Super Furry Animals lyrics - Juxtapozed With U

Super Furry Animals lyrics - Juxtapozed With U Juxtapozed With U

It's easy when you know how
To get along without Biff! Bang! Pow!
And if I see you're fed up
I'll stop and give you a leg up
Overpriced unreal estate, surreal estate
The highest price they've hit to date
Creating new divides and tension

You've got to tolerate
All those people that you hate
I'm not in love with you
But I won't hold that against you
You've got to tolerate
Some of those people that you hate
I'm not in love with you
But I won't hold that against you

This is a tale of two city/situations
Mutual appreciation
Away from narrow preconception
Avoiding conflict hypertension
Non-phobic word aerobic
This was my domain
'Til someone stole my name

Let's get juxtaposed, juxtaposed
Just suppose I juxtapose with you
(I wanna get juxtaposed with you) (X4)

Let's get juxtaposed

Quote (1) (Gruff on ringsaroundtheworld.co.uk):
"It's a very loved up song. I wanted to add duets to my songwriting canon you know, and we approached Bobby Brown and Brian Harvey but they turned us down, so I sung it myself: a very schizophrenic thing to do. I used a vocoder to replicate a different person. I wanted to do something like 'Ebony And Ivory'. It's about house prices going up, and people being left behind by the super-rich. It's about social injustice; loved up social justice. For me it's a shocking song, because you can't shock with loud guitars anymore. That macho thing's been done so that kind of shocking isn't shocking. For me it's fairly subversive, because it's a polished and clean and tidy, uplifting pop song. For me there is a reason to put it out (as a first single) to make sure people don't become complacent with a particular idea of what we are as a band. I like the idea that we can shock people a bit and test people a little: test people's concept of taste. I think there's a lot of macho music going around which has become a bit tiresome, and it's a statement almost, it's like a jingle stuck on the album. Fukme 99 did the (DVD) film for it. I think it's about the outsider. There's a lonely, crappy looking cardboard camera walking around Hammersmith getting chucked out of Halfords, and he meets up with a lonely clapperboard. In turn they find a downtrodden microphone and they get together and make films, and it ends up in a big dance routine with all these other cardboard outsiders. I write songs that bring people together."
Quote (2) (Gruff):
"That was originally going to be a duet. We approached Bobby Brown and Brian Harvey to sing it with me but they both turned it down. Now it's a duet with myself and probably the first duet by one person. It's as close to a soul song as a load of atheists can get."
Quote (3) (Gruff):
"How it came about was, we saw a video called 'The Child' by Alex Gopher done by this guy called Monsieur Jaqueet from Paris and we phoned him up and asked if he'd do our video. The song is about social division, so we played him the song and here we are - he set it in New York and cast all these yuppies - they all die in a towering inferno at the end. As a happy ending. It's to illustrate that money is the root of all evil. Money and art gallery openings are the root of all evil. Why art gallery openings? They're just horrible things - you have to stand there and look at these pictures. Most people in art galleries don't really want to be there anyway. They're just there for the mushroom pastries. The neon-type effects is actually meant to be a heat seeking camera, going after the people 'Predator'-style. It's how we all are on the inside."
Quote (4) (Gruff):
"There is a totally over-the-top vocal with a backdrop of impending war. It came out in 2001 when it was pretty obvious the US was going to start invading all these different countries. It was pre-9/11 but that event only confirmed what was going to happen. The song was originally going to be a duet and we had asked Brian Harvey to do it. I think it would have been amazing and added some extra Harveyness to it. He could have added some depth to the song, but instead I had to do a duet with myself."
Where:
Monnow Valley Studios/Bearsville Studios
When:
2001
Source:
Track 4 (Songbook): 3 minutes, 12 seconds
Track 10 (Rings Around The World): 3 minutes, 8 seconds
A-side (Juxtapozed With U): 3 minutes, 10 seconds
Status:
Complete!
Video director:
Dawn Of The New Assembly/H5
DVD director:
D.O.N.A. - A heart warming tale of found love. An assortment of filmmaking equipment wanders lost and lonely around shopping malls, football fields and around the back of film sets. Meeting rejection and ridicule, they look a sad lot. It is not until they find each other that they can find true love and purpose, and when they do, they go and make movie together. The question on everyone's lips however, is whatever happened to D.O.N.A.? Juxtapozed With U is a debut video for Dawn of the New Assembly. The video is inspired by the movement 'Festival Of Unknown' which is a group formed to assist and inspire emerging filmmakers to complete their first feature films. Festival Of Unknown have assisted in completing a feature film titled 'PLOP'.
Remixed by:
Super Furry Animals - Rings Around The World DVD: 3 minutes, 24 seconds
Lesser - Rings Around The World DVD: 3 minutes, 23 seconds
Notes:
Juxtaposed means 'to put (things which are not similar) next to each other.' The song itself - which is partly about awkward housemates - continues this theme as the verses are clearly juxtaposed with the chorus (which also makes it sound more like a duet).