Before The Cool came out, this easily was one my most-played songs by this hip hop artist. It seems to a lot of people, including me, to be about television (first verse) and radio (second verse), but Lupe himself has stated that it’s about some concepts that are broader and more abstract: people’s inability to escape their own ideology, and that by attempting to analyze the system you become part of it. Although it can be applied to media, its larger scope is about consumption of ideas—how you cannot escape an ideology (think outside the box) by looking for the key out within that framework, and how interpreters lend power to the framework. By observing media culture, you become a part of it, and by participating in media culture, you are giving it power because television shows and songs, for example, only have power when people infer meaning from them.
Lupe Fiasco feat. Fort Minor - The Instrumental:
No comments:
Post a Comment