Arcade Fire - Rococo Lyrics

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I heard this song in JUNO award for the first time.since then I listen to it everyday,no matter where I am.Arcade Fire is an amazing band and it feels really good to know that there are still rock bands who care about lyrics and sing meaningful and impressive lyrics.

This song is not attacking the hipsters who made the last poster feel insecure in college. At least not for the reasons he is stating. The historical context of the Rococo period was one of extravagance and excess among the elite and poverty among the obedient (for the time) lower classes. Like the rest of the album, there is a strong political message with this song. It depicts a time of excess and perhaps blind joy with an undercurrent of tension of what is to come. The Rococo came at the eve of revolution and turmoil throughout the western world and there is irony to be found in the "Modern Kids" hedonistic ways if the future will in fact be as bleak as The Arcade Fire forecasts it to be.

Rococo is an 18th century style of art characterized by ornate patterns and light colours, seashells as I remember. It's the kind of word you learn in university art criticism courses and then talk about as though you're sophisticated, when actually you're just repeating your 10am lecture on French painting.

When I was in university there were lots of these people, and it's about time someone made fun of them.

It's also funny that there is absolutely nothing Rococo about this song. Nice touch.

yeah just simple lyrics..and have pleasant feel to it..!just love it.!!!!..humm...everywher

Easy to listen to? I actually understand it as a rather harsh criticism of the indie/hipster culture that made Arcade Fire big. "They build it up just to burn it back down" = Hypes. And the title is a reference to the epoch of the same name, characterized by a somewhat arty, playful and complex style that was after all rather meaningless - not quite unlike the situation today with most of the existing alternative movements are mostly apolitical...

This song is AMAZING. I am absolutely in love with it. It's so simple, yet the point is conveyed: Don't say it without meaning it.

I like me some of this song. mmm rococo..sound like some new chronic brand of cereal, and I'm likin' it.
But on the real; this song is cool as hell and easy to listen to.