Dirty Projectors - No Intention
You represent saying "I'm real", but is that what you meant?
Album: Bitte Orca [5th album]
Genre: Indie Pop, Art Pop, Indietronica
Album Release: June 9th 2009
Single Release: April 21st 2009
Length: 4:17
Producer: David Longstreth
Vocalist: Angel Deradoorian & Amber Coffman
Label: Domino Recording Co.
Official Audio
Live on Sirius XM in 2009
Charts, Streams & Sales
Spotify: Over 3 million
YouTube Music: Over 400 thousand
Credits
Bass, percussion
Details
- The album is titled 'Bitte Orca', which translates from German as "please killer whale"
- 'No Intention' is a song that ponders philosophical questions in a humorous way. I love how it takes the popular hip hop phrase "I'm real" and then deliberately misinterprets it as if the person is surprised at their own existence. "I'm Real! I exist!" As if the rapper meant it in a Descartes "I think therefore I am" way. Classic. It makes me laugh every time. The full line is "You represent saying "I'm real", but is that what you meant?"
Some of the lyrics are poetic and open to interpretation, "the restless corpse is collapsing wind" but sound nice and have an imagery of their own. I think the point is that sometimes things just are and we ascribe meaning to them afterwards. Why does everything need to be interpreted and understood? Is it not enough to be? Like in Descartes "I think, therefore I am", the thinking comes first, but 'No Intention' takes the position that being comes before thinking, and is sufficient in its own right.
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