In an interview with Pitchfork, Foxygen explained that lead singer Sam France, “hates” New York:

Sam: It’s just meant to sound offensive or controversial.

Jonathan: Sam doesn’t like New York. Last time we were there we had a horrible time. We got robbed at Webster Hall. New York’s fucked Sam over quite a bit.

Sam: New York’s kind of evil.

The line is a not-so-subtle jab at hipster culture, of which some might argue Brooklyn, New York the capitol.

This is his attempt at reconciling his feelings of letting her go and coping with his own emotions.

As he starts to spiral into the emotion of not being loved by his “Shuggie” anymore, he caroons into space and you can almost feel him spinning around the room “I begin and I begin, and I….” reminiscent of old 70’s bands like the chamber sounds of The Beatles and the psychadelic nostalgia of Strawberry Alarm Clock

Presumably, his “Shuggie” now has a baby girl and he waxes on about seeing her wearing “rhino shaped earrings.” This is an example of the 60 and 70’s glam rock imagery that permeates much of Foxygen’s music:

He’s just starting to understand that his “Shuggie” doesn’t love him anymore.

“Shuggie” is short for Sugar and was most notably the moniker of famed jazz guitarist Shuggie Otis. His real name was Johnny Alexander Veliotes, Jr, but his mother dubbed him “Shuggie” when he was born and it stuck.

Sult lists a bunch of trends 20-something hipsters in Seattle were into during the ‘90s, most infamously piercing their tongues. This list was supposed to be a snide, ironic remark, but when the song gained mainstream popularity, it had the opposite effect.

Sult says: “[L]iterally hundreds of kids came up to me and said, ‘I got my tongue pierced because of that song.’ And they would show me and I sort of thought, ‘Well, that was not my intention. I wasn’t trying to give a boost to the tongue-piercing industry—I just thought that the idea in the song was that people are letting these sort of outward signifiers stand in for real kinds of rebellion, and isn’t that silly? But if I were in academia, I would say that it wound up sort of reifying the more superficial elements, which was very bizarre.”

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