Born Slippery by underworld...?!
Question: Is this a gay song? O.o Or I'm missundertanding the lyrics 10 points to the person that explain me the lyrics xD
Answers: Is this a gay song? O.o Or I'm missundertanding the lyrics 10 points to the person that explain me the lyrics xD
to start the song title is Born Slippy... but as for explaining it I hope this helps it is an interview with Karl Hyde the singer and songwriter for Underworld on http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learni...
What is 'Born Slippy' - a dream? A dream come true? Or is it your view of reality?
In the simplest form, it's me walking through the streets of Soho trying to get back home to Romford in Essex. I was referring to myself reduced to a piece of meat, due to the fact that I'd drunk too much. The bigger story is that I'm fascinated by the kind of snapshots that one retains when you've had a couple of drinks. These kind of very precise snapshots one has of a little piece of street, or of a rubbish bin, or of a tape-recorder... I'm talking about being like a hoover, hoovering up all the images and the sounds and the smells of the city. Because after all it's cities that would inspire me.
What exactly does the word 'babe' mean here? Not 'a child', it seems...
What I'm referring to there is a kind of a male idea of a stereotype. This kind of like, 'Ah, babes, oh, she's a real babe' - meaning a kind of real derogatory term... For a woman, yeah. And that's not having a go at women. That's having a go at men.
Why did you choose to use the word 'boy' to describe a man - not 'chap' or 'lad'?
Because I think men are boys. Most of us haven't grown up, you know, most of us are still struggling with taking responsibility. It's like, 'I don't want responsibility tonight, tonight I want to lose control' ... And so, it's boy again.
In the song, the word lager gets repeated 16 times! Did you mean it to be a 'lager anthem'?
The lyrics are quite ironic. At first it was kind of upsetting that it was used like a 'lager anthem', which was the antithesis of the way it was written. It was a piece of irony. But I still believe that cities are beautiful places and that people are essentially good and that's what I'm following at the moment. I've done my time, as far as I'm concerned, underneath the city and I'm looking at other things.
hope that helps, i never listened to the song sober... so it seemed to make a lot more sense i was not sober...
good luck,
kristin
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It's actually Born Slippy Nuxx
From Wikipedia:
Born Slippy .NUXX" is a 1996 single by the band Underworld.
It was preceded in January 1995 by the single Born Slippy, which featured the ".NUXX" mix as a b-side. The band has stated that the pounding, relentless rhythm and shouted lyrics of the track were originally meant "as a joke"[1], and the single received little attention. The ".NUXX" mix was released as its own proper single in the wake of the 1996 Danny Boyle film Trainspotting, where it could be heard in the final scene. The movie stoked immense public interest in the previously little-known track, helping the single peak at Number 2 in the UK Singles Chart in July 1996.
The track has since appeared on countless compilations, mashup records, and remixes. Due to its immense popularity, it has been played at nearly every Underworld live performance since 1996.
The single was re-issued in 1999, in France and Germany, to capitalize on their new album, Beaucoup Fish.
The song was newly remixed in 2003 and released as a single to coincide with their anthology release, 1992-2002.