In an age when it's cool to say that this band sucks, I say that this song is incredible.
I wonder what Gene Simmons was inspired by when he wrote this more than 40 years ago. My theory is that he was 23 at the time and writing about a teenage girl, but by making the protagonist 93-year-old man who's losing his vision attempts to swap some of the creepiness for absurdity. Does it succeed?
Also look for all the ways that "blind" could be applied to the crowd—there's a patriotic fervor to their fandom. Also the hallucinatory quality created by the replicated makeup on the members of Melbourne's Symphony backing up the band is reminiscent of the black-and-white dazzle camouflage used by Britain's navy during World War I, and by zebras for as long as zebras have been zebras:
I wonder what Gene Simmons was inspired by when he wrote this more than 40 years ago. My theory is that he was 23 at the time and writing about a teenage girl, but by making the protagonist 93-year-old man who's losing his vision attempts to swap some of the creepiness for absurdity. Does it succeed?
Also look for all the ways that "blind" could be applied to the crowd—there's a patriotic fervor to their fandom. Also the hallucinatory quality created by the replicated makeup on the members of Melbourne's Symphony backing up the band is reminiscent of the black-and-white dazzle camouflage used by Britain's navy during World War I, and by zebras for as long as zebras have been zebras:
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