What is this?
The Genius annotation is the work of the Genius Editorial project. Our editors and contributors collaborate to create the most interesting and informative explanation of any line of text. It’s also a work in progress, so leave a suggestion if this or any annotation is missing something.
To learn more about participating in the Genius Editorial project, check out the contributor guidelines.
What is this?
The Genius annotation is the work of the Genius Editorial project. Our editors and contributors collaborate to create the most interesting and informative explanation of any line of text. It’s also a work in progress, so leave a suggestion if this or any annotation is missing something.
To learn more about participating in the Genius Editorial project, check out the contributor guidelines.
Thus the ZAZ trio decided to combine skeet shooting and surfing. A combination so ridiculously inviable (standing while riding a wave is already hard enough without having to shoot at the same time – and add that sand and water clog the shotguns…) that it becomes comedy gold.
What is this?
The Genius annotation is the work of the Genius Editorial project. Our editors and contributors collaborate to create the most interesting and informative explanation of any line of text. It’s also a work in progress, so leave a suggestion if this or any annotation is missing something.
To learn more about participating in the Genius Editorial project, check out the contributor guidelines.
What is this?
The Genius annotation is the work of the Genius Editorial project. Our editors and contributors collaborate to create the most interesting and informative explanation of any line of text. It’s also a work in progress, so leave a suggestion if this or any annotation is missing something.
To learn more about participating in the Genius Editorial project, check out the contributor guidelines.
Given the Foxboro Hot Tubs nostalgic garage rock sound, the chorus most likely pays homage to either “Ride Sally Ride” by Lou Reed or “Mustang Sally” by Wilson Pickett, both of which feature the lyric “ride Sally ride”. A cover of Pickett’s song was used in the movie The Commitments, and can be seen below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvHuv9xVB9E
It is clear Sally is willing to take risks, much like the other characters on this album. The bike can be taken as a literal joyride, or a clever euphemism, as used by Eminem & Skylar Grey in “C'mon Let Me Ride”, basically urging Sally to have sex with him.
What is this?
The Genius annotation is the work of the Genius Editorial project. Our editors and contributors collaborate to create the most interesting and informative explanation of any line of text. It’s also a work in progress, so leave a suggestion if this or any annotation is missing something.
To learn more about participating in the Genius Editorial project, check out the contributor guidelines.
James Dean was a famous American actor and a cultural icon known for his role in Rebel Without A Cause as well as pioneering the greaser image popular in the 1950s. Dean died tragically in 1955 in a car accident. Dean has been mentioned by D-WHY before as well as Childish Gambino.
Kurt Cobain was the lead singer of Nirvana, the famous American band known for being at the forefront of the Grunge subgenre. Cobain was tragically addicted to heroin, as his constant battles with addiction would become a factor in his suicide. Cobain is often mentioned by rappers, and is remembered as a symbol of the disenchanted youth of the 1990s.
D-WHY strives to have the same cultural impact as these embattled icons.
What is this?
The Genius annotation is the work of the Genius Editorial project. Our editors and contributors collaborate to create the most interesting and informative explanation of any line of text. It’s also a work in progress, so leave a suggestion if this or any annotation is missing something.
To learn more about participating in the Genius Editorial project, check out the contributor guidelines.
Here, D-WHY plays off the double meaning of lay. When vacationing in Hawaii it is customary to receive a lei, a necklace made of flowers, upon arrival.
Lay is also used to mean getting laid. It seems D needs a vacation and some T and A after all the stress he’s been put under.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=BZOi1O7INmg#t=31s
What is this?
The Genius annotation is the work of the Genius Editorial project. Our editors and contributors collaborate to create the most interesting and informative explanation of any line of text. It’s also a work in progress, so leave a suggestion if this or any annotation is missing something.
To learn more about participating in the Genius Editorial project, check out the contributor guidelines.
Down no telephone line Arctic Monkeys – What If You Were Right the First Time?
What is this?
The Genius annotation is the work of the Genius Editorial project. Our editors and contributors collaborate to create the most interesting and informative explanation of any line of text. It’s also a work in progress, so leave a suggestion if this or any annotation is missing something.
To learn more about participating in the Genius Editorial project, check out the contributor guidelines.
It is much easier to lie to someone over the phone (even easier over text) due to the fact that you don’t have to look them in the eyes. Eye movement can be a key indicator whether or not someone is lying, as your eyes naturally move when you are accessing your memory as opposed to avoiding eye contact when one is lying. He is losing trust in this girl, and can’t tell if she is being faithful because her voice doesn’t falter on the phone. Without seeing her, there is no way to tell whether or not she is being truthful.
Someone has trust issues!
Losing control, break my sanity Foxboro Hot Tubs – Stop, Drop and Roll
What is this?
The Genius annotation is the work of the Genius Editorial project. Our editors and contributors collaborate to create the most interesting and informative explanation of any line of text. It’s also a work in progress, so leave a suggestion if this or any annotation is missing something.
To learn more about participating in the Genius Editorial project, check out the contributor guidelines.
A cherry bomb is a sphere shaped firework. Although they are not deadly, the explosion is still significant. It seems this girl has a sharp tongue.
Furthermore, a cherry bomb is a type of drink, continuing the theme of drinking and partying.
Also, “Cherry Bomb” is a song by the all girls punk rock group The Renegades. The band saw their height of popularity in the 1970s and recently a movie was made about the band starring Kristen Stewart. The Runaways partied hard, just like this girl!
What is this?
The Genius annotation is the work of the Genius Editorial project. Our editors and contributors collaborate to create the most interesting and informative explanation of any line of text. It’s also a work in progress, so leave a suggestion if this or any annotation is missing something.
To learn more about participating in the Genius Editorial project, check out the contributor guidelines.
The song starts off with Alex writing down his phone number, hoping to give it to a girl he has seen at the bar. Usually he doesn’t have the confidence to do something like this, relaying that he never wrote it down before.
Scenes like this are very common in movies, with a guy attempting to pick up a girl, sometimes successfully, other times failing miserably. Alex worries that his confidence will fade the minute he goes to speak to her since he hasn’t had that much liquid courage.
This is one of the many times Turner would sing about picking up a girl that has caught his eye early in the Arctic Monkeys career.
“bottle” is a British slang word for “courage”.
He’s saying he didn’t have the courage to give his number to the girl.
To bottle something, or not have the bottle, means to mess something up or back out of it in British slang. In cockney rhyming slang, “bottle” means “arse” (bottle and glass). Originally, you would “lose your bottle” – i.e. be so scared as to lose control of your bowel function. Alex says he didn’t have the bottle, meaning he backed out of it.