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Living Colour 12/21/25(Sun)22:56:13 No.128885590

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Living Colour Anonymous 12/21/25(Sun)22:56:13 No.128885590

The lyrics of most Living Colour songs are obviously biting and funny but it's easy to lose the satire in well constructed, fun, uplifting pop rhythms. But Living Colour actually aren't a party band; instead, many of their lyrics parody the very sources of power: ourselves.
>Look in my eyes
>What do you see?
>The cult of personality
>I know your anger, I know your dreams
>I've been everything you want to be
>Oh, I'm the cult of personality
Corey Glover's powerful, quavering voice often ends up going into high ranges, holding notes we don't always hear. His talents as a singer aren't limited to that, however, because he often inflects his voice with a kind of knowing irony. It sounds like we are listening to rock music, but we are actually experiencing a type of rock that is self-aware and critiquing its own position in society as a cultural power unit. Using their platform as entertainers, Living Colour critique the very power structures that lead people to hold them up as "rockstars" and "celebrities". Conversely, Living Colour ask us to stop using words and -isms to govern our thought, in a song that bridges slap bass with almost Jackson Five A Capella; it opens with a recorded voice warning us not to fall for abstractions and words:
>We must never take these words too seriously
>Words are very important but then if we take them too seriously
>We destroy every thing
>I'm not one of those joiners
>I'm not down with the club
>There's no place I'm going to
>You see, it's the hole I dug
It shows us, too, that we should not just read the lyrics of Living Colour song's; instead, we should leave that type of self-aggrandising interpretation and fart-sniffing to the academics who kill art by examining and dissecting it.