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By Pages:   1    2    Add Your New Review About The Song The Reviews about So Says I (page 2/ 2) ------ performed by The Shins The Red Age | Reviewer: lc | 6/19/07 This song talks about attempts at Communism (or the red age)... Communism sounds great because it breaks down social stratification and puts everyone on level ground with everyone else. In history, however, this plan always goes awry because there is no motivation to do work. Everyone gets the same amount of money to live on and the same material goods. Hard work has no monetary pay-off which corresponds to "our lust for life went away with the rent we hated". "Because it made no money, nobody saved no one's life" shows how there is no motivation to study hard and become something useful to society, like a doctor, because at the end of the day, you come away with the same life as someone who spends all day weaving baskets. This is part of why Communism is so unsuccessful... not to mention that people get power greedy and it often becomes a dictatorship. The Shins are disappointed that human nature prevents such a wonderful thing as the utopia that Thomas More dreamed from becoming a reality. NICE! | Reviewer: John Caliber | 5/29/07 I Always Enjoy Reading The Comments People Leave, Mostly Because You Guys End Up Going Off Topic! LOL... Anywho Keep At It And Dude or Duda That Left The Whole Summary, A Summary Is What I Always Look For In All Songs, Thanx! Peace, -John Caliber dumbass | Reviewer: Jay | 4/23/07 he spelled it right. toon as in cartoon, not tune, as in music. bet you feel stupid now don't you. to trotsky | Reviewer: Sarah.. | 4/19/07 wow that whole paragraph almost made you sound like the kind of person who knows what they are talking about, until you spelled the word "tune" wrong. good one. So, say you? | Reviewer: Trotsky | 3/5/07 So, Sir Thomas Moore (see the last verse) wrote about a perfect society, Utopia, in which there wasn't any private property and laid the foundation for dreamers like Thomas Paine, Karl Marx, Lenin, Lennon... all the old dudes who think that our innate collective decency can provide all the answers as to how we can bring about the good life. And there's nothing wrong in seeking answers, there's nothing wrong in having a design. Except that, according to the Shinsters, it never works. But then, they worry, the alternative is returning to a state of nature in which dog eats dog, the laws of the jungle apply. It's all there in Political Science 101. So say I: a reactionary song of despair. Obvious inspiration: Animal Farm. But that was about a particular place and a particular time, the early Soviet Union, and so it worked, was a positive statement about how lousy bosses are whatever their stated political hue. Orwell wasn't generalising about all sentient beings, their selfishness. He had it in for just the pigs and the humans. Particular classes. This song blames all of us, we poor ordinary folk, for all the world's woes. And is therefore IMHO a wee bit depressing, despairing. See the video on youtube for further enlightenment: it spins this into a strange penguin trip about Communism and Capitalism and how neither succeed. Still, a nice toon. Mass love | Reviewer: Sarah | 2/25/07 I wouldn't exactly call the meaning of this song 'underlying' since it's actually very clear. I always applaud The Shins for their songs because all of them are alwasy so deep, you'll never hear a shallow song from them. A very good and original song from a good and original band. ^_^ coolness | Reviewer: samantha | 9/2/06 this song is not well known but i found it b/c it was already on my computer when i bought it. there was other music on there too but it was basically crap. this is all i kept. i looked up the lyrics and this song has a really good underlying meaning to it. hot Add Your New Review About The Song By Pages:   1    2