The View - Same Jeans
Tom: This is our very first ever lovely guest entry (by that I mean it's our first ever guest entry, and not that it's merely our first lovely guest entry. I mean it is, but that would imply that there...
Tom: This is our very first ever lovely guest entry (by that I mean it's our first ever guest entry, and not that it's merely our first lovely guest entry. I mean it is, but that would imply that there have been prior entries). It is by someone called Kate, who has very thoughtfully allowed me to be lazy for a bit longer by submitting a piece about The View and their epic single, Same Jeans. If you wish to allow me to be lazy for a bit longer and want to submit your own piece then please, head over to the contact sect. Ta.
I've had the same jeans on for four days now
I'm gonna go to a disco in the middle of the town
Everybody's dressing up
I'm dressing down
So, in the introduction to the song, Kyle Falconer boasts that he has had the same jeans on for four days now. From my experience of boys, which is admittedly not extensive, that would make him about the cleanest one I know. Next, he seems to be going to a disco in his 4-day-old jeans. Very exciting! And what's this? It seems to be a fancy dress party and he is going in a dressing gown, which is unusual. I wonder whether he'll wear his jeans under the dressing gown as well? Or will he take them off? Oh sorry, dressing down. My mistake.
Life's one big circle
And it doesn't end
When it ends
Will you still be my friend?
This little section is a slight bit contradictory would you not say? Firstly, it suggests that life will never end. This is a lovely concept, considering the state of the world today. However, it then brings us back down to the ground by reminding us that it does in fact end. Oh. Instead of making a big deal of this though, Kyle poses the fans a question: will you still be my friend? Now this is rather interesting, as it is raising the question, can you still be someone's friend after death? Well, it could mean that when he dies, will you still listen to his music, but it could also mean ‘I might be lonely in Heaven'. We can only speculate.
I'm not making a fool of myself
I said now
I'm not making a fool of myself
This short paragraph seems somewhat confused again. The author shows a need to repeat the line, possibly showing an inner insecurity with himself or the music he is making. However, the “now” in the second line could mean that he was making a fool of himself before, but he isn't anymore. Maybe something deeper is getting to him because of the importance of a positive or unusual image in society, or possibly petrol prices or the War in Iraq? Through all of this he tells himself that at least he's not making a fool of himself. So this line could also be quite a content line.
I take my hats off to the busker man
When they drown all the sorrows singing songs
Now everything has worked out to plan
But believe me it started as long as it can
In this section Kyle seems to be wearing more than one hat, which surely implies he has two heads beneath them (Ed. or surely he's just stacked up his hats?). His hats then appear to be drowning their sorrows, seeing as hat is the only noun which has been pluralised, which in it's turn, is apparently the plan; get the hats thoroughly drunk and then, I don't know, wear them for four days?
And with the final line, he is implying that he has been trying this plan out for a long time; however, if it was coherent it could be a lot more easily analysed.
So
When you look in the mirror
Reflecting back at you someone that you don't know
Oh That's just made your head spin around
So get yourself together
Get your feet back on the ground
So, he looks in the mirror, reflecting back at him someone with two heads, and two drunk hats. Aargh! He is now turning into some sort of scary monster, up in the air in bits with his heads spinning round in a macabre scene of limbs and blood! And his feet, detached from the rest of his body, are back on the ground while the rest of him floats around hopelessly! What a painful image! Please return to your place and sing the rest of the song.
My minds not perfect but it's sincere
You'd be amazed at what you can achieve in a year
And you try so hard
But your hearts on a switch
And I know you try so hard
But your hearts on a switch
Kyle now tells us that his mind's not perfect, (possibly suggesting a subconscious insecurity again?) but that he is sincere. So he does wear jeans for 4 days and is going to go to a disco, none of that was made up. And he can do all that in a year. Amazing indeed! Fine, we feel that this song is getting back on track again after a gory few moments there.
However, then he returns to creating horrible images, leaving us with a parting shot of a heart . . . on a switch. On the other hand, this line could be more ambiguous than that, because it brings someone trying hard into it. Trying hard to do what? we ask. Maybe this means that the heart-on-a-switch line is actually referring to being able to manipulate your own feelings, not actual blood and gore. Oh! That makes much more sense.
It's nice to end on as well, because on the word switch, it reminds us we can now turn the radio off as the song is now finished.'
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