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Folding is to back out of a hand in the game poker – he’ll make you back down. MacBooks also fold closed; clever wordplay.
The reference to a “MacBook” here is also a reference to privilege and elitism, implying that higher class people are in his way.
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Fuck your life, trick bitch DJ White Shadow (Ft. Lady Gaga) – TRAP AKA CAKE
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You'll be bangin' on my chest, bang bang, gorilla Bruno Mars – Gorilla
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Normally, such words like “hunter” and “killer” would be more suitable in a rapey or horror movie context. However, the gorilla motif in this song creates a fantasy that he represents to amp up his lover’s horniness.
And for bang, bang, that’s just what’s happening up above. The downlow action is not suitable for pop radio.
Is he banging his chest or rubbing his nipples? The answer may surprise you!
We don't stop, we keep rockin' while they knockin' on our door Bruno Mars – Gorilla
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To the very end of the song, Bruno shifts the blame from himself to the girls.
The forlorn tone in his croning highlights that this state of living is unsustainable. He’s doomed at this point.
Quite a downer way to begin the album, but his debut begins a similar way with Grenade so what you expected?
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Even though he’s now famous (but broke from splurging on a car), he yearns for his pre-fame life. He’s imagining actually falling in love, as opposed to his current superficial “relationships”.
I get lost in the words I say
Start believin' my own lies
Like everythin' will be okay Bruno Mars – Young Girls
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He performs music on stages as escapism.
These lines take on a meta meaning. Perhaps he’s believing the romanticized suicidal tendencies in a song like Grenade.
He ignores his own anxieties, using “art” as an excuse. By losing himself in performance, he loses a sense of self.
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A reference to a well-known quote that compares writing to opening a vein:
Making art, or specifically songwriting, can be hard, and can feel like one cutting themselves.
I think that when they say another pretty vein just died, in terms of when you quote that writing is easy, that you just sit down in front of a typewriter open a vein and bleed, that they’re saying that another really good idea just died, as in being forgotten, to be lost forever.
I actually think it means making art and songwriting are ways for a person to put their thoughts out there, hence the blood part, like the thoughts are circling through the blood of that person, and he lets them out and puts them down on paper