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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 Fake Plastic Trees (page 1/ 11) ------ performed by Radiohead I think. | Reviewer: loopi | 11/10/09 to me this song it's like something that has hapenned to me. is like when you met a person, and you start having a relationship with this person, but it isn't a real relationship.. what i mean is that deep inside your heart you know he feels something stronger for another persona and you too.. so the relationship doens't even have a name.. but you are always with this person.. he takes your hand, he kiss you, he even make you feel safe.. they look like the real thing.. and believe me.. he tastes like the real thing.. but the truth was that even if i started falling in love with him ... i would never be who he wanted all time.. maybe at nights.. when we see each other and we like each other.. but never all time.. and the feeling is soooo .. frustrating you can't help it... and you think. "if i could just turn and run.. " .. and leave behind all this sick strange story.. but you can't.. because it's fake but it's your.. and it's plastic but it's LOVE.. and it wears me out! sorry my english it's not so good, i'm from chile. One of the best songs ever! | Reviewer: Marcelo | 10/30/09 This song is al about how fake our society is becoming. Even artists are not authentic anymore, they just do what others say to make money. Society is becoming a jungle with everyone making their own rules based on pure marketing through tv, internet, music and so on. So back to the verses. At the first tom sings very smoothly, the girl knows that the plastic tree is fake, but she lives in a town that is full of fakeness. She stars a relationship to forget bad times, she's beeing used but for her is not her fault. She lives with a broken man who's probably her father, cracked is about his concept of life, gerneration gap, that is not valid for the time anymore (crambles and burns). Used to do surgeries is double meaning, plastic surgery in the 80s and also a trying to put moral and values on his daughter and friends but (gravity) tendency of the artificial world always wins and take over her father's ideas as he became used too. Now he sings angry because he's in love with her but and is scared that the same thing is happening to him. He tries to justify his thoughs (looks like real thing, tastes like real thing). But he can't deny and can't stand the pain of realizing it is all becoming fake. In the end he regrets that he was being used by the system too and still is. And the whole time he just did the same thing she was doing. But now he sees how ugly and empty he became. So he knows now that ALL the relationship was fake. So it never grew up, as fake pastic trees can't grow. He suplicates her trying to find something real between them. He finds out that what he wated was to be loved by her. When he sings in the last verse: "All the time" twice he's admiting he had just been an actor. But here in the last verse for the first time, he tells her the truth (the real thing). This song is so f..... depressive, but also so down to earth. [ ]s Simple | Reviewer: C.D. Wilson | 9/28/09 This song is about how false the delusions we build up as walls around us really are, especially love. Reviewers are making it too complicated and it is losing its impact. Ambiguity people.it is good. The plastic surgery is just an example of a physical way that the "women in the 80's" captured the delusion of youth (it too eventually gave way to gravity) who is more aware | Reviewer: tyler | 9/14/09 This song is all about how unaware people really are. The best explination as to why most people who hear it think its beautiful it touches on a concept most people can't live up to. As a whole people have over the relativly short period of time become superficial. Superficiality is something that is would generally be expected when we blend our natural instinct with the technology we have created. This song is amazing because it talks of something that deep down everyone wants and that's being who they are supposed to be not what other people expect them to be. The truth about people is that we are animals locked inside of cages we designed our selves or that were designed by those who raised us. Sometimes it takes the people who shaped us revealing their regrets in life to show how we should live our own lives. Live free, fall hard for love and let go of the things that are not wanted. The real kicker is that people have a high awareness of the morality of a decision, But will ignore it to better themselves. A dog has a very low sense of morality yet that exact fact makes it more moral then most humans because it has a reason, while people haven't any. Requiem for the lost reality | Reviewer: Robert | 8/18/09 Fake Plastic Trees, is so achingly sad because it focuses on an aspect of ourselves that is very difficult to grasp simply because it is so achingly sad. It is essentially a Lacanian/post-modern lament for our lost selves. We live in a symbloic world, as the entry into language has buried our core essence beyond where we can reach it. Everything in our world is fake, we have symbolised everything; when we name something it becomes the name we have given it rather than what it actually is. All our concepts are symbols, no feelings we have can escape social expectation; based around everything that has been said about it in the past. The song itself neccesarily personalises this Lacanian 'concept' of lost human essence, focusing on the speaker and two 'Others' to highlight the nightmare of lost selves. If this seems a bleak view of life, then maybe that explains