Results for “outsider mythology”

Songs

Television

This is Television's earliest single, a hypnotic character sketch built more on texture and repetition than narrative logic. The…

outsider mythology alienation the cost of vision

Jethro Tull

This is a sardonic protest against the commercial and violent hijacking of Christian imagery in American culture, pairing…

religious hypocrisy American mythology and violence commercialization of faith

Bruce Springsteen

A young man stands in a driveway trying to talk a woman named Mary into getting in his car and leaving town with him. Over five…

escape and flight the limits of romantic promise small-town decay

D'Angelo

A prayer-like meditation on trying to hold steady inside collapse, written for a video game about the death of the American…

endurance amid chaos spiritual uncertainty frontier mythology and its end

Creedence Clearwater Revival

CCR's version of this traditional folk-blues song reworks a prison-labor lament into swampy rock, keeping the old imagery of…

incarceration and forced labor longing for deliverance folk mythology / superstition

Bert Jansch

This is a traditional Appalachian song (with roots in older British/American folk balladry) about a woman driven out of a…

exile and social rejection itinerancy gendered outsider status

Mott the Hoople

A glam-rock anthem that assembles a cast of disaffected, gender-bending teenagers and hands them a vague, urgent 'news' to…

generational rupture glam identity and androgyny disaffection with 60s idealism

Ethan Whitney

This is a straightforward pop declaration of devotion that borrows superhero mythology to dress up a fairly conventional promise…

devotion and support escapism fantasy of destiny

Patti Smith

A duet between erotic urgency and something closer to faith: the speaker asks a lover to take her as she is, and then defends…

erotic desire as sustenance night as sanctuary from harm doubt and belief