Parkway drive is an Australian, straight-edge metal band who believe in equality among everyone. Many of their songs sing of freedom, democracy, and the rights of everyone. Its odd because everyone thinks of them as Evil and Bad and Satanic when they are the complete opposite of that. They are against stereotypes and believe everyone should have equal freedom. They are following in the american ideology of freedom and this one song which is one of my personal favorites and one that speaks to its audience is "The sirens song."
The name of the song is an important metaphor that has to do with freedom and equality. "The sirens song" is a metaphor that goes up against government making the decisions for us and not being a democracy and so on. There is a line in the song that says "...follow the sirens song...and you will lose all right..." Hearing that you may just think oh whatever that has nothing to do with me but in interviews Winston McCall, lead singer of parkway drive, has personally said that those lines mean if you follow the "siren" (the government) you will lose all right which means you will lose your freedom. This song is a great example of bands that metaphorically rise above all the problems in the world using their music.
Parkway drive is a great influence to live freely and be a democrat. They are involved in controversies with people who are republican and also christians. Christians think " hmm their growling and screaming...they must be singing about the devil..." creating a stereotype which goes against parkways whole message to he world. Even when your singing of other problems people judge to quickly. You can never judge a book by its cover...
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1 comment:
That sounds like a good band, Is it popular in the US? Ive never heard of it before. Do they have alot of songs like this one or was this a one hit wonder? You did a very good job of describing the song though.
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