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We recorded it one day like really hungover and had a great day. It were a really good hangover, like a giddy one.
Alex compared the lyrics with the song’s loud and chaotic instrumentals.
This is one where I definitely think the words are taking a backseat. It’s just about chaos. Like, all the sound of it – all the music and guitars and drums – everything’s just barmy and I’m trying to make the lyrics subscribe to that as well.
He also continues to compare his creative process with William S. Burroughs, a writer from the 20th century, who’s written several novels using the cut-up and fold-in technique where you take an existing text and rearrange it to create a new one.
Do I ever do that William Burroughs thing where you cut words up and arrange them randomly? No, I never actually do it physically but maybe in my head a little bit.
-Alex Turner
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When we're side by side Arctic Monkeys – Black Treacle
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NME did an article that gave Alex a chance to talk about all of the songs on Suck it and See. You can read the full article here. This is an excerpt of what he had to say about this track.
It were all about having the words not get in the way of this one. That were one of the last ones we did when we were in London before Christmas. We did it in one day. It’s a bit like ‘505’ – that tune on the second album, where it’s just two chords all the way through and we’d wanted to do a tune like that again for a while. There’s loads of good examples of that like that LCD Soundsystem ‘All My Friends’ tune.
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Übermensch is a concept by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche in his book – Thus Spoke Zarathustra that presents the idea of an overman.
An overman as described by Zarathustra, the main character in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, is the one who is willing to risk all for the sake of enhancement of humanity.
Superman was originally a villain based off of this idea.
This isn’t the first time Milo has mentioned Nietzeche.
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Being and Nothingness is an ontological essay written by french philosopher, Jean-Paul Sartre. It demonstrates the idea that free will still exists.
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The phrase, “Jack of all trades, master of none,” is a figure of speech that refers to someone who’s okay at a lot of things but isn’t particularly special at any of them.
This term – although isn’t an insult – is often used with a negative connotation, describing the main character of this story as basic or unimpressive.
The line subsequently inspired the title of TV series ‘Master of None’, as confirmed by its creator, Aziz Ansari.
The context of the song also suggests that this person is a “jack of all trades, master of none” in terms of relationships– this person has lots of “friends” who he’s interested in superficially and use for his own gain, but no one with whom he has a meaningful connection.