8/15/2023 0 Comments Juans not listening in spanish![]() In this song, the Pet Shop Boys are using the figure of Don Juan as a metaphor for German dictator Adolf Hitler (1889-1945). In subsequent centuries artists as diverse as Molière, Mozart, Shadwell, Byron, Browning, and Shaw have told his tale in one way or another. Don Juan – The legend of the amoral Spanish nobleman Don Juan received its earliest known literary treatment circa 1630 in a drama written by the Spanish monk and author Gabriel Tellez under the pseudonym Tirso de Molina.It's simply a snide way of referring to a movie executive, much as one could refer Goldwyn-Mayer" isn't a mistake at allthat perhaps Then again, one of my site visitors has suggested Metro, Goldwyn, and Mayerthe latter two of which were run by Samuel GoldwynĪnd Louis B. Goldwyn-Mayer." The famous movie studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (more popularly knownĪs MGM) was formed by the merger of three smaller studioslogically enough, He writes of "films forĪ Warner brother or Mister Goldwyn-Mayer." But there's no such person as "Mister Noticed his other major lyrical mistake in this song. Madame Lupescu's first name was actually Magda. Noted with some admitted embarrassment his error in referring to "Marie Lupescu." He met Chris!he was striving for "lyrics in the style of Façade by Edith Sitwell." (Chris then quipped, "Was it slightly pretentious?") Neil also Neil states that when he wrote the gist of this songback in 1978, before In the 2001 reissue booklet for Introspective, (With the exception of Greece, all of the nations in the Balkans were, for at least a time, German allies during the Second World War.) Ultimately, it would seem that the song is a metaphorical description of the Nazi "seduction" of the Balkans during the 1930s. King Alexander of Yugoslavia, King Zog of Albania, and Madame Lupescu. Lesser-known figures from pre-war Europe who are mentioned in passing, such as "Clues" are offered in the form of various Nothing for the harm he may do to others (especially women) in his pursuits of pleasureis apparentlyĪ metaphor for Hitler, who's about to take a "bride" (Germany, or perhaps even all Juanthe legendary Spanish nobleman who lives exclusively for himself, caring World War Two," it would have been very difficult to figure out. That this song is an allegory of "the political situation in the Balkans before Other releases - b-side of single "Domino Dancing"Ī song that ranks at or near the top of the list for "PSB obscurantism." If it weren't for the fact that Neil has affirmed ![]() Subsequent albums - Introspective 2001 reissue Further Listening 1988-1989 bonus disc
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