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Posted on August 8 2008
On one hand it is a cynical joke. It's about a DJ getting a headjob under the decks at a club. It's about a girl wearing all the right brands. It's about kids starting a band so they can be cool at parties. About rich guys flashing money around to score hot girls and hot girls flashing themselves around to score rich guys (or rich girls scoring hot guys). It's about over the top fancy cars parked out the front of over the top fancy cafes' and a million other things. Social Currency; what's yours? Is it worth it? Does your life mean anything without it? Does your life mean anything anyway?
The other side to this is that the song is kind of about hope. It's about accepting the trappings and the pitfalls and rolling with the punches as well as rolling in the filth of that ever so fake side of society that knows no other kind of currency. As all assets, material and otherwise, become a form of social currency. Believing in what you do while realising the complete futility of it all at the same time.
Having an awareness of life is to live a dualism; it is truly human to know denial. No one is genuinely remembered for who they are, just what they did, who they impressed, depressed or caressed.
Catch Melborne's Children Collide as they tour the country in August with the Hoodoo Gurus, and again in September alongside The Living End! For dates and ticketing information, and to check out the video for Social Currency visit www.myspace.com/childrencollide
Children Collide will release their debut album in October. |
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