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By Pages:   1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10   Next 10 Pages Add Your New Review About The Song The Reviews about White Rabbit (page 4/ 28) ------ performed by Jefferson Airplane Love it | Reviewer: Kelsey | 5/7/09 I Just love this song, I listen to it at least once or three times a day. I first heard the song about a few months ago at my boyfriend's house and it still hasn't gotten old to me. AND I LOVE ALICE IN WONDERLAND!!! I can't wait for the Tim Burton movie to come out Clearing Up | Reviewer: Coreen | 4/15/09 About the book "Go Ask Alice" - This is a very powerful book, based on the real experiences of a teenage girl so isolated from those around her she can only talk to her diary. When Alice finds a group of friends who accept her she also finds drugs, which become her only escape from an increasingly unbearable reality: 'Nothingness', she writes, 'is a lot better than somethingness.' This is a very mature and lucid account of her experiences, far from being just a stream of consciousness. Alice has a strong command of language. The passages where she describes the effects of drugs on her body and mind are vivid and frightening, but at the same time they show quite graphically the seductive nature of drugs. The psychiatrist's report at the end on Alice and her situation balances the more intimate, personal style. Exactly how real the story is is still in doubt - it is so well written and the horrors so graphic that it reads more like a brilliant work of fiction. But however true or imaginary, this is a harsh, disturbing account of the effects of alienation. About the Song: This was written by Grace Slick, who based the lyrics on Lewis Carroll's book Alice In Wonderland. Like many young musicians in San Francisco, Slick did a lot of drugs. She saw lots of drug references in Carroll's book, including the pills, the smoking caterpillar, the mushroom, and lots of other images that are generally trippy. She noticed that lots of children's' stories involve a substance of some kind that alters reality, and felt it was time to write a song about it.Slick got the idea for this after taking LSD and spending hours listening to the Miles Davis album Sketches Of Spain. The Spanish beat she came up with was also influenced by Ravel's "Bolero." Alice | Reviewer: Anonymous | 3/29/09 Actually i did some research and this song is actually about Alice in wonderland i watched some videos and they diffinitly had alice and the white rabbit who was always late and in the movie theres the smokin hooka caterpillar it all makes sense but its still saying that alice got all stoned and high and Jefferson Airplane even said that he thanked Johny Depp "fear in los and la vegas" or how ever you spell it .. but yah that just says it cuz that movie was all about drugs lol Go Ask Alice | Reviewer: Anonymous | 3/29/09 Its obvious that this song is about drugs, and i deffinitly think that this song goes with the book go Ask Alice.. but I also think that Alice and Wonderland is a trippy movie to watch and i think a lot of people when they see it especialy when your high think its trippy, so it could be for both in a way. but yah Im reading the book right now and ive heard the song and i thought of the book right away, it makes more sence. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Reviewer: Kate | 3/24/09 Have any of you actually read the book by Lewis Carrol? The song was only inspired by Alice in Wonderland. The only one on here who has any insight is the anonymous reviewer who titled his piece, "We were all 'Through the Looking Glass'". Quit looking for an exact and true message and decide what the song means to you. Right, so you wannnt to know the truth? | Reviewer: twat | 3/11/09 for those of you who are clueless! The book was written before the goddamn song you muppets! It was Lewis Carrol who wrote the book, in the Victorian era, this song was in the 60's. There is no actual evidence to say that the book itself is about drugs, though the references speak for themselves, no I doubt he was warning kids off drugs, because at that time- youngsters would simply not be doing drugs, it was for the rich. let it be | Reviewer: ryan | 3/11/09 whatever the meaning is, why can't you people let it be that people will think different things about it. To come on here and say wrong wrong wrong im right im 8 years old.. it's bullshit.. just chill white rabbit | Reviewer: pam sweet | 2/19/09 I'm reading some of the ideas behind White Rabbit, Grace Slick wrote it because of the hypocrisy about teens doing drugs,and here is this book that millions of parents are reading their kids, with Alice and the gang doing drugs. We were all "Through the Looking Glass". | Reviewer: Anonymous | 2/8/09 The 60s were a completely unique time. There had never been a time like it in America, except during the Civil War perhaps, and most likely there never will be again. It's almost irrelevant what the song meant to its author or the artists who sung it. What you heard was guided by where you were at. Where you were at mentally, physically, geographically, educationally, socially, politicly, spiritually, etc. I was in Vietnam when I first heard it. To me it was about chaos. The chaos of a country at war that I saw everyday. The chaos created by a political system that had sent me there. The chaos within a military that could no longer avoid realizing it had been sent on a fools errand. The chaos inherent in the burgeoning peace movement. The chaos that later expressed itself at Woodstock and later still during the Nixon administration. We were all through the looking glass. Up was down, yesterday was tomorrow, big was small, white was black, right was left, dark was light. It was all alternately frightening, exhilarating, numbing, and enlightening. Let the song be. Hear whatever you hear. Some kind of mushroom | Reviewer: GoAskMe | 1/26/09 Yepp,its fully about the famous tale: Alice in wonderland. with between-the-lines lyrics about drug consuming. Fully supporting the "mushroom", and other little things... I love this song, but hate its message, and the impression it, and other songs made to the youth around the world.. Still nice music tough. Add Your New Review About The Song By Pages:   1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10   Next 10 Pages