The song is not about Trump or Brexit specifically. The song is generally about how blindly masses follow the propaganda. The October revolution was taken as an example, where Lenin blindly followed external propaganda (Marx), whether blindly or not. The Russian tsar and his family were shot dead. The (external) idea of the revolution was to destabilize Tsar's Russia. Once Russia has become communist USSR, the country was isolated. Probably the intention was to weaken the country as possible, but the effect was the opposite (or not? this is very subjective). Later on, when the communist Russia has become too strong, the process was repeated again.mhog wrote:Well, both serious and sarcastic, the lyrics are clear. They are British and two of them live in the U.S. It is clearly about the Brexit and Trump, as stated in the video I posted on page 1. In regard of "Where's the Revolution", they claim, among other things:SampleScience wrote:The song is good, but like all Depeche Mode tracks you have to give it a bit of time. It grows on you after a couple of listens. As for the lyrics, English is not my native language so I can't tell if they are being sarcastic or serious. The video leaves me even more clueless, if someone care to explain, I'm all ears.
"the world is in a big mess at the moment, you can't pretend nothing is happening. We were all really depressed by the outcome of the Brexit referendum. Most people who voted did not even understand what it meant, they were not well informed. The things Trump is saying are cruel and heartless, they sound very similar to those someone was saying in 1935, and it didn't work out very well."
Of course, as always happens, DM lyrics and messages can be read on a double level: "politics" (class struggle) or "personal" (sex, drugs, love, whatever). See "masters and servants", "policy of truth", "music for the masses", "everything counts" etc. etc.
It is also true that, although "rich rockstars" now, they've always been socialist/labourist, more or less as in "British socialism". The video is somehow ironic and slightly bitter: there's no crowd, it is an empty place with only ghosts of the revolution, it looks like a lonely nightmare. Marx, Engels and Lenin (or Fidel?... who knows...) spinning around rather than moving forward "on the train of revolution" one hundred years after (Russian Revolution: 1917-2017). "Socialism or Barbarism", this is their message, I guess.
the pulpit:
the train:
“Let me control the media and I will turn any nation into a herd of pigs” - Joseph Goebbels
