California Hotel
What do you think the song 'Hotel California' is about?
What do you think the song 'Hotel California' by The Eagles is about? I want you to give me a description on what you think it is about. Just when you listen to it, what do you think of?
It is for my new video series on YouTube so post your name or Nick Name.
I will pick a few people to be in the credits.
drug addiction
Just look at the lyrics:
"some dance to remember, some dance to forget"... using drugs either to try and keep alive a time when it was more new and exciting (as opposed to a habit/addiction, a need), and others turning to drugs to escape their normal lives for whatever reason.
"And still those voices are calling from farrrr awwwwaaaay, wake you up in the middle of the night just to hear them say"... the addiction itself
"And in the master's chambers, They gathered for the feast, They stabbed it with their steely knives, But they just can't kill the beast"... has to be a direct euphemism for shooting up heroine or whatever. People getting together to shoot up... "stabbing with their steely knives" meaning the needles, "but they just can't kill the beast" meaning no matter how much they use, they just want more.
Anyways, I always thought of drug addiction when I listened to the song. After seeing this question, I went quickly to see what the Eagles themselves said, and found this from wikipedia:
The song is an allegory about hedonism and self-destruction in the Southern California music industry of the late 1970s; Don Henley called it "our interpretation of the high life in Los Angeles" and later reiterated "[i]t's basically a song about the dark underbelly of the American dream and about excess in America, which is something we knew a lot about."
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