Once again we are going to… Read Full Bio ↴Once again we will discuss our sexual roles.
Once again we are going to figure out who is setting up the ideals.
Once again shall we talk about use, abuse and oppression.
Mommys pretty little girl in pink and the neighbour slut in black.
How early we set up the standards for how we are supposed to look and what it means to us. How we use our sexuality to be part, to be accepted.
The guys macho club of insecurity and stupidity. To make an object of the opposite sex. TV, commercials and movies.
Shut off communication and feelings, the outside is what counts.
While we worry about our looks and our pretty facade, we get laughed at by the fashion industry making millions and millions out of our vein and insecurity.
And when it's time to change we follow along in silence, afraid to be left behind, left naked and out of touch. "I want to fit in".
How we're being oppressed to personify ourselves with awkward bodies.
How to act based on how we look.
How our bodies and outsides divide us and how we judge solely on external features. Beauty should be about us, no matter what, no matter how and no matter...
And also remember, sometimes good guys don't wear white.
Dennis
beauty
Refused Lyrics
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Makes it easy to provide
A package to fulfill life
Your prefabricated beauty
Tan, blank skin
Your slim white torsos
Plastic smiles
Just the perfect fantasy
Cling on to illusions of industry dream
Your body, your beauty will fade
Fit the pieces, adjust the smiles
You will try, try, try, try
To fit in, to fit in for the perfect li(f)e
Sell me a pre-packaged body conception
Sell me a dream of love everlasting
Sell me perfection of satisfaction
Give me beauty or give me death
Your prefabricated beauty
Tan, blank skin
Your slim white torsos
Give me a body forever young
Give me a fulfillment of fitness
Give me the answers to my search
Give me beauty or give me death
Sell me a pre-packaged body conception
Sell me a dream of love everlasting
Sell me perfection of satisfaction
Grant me the with of my branded erection
The lyrics of Refused's song "Beauty" criticizes the obsession with the external appearance and the industry that satisfies the market's desire for a particular look. The song highlights the superficiality of the ideal body image that is pervasive in the media. The need to dream refers to the consumerist society that provides pre-packaged products to fulfill life. The marketing creates a fantasy that makes fitting in the perfect life, making people prefer the illusions rather than seek the truth.
The lyrics use the images of prefabricated beauty, tan and blank skin, slim white torsos, and plastic smiles, to depict the idealized image. The perfection is an unreachable goal for people and leads them to try and adjust themselves to fit in for the perfect lie. The song's chorus uses the repetition of "Sell me a pre-packaged body conception, Sell me a dream of love everlasting, Sell me perfection of satisfaction, Give me beauty or give me death" to criticize the industry's conditioning of people to need more, leading to a vicious cycle of consumerism.
The final lyrics of the song, "Give me beauty or give me death, Grant me the width of my branded erection," represent the absurdity of how individuals associate their identity with a pre-packaged image of beauty.
Overall, Refused's "Beauty" is a commentary on the commodification of external image and how industry shapes societal values and desires.
Line by Line Meaning
The need to dream
The desire to imagine and aspire
Makes it easy to provide
Creates a market for products that offer fulfillment
A package to fulfill life
A product that promises to meet all of life's needs and desires
Your prefabricated beauty
The standardized look of manufactured beauty
Tan, blank skin
Uniformity in skin tone, devoid of individuality
Your slim white torsos
The idealized body shape of the fashion industry
Plastic smiles
The superficial happiness that masks a deeper dissatisfaction
Just the perfect fantasy
The illusion of a flawless life
Cling on to illusions of industry dream
Holding onto false ideals perpetuated by consumer culture
Your body, your beauty will fade
The inevitability of aging and the temporary nature of physical beauty
Fit the pieces, adjust the smiles
The pressure to conform and modify oneself to meet society's standards
You will try, try, try, try
The endless pursuit of an unattainable ideal
To fit in, to fit in for the perfect li(f)e
The desperation to belong to the consumer culture's version of a happy, ideal existence
Sell me a pre-packaged body conception
The commodification of the human body
Sell me a dream of love everlasting
The cynical manipulation of our deepest desires
Sell me perfection of satisfaction
The promise that material goods will bring fulfilment
Give me beauty or give me death
The idea that the pursuit of external beauty is a matter of life or death
Give me a body forever young
The impossible dream of immortality and eternal youthfulness
Give me a fulfillment of fitness
The belief that physical perfection will bring happiness
Give me the answers to my search
The idea that solutions to our problems can be bought
Grant me the with of my branded erection
The desire to be possessed by the consumerism and advertising of corporations
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: JON ALBIN BRANNSTROM, DENNIS SVEN OLOF LYXZEN, DAVID SANDSTROM, KRISTOFER MARTIN STEEN
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