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By Pages:   1    2    3    Add Your New Review About The Song The Reviews about Half Jack (page 1/ 3) ------ performed by The Dresden Dolls Halfjack | Reviewer: Liz | 11/10/2008 I've read a lot of reviews of this song. I think all the interpretations are plausible. Maybe Amanda and Brian meant it that way. People tend to see their own situations in music. For me, I saw a bad father-daughter relationship because that is what I am familiar with. I can see how it might mean different things to different people, but it's up to individuals to find their personal connection in the lyrics. Father, I suppose. | Reviewer: Anonymous | 11/8/2008 Originally I thought it was about a woman discovering her sexuality, but now that I read the other reviews, the father idea does make sense. "and i'm so high not even you and all your love could bring me down" Love is normally a wonderful feeling, but in this line she acts like its bad. Makes me think that by love, she means sexual abuse. Half Jack | Reviewer: daikiraikimi | 11/7/2008 I think it's definitely about an intersexed person. (A hermaphrodite- Someone with ambiguous sex organs.) The Jack is the male part and Jill is the female part. The parts about corrective surgery refer to the surgery that intersexual people are given at birth to try to make them male or female so they can fit into society, but it usually just makes things worse hence the 'gone wrong' part. The pills, I think, are the hormone pills that I.S. people are given throughout their lives from the time they are born so that they develop as their chosen gender. (I.S. people generally have too little hormones that causes many physical problems such as weak bones and a loss of stamina etc.) As for the part about a bad relationship with the parents/father, that also fits in with intersexuality because many I.S. children are abused and ignored by their family out of shame for what they are. Additions | Reviewer: Anonymous | 10/13/2008 I originally didn't like this song, but Its the sort that really grows on you. As a gender-queer person, I really liked the idea of this song being about confusion about the masculinity and femininity of the artist's soul, since there are so few artists who talk about those issues, but I recognize that it isn't so. The song is clearly about her issue about being half her father (given that a child is the chromosomes of half father half mother) A few additions however. The line "a fraction's left up to dispute" implies possibly that she wishes or believes that her mother cheated on her father and she isn't really like him. And also, the line "i see my mother in my face but only when i travel" implies that her mother was a runaway (in the adult maternal relationship sense rather than the childish sense.), hence she only sees the similarities between her mother and herself when she is on the move. Wow... | Reviewer: Anonymous | 10/5/2008 I always thought it was about someone who was born with both girl parts and boy parts... or neither... or something... And they decided she should be a girl so they had to give her like pills and eventually surgery so she could function as a girl cause she was raised as a girl and her parents didn't know she wasn't really... and she's like upset that she's really part boy... Half-Jack | Reviewer: frankie | 8/11/2008 I definetly think this song is about her father. It really shows her confusion. Love or hate? How through whatever he did to her or her family, or whatever it is they went through, scarred her. The song gives you the feeling how half empty she must feel. Nothing feels complete. How hating your father is like hating half of who you are. And that itself would seem unbearable... For My Father | Reviewer: Edith Kyle | 8/7/2008 I don't know about the interpretations of this song but i just wanted to help out by saying that this is definately about her father and not a relationship with a lover as this song was dedicated to Amanda's father. On the Dresden Dolls website in the lyrics for this song it says "For my father" at the top under the name. Lovers? | Reviewer: Kara | 8/4/2008 Perhaps, this is a song about a lover. Jack and Jill are known as lovers, not simply childhood "friends." So, maybe the verses after the initial are about being lovers and having broken up, etc. A lot of times, when you're with someone for a long time, you do become half of them. You know? " and when i'm brave enough and find a clever way to kick him out and i'm so high not even you and all your love could bring me down on 83rd he never found the magic words to change this fact: i'm half jill and half jack" Maybe this song is about wanting herself back. As I said before, when you are with someone a very long time, you often mold into eachother and you are whole. Also, maybe the reference to her mother could be a comparison of her mother's relationships. The relationship could have been an abusive/bad relationship to have been in, and her mother could have been involved in abusive/bad relationships as well. Pills/corrective surgery could be a reference to depression or bipolar disorder. My personal analysis of this is that it is a story of lovers gone awry, an abusive relationship, and finding herself without her counterpart, "jack." Telling him to flee (run, jack, run.) is a warning-- she's angry. Haha. It's definitely about her father | Reviewer: MoTrubble | 7/22/2008 Even though there are some lyrics that are confusing: "it's half biology and half corrective surgery gone wrong" and the reference to pills that could take it back( RU38? ). I think the line "but i'd sacrifice my body if it meant i'd get the jack part out" sums up how much she hates the part of her that is her father. I didn't think of that - Good Idea Though! | Reviewer: Anonymous | 11/27/2007 The thing about a horrible father-daughter relationship is a really interesting interpretation. I like that - I didn't think of that before. But it is pretty obvious once you start looking for it. I couldn't see why there'd be any reason to write seriously about a botched transgender option - I never thought it was about that. Not in a literal sense. The first thing I made me think of when I heard it was actually a kind of feminist thing. About not being society's stereotypical girly-girl, but the negative aspects of having to be a bit masculine to keep your credibility. How you can't just give in and be a 'soft' female and still keep your self-respect. I think the father-daughter thing's more plausible, though. :) Add Your New Review About The Song By Pages:   1    2    3