MEGALOMANIAC AT WORK
Attention all up and coming recording artists, garage bands, and kids in the basement picking chords from the guitar: watch every word you put in a song because that indy CD that comes out in limited release could come back to bite you in the ass in 10 years.
Incubus is scheduled to perform Sept. 10 as a part of the Oklahoma State University (OSU) "Orange Peel," pep rally held before the season's first home football game.
Ask Incubus they’ll you that the things that a bunch of kids do can cause headaches as an adult. In 1996 Incubus released "fungus amongus" an album that includes the following words from the band:
"So what do four, bored, fifteen-year-old suburbanites do with their afternoons and weekends you ask? Well besides surfing, fretting over the opposite sex and popping zits, we formed a band!"
"Thank you for your interest and your money, and on behalf of the entire band I would like to formally apologize in advance for this album. So, sorry. But, alas! We have an excuse! We were a mere 16 years old and still wanting very badly to be Primus, Mr. Bungle, and The Red Hot Chili Peppers all rolled into one. Come on, who didn’t want to be that? If you have a heart, you will recgonize that all bands start somewhere. And some of them move in specific directions thereafter. I would like to think that we’ve gotten better, and I hope that you can agree."
But it doesn’t look like Friday’s show is going to go off without a hitch. This year Incubus is taking the heat for what protesters are calling "an evil name" and Pastor John Dickey also feels that Incubus lyrics are " very sexual. They're full of profanity and they're full of drug abuse. I don't think that's very healthy."
True, Websters defines Incubus three ways as:
In-cu-bus- 1-an evil spirit that lies on persons in their sleep: esp one that has sexual intercourse with women while they are sleeping 2-nightmare 3- one that oppresses or burdens a nightmare.
How far you choose to read is up to you, but nightmare isn’t really so bad, and we should love opposition to nightmares, shouldn’t we?
Although just last year the Barenaked Ladies, an immediate target for the morality obsessed, performed at the OSU event without a hitch.
In 2002, Third Eye Blind performed and no one started a protest because of the lyrics of their hit single Semi Charmed Life include "Doing crystal meth, Will lift you up until you break", "I took the hit that I was given, Then I bumped again, And then I bumped again" and "Those little red panties , They pass the test, Slide up around the belly, Face down on the mattress"
On the offensive lyrics front lets take a look at the last three Incubus albums, the three major label albums that brought Incubus their geographically unlimited success.
Make Yourself- there are 3 swear words in 2 songs
Morning View-Not one
A Crow Left Of The Murder- there are 4 swear words found in 2 songs
The MEGALOMANIAC factor.
Now, we couldn’t possibly begin to assume that there is a political agenda here, could we?
But what else could it be? We’ve looked at the definition of the name and figured out it isn’t really that bad, as long as you dig a little deeper read past the first meaning. Not to mention that you have to disregard the meaning of the name all together really because of the reasons that Incubus picked it "Because it is a silly sounding word." Mike Einziger, guitar. "Because we were 15 and we had to think of a name in a short amount of time. The definition had sex in it, and being 15, we were like, "Cool!" Brandon Boyd, vocals.
And as far as the lyric content goes we’ve established that they keep the swearing to a minimum.
So that leaves the controversy that surrounded the Megalomaniac video. In it a familiar looking man is giving a speech at a podium that is a gas pump, as well it includes imagery that tells that you can’t live on oil alone. So because of this the video was pulled from the daytime MTV rotation shortly after it’s release, which conviently coincided with Janet Jackson’s infamous wordrobe malfunction. MTV deemed the video racey, the irony of that is that it is one of the only videos where Brandon Boyd keeps his shirt on.
Attention all up and coming recording artists, garage bands, and kids in the basement picking chords from the guitar: watch every word you put in a song because that indy CD that comes out in limited release could come back to bite you in the ass in 10 years.
Incubus is scheduled to perform Sept. 10 as a part of the Oklahoma State University (OSU) "Orange Peel," pep rally held before the season's first home football game.
Ask Incubus they’ll you that the things that a bunch of kids do can cause headaches as an adult. In 1996 Incubus released "fungus amongus" an album that includes the following words from the band:
"So what do four, bored, fifteen-year-old suburbanites do with their afternoons and weekends you ask? Well besides surfing, fretting over the opposite sex and popping zits, we formed a band!"
"Thank you for your interest and your money, and on behalf of the entire band I would like to formally apologize in advance for this album. So, sorry. But, alas! We have an excuse! We were a mere 16 years old and still wanting very badly to be Primus, Mr. Bungle, and The Red Hot Chili Peppers all rolled into one. Come on, who didn’t want to be that? If you have a heart, you will recgonize that all bands start somewhere. And some of them move in specific directions thereafter. I would like to think that we’ve gotten better, and I hope that you can agree."
But it doesn’t look like Friday’s show is going to go off without a hitch. This year Incubus is taking the heat for what protesters are calling "an evil name" and Pastor John Dickey also feels that Incubus lyrics are " very sexual. They're full of profanity and they're full of drug abuse. I don't think that's very healthy."
True, Websters defines Incubus three ways as:
In-cu-bus- 1-an evil spirit that lies on persons in their sleep: esp one that has sexual intercourse with women while they are sleeping 2-nightmare 3- one that oppresses or burdens a nightmare.
How far you choose to read is up to you, but nightmare isn’t really so bad, and we should love opposition to nightmares, shouldn’t we?
Although just last year the Barenaked Ladies, an immediate target for the morality obsessed, performed at the OSU event without a hitch.
In 2002, Third Eye Blind performed and no one started a protest because of the lyrics of their hit single Semi Charmed Life include "Doing crystal meth, Will lift you up until you break", "I took the hit that I was given, Then I bumped again, And then I bumped again" and "Those little red panties , They pass the test, Slide up around the belly, Face down on the mattress"
On the offensive lyrics front lets take a look at the last three Incubus albums, the three major label albums that brought Incubus their geographically unlimited success.
Make Yourself- there are 3 swear words in 2 songs
Morning View-Not one
A Crow Left Of The Murder- there are 4 swear words found in 2 songs
The MEGALOMANIAC factor.
Now, we couldn’t possibly begin to assume that there is a political agenda here, could we?
But what else could it be? We’ve looked at the definition of the name and figured out it isn’t really that bad, as long as you dig a little deeper read past the first meaning. Not to mention that you have to disregard the meaning of the name all together really because of the reasons that Incubus picked it "Because it is a silly sounding word." Mike Einziger, guitar. "Because we were 15 and we had to think of a name in a short amount of time. The definition had sex in it, and being 15, we were like, "Cool!" Brandon Boyd, vocals.
And as far as the lyric content goes we’ve established that they keep the swearing to a minimum.
So that leaves the controversy that surrounded the Megalomaniac video. In it a familiar looking man is giving a speech at a podium that is a gas pump, as well it includes imagery that tells that you can’t live on oil alone. So because of this the video was pulled from the daytime MTV rotation shortly after it’s release, which conviently coincided with Janet Jackson’s infamous wordrobe malfunction. MTV deemed the video racey, the irony of that is that it is one of the only videos where Brandon Boyd keeps his shirt on.
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