Thom Yorke's disposition. Apparently | Reviewer: Ady | 8/4/09 Thorm York said on some interview that Fake Plastic Trees was about a remote area of the docks in the "isle of dog" where they where building "Canary Wharf" and they planted loads of trees around the wasteland. A heart-breaking reality | Reviewer: Anonymous | 7/28/09 Fake Plastic Trees to me is about a person who is in the fake plastic world and he doesn't know how to tell the girl he loves that it wears him out by trying to be something he is not. The girl is being fake and worrying about everyone around her and everything. Fake Plastic Rubber plants and Plans, its like she is living for fake things. "She lives with a broken man" Is saying she has gotten married or is living with some guy and he is broken inside and depressed, he doesn't know how to handle it and he can't deal with anything because of the saying the line "Crumbles and Burns" He must be cracked and burns because of what happened or happens. And the line "My Fake Plastic Love" he is talking about the girl and he wants to be himself but they all can't because everyone is so superficial he becomes one of them and cannot show his love to her and cannot be himself around her because of the fake world we live in. And line "I wish I could be the one you wanted" instead of that crumbled and burnt man I think that he means he wants to be the one for her instead of the other superficials. This is truly a master peice and a heart breaking song. It really comes down to how that the people in this world aren't what they seem to be because of the way we all live and how everyone is fake. He probably feels like things are plastic because there are so many people really wanting to be something else rather than themselves. Its like the story In To The Wild he just wants to be on his own because of all the fake plastic things. A heartbreaking song and story, truly a heart touching Song. Amazing. Plastic Tatt | Reviewer: Dale | 7/17/09 I reckon he works in a local pound shop and sees the same girl coming in week in week out spending her gyro on cheap tatt instead of going next door where you can get real quality merchandise at suprisingly reasonable prices. Regret | Reviewer: Surindra Goolcharan | 5/14/09 My take is that this is a song about regret in this man's life. Back long yonder there was a young girl, shown with fake plastic toys. He had a strong love for her. He calls it "Fake Plastic Love", but by fake, he means very real, shown through the emotion in the third verse. Back then, he was unable to express it. He says "I could blow through the ceiling If I just turn and run." A rich man then married the girl, before the speaker's emotions were expressed to the girl. It is shown he is rich via: "He used to do surgery For girls in the eighties But gravity always wins" which is a reference to breast implants. It plagues him today shown by: "And it wears me out, it wears me out. It wears me out, it wears me out." this excerpt is give further power since Radiohead songs never make self-references. It has a very debilitating effect on him, and he reiterates his feelings of strong regret: "if I could be who you wanted If I could be who you wanted" This is my take. Beating around the bush | Reviewer: AN | 4/29/09 The entire point of the song exists only in meta-narrative, which is that he can't bring himself to drop the mask that he uses to communicate with the unnamed "you". The first verse is about artificial things, and it allows him to move toward the topic, but the entire verse is just a façade, because he's hiding behind taking about fake plants instead of talking about anything important. He couldn't care less about the stupid plant, it's merely absurd. Likewise the rubber man and town. Absurd, but intentionally cliched. the evolving refrain is about the emotional cost of not being able to drop the artifice and be real, but she's using the woman, then the man merely as proxies for himself. In the second verse, he moves to artificial people, fake breasts and such. By moving from inanimate objects to people, he has dropped a layer of artifice, but it has simply revealed a new layer underneath -- the man, the implants -- none of that is remotely the point, just extending the theme of presenting a false front to others. The song kicks into gear after the second refrain because it has moved from being abstract to being raw and emotional. The swell of string, the force in his voice, he's getting closer. But the third verse is another mask as well. By using his "fake plastic love" as yet another proxy, he gives himself another example -- and it's close, because it's about people presenting false fronts to each other, but he still hasn't dropped the last mask. In the third refrain, it's finally him that it wears out, not his "love," but it's not because she is being false, it's because he is. Finally, at the very end, he's able to allude to what he's trying to say, with "if I could be who you wanted / all the time" -- that's why this section is sung with so much raw emotional pain that it's hard to listen to. But even then, he can't bring himself to say it. If he could be who the object wanted all the time, then what? He never spells it out, because he can't, that's the point of the song. If he could be who they wanted, then he could actually stop pretending, drop all the masks, and simply say what he feels. But he simply can't, so all he can do is hint at it. And the pretending is destroying him, i.e. wearing him out. Absolutely my favorite song of all time, a heartbreaking masterpiece. Add Your New Review About The Song By Pages:   1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10   Next 10 Pages