So there's this song, right? "Wraith Pinned to The Mist and Other Games" by Of Montreal. I'm totally in love with this song. I want to have this song's children. I first found it through Pop Candy, which then led me to YouTube. Supposedly the song was sampled for an Outback Steakhouse commercial but I don't recall if I've ever seen that.
Music gives you mental images, right? You hear a song and you picture things in your mind. The mental image I get from this song has nothing to do with the cutesy cartoon video or the spectre of flame grilled streaks. I picture a pudgy, topless teenage girl chair dancing in front of a webcam while drinking mom and dad's liquor straight from the bottle. This is an unusually specific image, I know.
I think this image says one of two things:
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The song sounds light and airy, which I associate with freedom. The vision of the girl as pudgy might mean that she feels she's less than desirable. The fact that she's a teen is probably an indicator of social taboo, as being topless on a webcam is definitely a no-no for someone underage. Same deal with mom and dad's liquor. And the dancing? Well, dancing is always about freedom and expression, right?
So one possible explanation is that to me the song feels like breaking free.
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The other possible explanation is that I'm really fucking weird.
I won't rule out the possibility that it's a little of both.