Analyse de plastic money des twisted sisters

Biography

The Twisted Sister is a 70’s American heavy metal band created by John Segall and first named Silver Star. Twisted Sister is originally from Ho-Ho-Ho-Kus in New Jersey, and later it will be based in Long Island in New York. The actuals members of the group are: Dee Snider the singer of the group, Mike Portnoy the drummer of the band, Jay Jay French and Eddie Ojeda the guitarists, Mark Mendoza the bassist. The first album of the band is “Under the Blade” which was an underground hit in the UK and got released in June 1982. The Twisted Sister are known for their eccentric style. They play on a very feminine image, with very flash colors and makeup inspired by Kiss but in COLORS. Twisted sister’s most well-known songs are “We’re not gonna take it” and “I wanna rock”. The band’s video clips contain often slapstick humor (kind of humor which imply exaggerated physical violence) which enhance the extravagant style of the member of the band. Many of the band’s song talk about themes of parent vs children and the criticism of the educational system.

Analysis

In this presentation, I will talk about the song “plastic money” which is a song from the album “still hungry” released in 2004, this album contains too the 2 most known song of the band: “I wanna Rock” and “We’re not gonna take it”.

The first verse

 (I'm livin' on the edge, I'm pushin' all the way Don't worry 'bout a thing, some other sunny day My feet ain't touchin' ground and I'm runnin' hard and fast I'm pullin' all the strings and I'm sayin' it's the last) speaks about someone who have money and who don’t worry about the things that will happen in the future and that the money makes his day better, when he says “My feet ain't touchin' ground and I'm runnin'hard and fast I'm pullin' all the strings and I'm sayin' it's the last” it means that for having money he don’t do some good thing to have it, he is ready to do everything to have it and every times that do it he say that is the last time that he does it.

Chorus

“take away my plastic money” he uses plastic money, because the plastic is a substance which is used by the capitalism and for him this dehumanizing, plastic money is money that has no moral or sentimental value, so he doesn’t want to own it.

“keep away from plastic money” he says to stay away from this no value money or it will transform you ???

“Well, don’t you play with plastic money” Don’t play with this capitalist money cause’ this is bad.

“All you pay, oh that’s the way, with plastic money” he say that if you continue to pay with this capitalist money you will fall in the spiral of the capitalism machine.

Verse 2

“I’m playin’ with everythin’ and I’m lookin’ all around”  He is playing with his money everywhere he wants

“I just can’t understand but this is what I’ve found”  He ( so the guy with a lot of money in the first verse) has found that he was victim of the capitalism society

“Capitalistically you touch your gates of mind” Thoughtlessly you let the consumerism society hit you and you get influenced by it

“a computerized assault but who commits the crime” He speaks about the globalized stock exchange which is managed by computer (dehumanization) and in despite of this these computer creates this society of consumerism and of capital that the big enterprises feed.

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