Music Review: Elastica "Car Song"
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Car Song
Album: Elastica
Year: 1995
Justine Frischmann, lead singer of Elastica, savors in her wanton sexuality and independence in the subversive "Car Song."
A keyboard is tapped quietly. Then, the keyboard goes off like an alarm. Its sets a tone of danger and excitement. Before the band members "ooh" Frischmann says she likes men and they fit her body perfectly. She enjoys sleeping with a different man every chance she gets. She finds another man and asks if he would like to have sex in his car.
In the chorus, Frischmann notices the guy is a romantic. He wants to establish an emotional relationship with her. At that point, she leaves. She explains she's not interested in anything other than an one-night stand. She told him upfront. However, he insists on asking her out again.
She spots a good-looking man and becomes aroused. He's the hottest man ever. A day later, she spots another handsome guy. His smile curves and jostled chestnut brown hair falls in the right places. The guy from yesterday seems unspectular to her now. Every automobile hood she sees gets her tingly. She loves having her choice of men and not settling for any of them. She hopes to find an anti-establishment, rebellious guy like her favorite actor Peter Fonda.
The chorus ends the single.
Comparing sex to cars is a familiar theme. However, Elastica manages to flesh out the cliche and say something new with it. Frischmann is the modern woman who does not want to commit and unashamed of her sexuality. She's read in magazines that men will not respect her if she has sex with them on the first date. Girls will also distance themselves from her.
"Car Song" challenges the idea that women should be soft and submissive in their sexuality. Frischmann is rough and in control of every encounter. The major point of the single is that for women sexual urges are healthy, not dirty and wrong.
Album: Elastica
Year: 1995
Justine Frischmann, lead singer of Elastica, savors in her wanton sexuality and independence in the subversive "Car Song."
A keyboard is tapped quietly. Then, the keyboard goes off like an alarm. Its sets a tone of danger and excitement. Before the band members "ooh" Frischmann says she likes men and they fit her body perfectly. She enjoys sleeping with a different man every chance she gets. She finds another man and asks if he would like to have sex in his car.
"You could call me a car lover/'Cause I love it in a motor/And the way it feels/To ride around on new wheels/I hardly know you/But I think I'm going to/Let's go siesta/In your Ford Fiesta."
In the chorus, Frischmann notices the guy is a romantic. He wants to establish an emotional relationship with her. At that point, she leaves. She explains she's not interested in anything other than an one-night stand. She told him upfront. However, he insists on asking her out again.
"Here we go again/I'm riding in your car/Let me count to ten/'Cause it's gone way too far/Up my street to nowhere/You know what detours are/Here we go again/And it's gone way too far."
She spots a good-looking man and becomes aroused. He's the hottest man ever. A day later, she spots another handsome guy. His smile curves and jostled chestnut brown hair falls in the right places. The guy from yesterday seems unspectular to her now. Every automobile hood she sees gets her tingly. She loves having her choice of men and not settling for any of them. She hopes to find an anti-establishment, rebellious guy like her favorite actor Peter Fonda.
"Sometimes I just can't function/My heart's spaghetti junction/Every shining bonnet/Makes me think of my back on it/I just can't escape the feeling/That I'd rather be free wheeling/In every little Honda/There may lurk a Peter Fonda, oh."
The chorus ends the single.
Comparing sex to cars is a familiar theme. However, Elastica manages to flesh out the cliche and say something new with it. Frischmann is the modern woman who does not want to commit and unashamed of her sexuality. She's read in magazines that men will not respect her if she has sex with them on the first date. Girls will also distance themselves from her.
"Car Song" challenges the idea that women should be soft and submissive in their sexuality. Frischmann is rough and in control of every encounter. The major point of the single is that for women sexual urges are healthy, not dirty and wrong.