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- From: sl313028@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Jazz (I've got))
- Subject: Re: What has Depeche Mode got to say?
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- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 05:42:16 GMT
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- In article <ecater36.724447061@ursa> ecater36@ursa.calvin.edu (Evan Cater) writes:
- >sdt8s@curry.edschool.Virginia.EDU (Steve Tilson) writes:
- >
- ...stuff deleted...
- >
- >Those are both reasonable interpretations; either one *could* be what
- >the writer intended... but I don't think it is.
- >
- >Here's what can objectively be discerned from the song: the speaker
- >(not necessarily Gore) is encouraging somebody else to consider him
- >his or her "own personal Jesus." That's about all we get. What it means
- >to be a "personal Jesus" is not clear, nor are the speaker's reasons for
- >suggesting this kind of relationship. The song is left very much open to
- >interpretation. So we really don't know what the author intends.
- >
- >The song doesn't seem to me to be particularly seem to me to be partic-
- >ularly satiric... I don't think he's ridiculing anything, including
- >personal relationships with Jesus. I agree that the song doesn't say
- >enough specifically to make a strong case for the Robert Tilton interp.
- >It fits okay, but I doubt if that was his intention. So what do I think
- >he's trying to say? I can offer a couple of possibilities I've thought
- >of:
- ...other stuff deleted...
- I think i remember seeing the video a while back, and if a "picture is
- worth a thousand words"...i don't think he was trying to be close to
- Christianity...(kinda racy stuff...i think the album cover is too, if i
- can remember it)...
-
- -Jah Love,
- jon everyday remembering Christ
-