Questions for blog:
1. What is this song talking about lyrically?
2. How does the music mirror or help push the message?
3. The title is an allusion to 1984. Explain the connection.
Answers:
1. The lyrics discuss how what a power/authority says is always "right." In other words, people have to follow what the power says, even if what it says doesn't make sense. The power has the control.
2. The listener can't always understand what the music is saying (meaning, he or she can't HEAR the lyrics), which mirrors that what the authority always says can't always be understood.
3. In 1984, the narrator mentions that the Party could tell everyone that 2+2=5, and they would have to believe it. The connection is that the people under the authority have to believe the authority, without question, even though the authority makes no sense.
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