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One of my fav things to do when E:d up is to listen to cheezy pop or other music in questionable political taste and find the deeper meaning and beauty in it. Usally turns out to be a really revolutionary message. As in:
Take That: Larger than life. Obviously a statement on how political action is the only way to make a lasting impression on the world, becoming something larger than yourself, by joining a collective, a movement. The part of your actions that go beyond the selfishness of the mundane adds up with what others in the movement or collective are doing, creating a super-human force making a lasting impression on the world. Hopefully for the better.
Pink: Get this party started (or whatever it is called). The "I'm coming up" is of course a statement of experience of drugs, directed at others in the same mindset. "So you'd better get this party started" refers to a political process, a combination of the celebratory (as in "house party") and the organizatory (as in "political party") combining the users of E to a political force doing mass disobedience every weekend, for biopolitical reasons. The Party needs to be global to encompass them all from Bankok to Belgrade and back again. It must not be represented on a national level, because the drug is global in it's pressure on and crossing of borders.
Britney Spears: (Hit me baby) One more time: A statement on the split and S/M-influenced identity between The Movement and The Establishment, in which both seem to need each other in order to renew themselves, in an enormous dialectical battle. Specifically Britney refers to the (now transformed) White Overalls movement that made the experience concrete by dressing up in padding, demanding to be hit by police batons over and over again, showing/proving the abusiveness of the other party in the relationship. Future songs by Britney will surely decide which course the future of this particular movement will take.
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