Whilst I was travelling around Thailand I did much listening to Angus and Julia Stone. They are two of my favourite musicians and I love their music. During one of the many listenings on my holiday, I noticed the lyrics to one of their songs, Hollywood. It is a really nice song but I had never really paid attention to the meaning of the lyrics previously, and when I did, I liked the song even more. Basically the song is Julia singing about how she hates Hollywood because of the all the fairy tales that they tell, and that they make an impressionable young girl think that fairytale endings are real, but in the real world things like that just don't happen.
My favourite lyrics are, "They all would have been killed in the Sound of Music" and "She never would have made it to shore, The little mermaid. He would have married a whore, From a wealthy family, after all he was royalty." It just breaks down those fairy tale endings to what would have happened in the real world, in her opinion, and does it quite brutally. However, the song is just a nice slow song and so you just don't see the lyrics coming, which is why I like it. I also like the fact that she opens the door in the song for the possibility of a 'happily ever after', such as 'Johnny and June,' whom I assume to be Johnny Cash and June Carter (their 'happily ever after' came after many not so pleasant moments). So even though the song is about how Hollywood is responsible for false hope, there is actually some hope out there that you will get a 'happily ever after', maybe just not the fairytale one that Hollywood lead you to expect.
If you want to read the lyrics check out Song Meanings or listen to the song on YouTube.
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