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[DOD]Asprilla;12613826 said:
You obviously don't understand the meaning.
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It's political science and a comment on the nature of the human condition for two year-olds so that teenagers and students can sit around thinking they now understand why the world is a 'bad place'. It 'really speaks to them' about military-industrial-complex that shapes our world for worse simply because it can and because it's in our nature whilst contrasting this against the innocence of the children we all once were.
Try listening to Radio 4 for insight, it's much better.
Anyway, that's not what my comment was about; I was just saying that those are two really badly written lines that are crowbarred in to keep the rhythm. I mean, who uses a telescope in the context they are talking about? They don't even allude to or show a telescope in the video, unlike all of the other references in the lyrics, so they know it's a weak lyric too.
It's a reasonable track for running to, but then as I discovered last weekend, so is Tiffany's 'I think we're alone now' so even that quality doesn't save it.
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