I find the EDM craze to be kind of interesting because it seems to be the exact opposite – well, at least the opposite of clean, maybe not of simple and boring. There have always been exceptions – David Bowie is a good one – but in this decade, at least, Clean, Simple, and Boring seems to be what the public really embraces.
In fact it’s rather cool, and extremely welcome in a world that’s drowned in auto-tune, whose popular vocalists generally piss me off because they seem to have been stripped of all originality by the big companies or maybe just by society, who seem to really like a certain kind of sound – which is, it appears, a rather clean, uninteresting sound, like for instance the notes that spring from Mariah Carey or the newest popular teen idol. And as I continue to listen to it, I still think it is, but it becomes less and less of a problem each time I hear it. When I heard Stolen Dance for the first time, it was on Much – the Canadian equivalent of MTV – and I didn’t like it because the verse seemed vaguely off-key. As stated above, he usually has his head in the sandbox behind his house entitled ‘Obscure Music of the 2000s.’ But I couldn’t resist climbing out of my comforting world of Aesop Rock and Neutral Milk Hotel to take a look at this song – so enough exposition, Jesus Christ! Let’s get to the thing. So, does the loner behind this blog that nobody reads usually listen to popular music? No. Doesn’t he only look at indie stuff?Ībandoning all pretense that I’m a stuck-up hipster who only listens to super-obscure Aesop Rock songs from the early 2000s, let’s dive in and take a look at a very curious little quirk-of-a-hit, Stolen Dance by the Man With Great Hair, apparently known officially as “Milky Chance.” I will never refer to him as such, however, because since seeing the video all I can think is Great Hair. ideally getting so blazed that he forgets about losing the woman he loves.īut all of that noted, there also appears to be a sentiment of probable redemption underlying it all. In other words, whereas the singer’s lover may be snubbing him at the moment, it doesn’t sound like he has completely thrown the possibility of reconciliation out the window.īut until then, his mind is totally not at peace. And evidently, as revealed in the pre-chorus, all of this has something to do with him being ‘jealous’, which in the context of the narrative we would presume is in relation to the prospect of his lady now dating other dudes.(Psst. Or even more accurately, “Colorado” appears to be a breakup tune. The singer is coming to grips with the fact that the relationship between him and the addressee has dissolved. And he is in his feelings accordingly, as it seems that he is the one more or less getting dumped. Indeed with all of that in mind, apparently the reason he is compelled to “get high” is in an attempt to “push away the sorrow”, i.e. all-good. And said addressee would be his significant other. So yes folks, once you get past the titular reference what we’re actually dealing with her is more akin to a love song. But that said, “Colorado” is not to be confused with an actual weed song. In fact outside of that aforementioned line the vocalist seems to make only one other reference to herb, via yet another metaphor where he speaks inaccurately being under the impression that the relationship between him and the addressee was “evergreen”, i.e.
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