{"id":15636,"date":"2022-08-29T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T17:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/?p=15636"},"modified":"2022-08-30T11:08:32","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T16:08:32","slug":"a-literary-student-analyzes-slipknot-pt-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2022\/08\/29\/a-literary-student-analyzes-slipknot-pt-1\/","title":{"rendered":"A Literary Student Analyzes Slipknot Pt. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Hello everyone, and welcome back to my blog space! I haven&#8217;t seen you all in a few months, so I figured we should start this year with something to get us in the Locklyn&#8217;s Blogs mood, you know what I mean? So, without further ado, I will analyze and connect the dots between some of my favorite slipknot songs in the story&#8217;s chronological order! You&#8217;ll soon see why this story is one of my favorites.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Killpop<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">: 5th track from &#8220;The Gray Chapter&#8221;<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Killpop\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/6AAZigYqOch79lKcrSBOv0?si=45ef881ca4d9454b&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In an interview, Corey Taylor, the singer from slipknot, revealed that Killpop was about the music industry. While that explanation seems fitting, I decided to dig a little deeper and figure out what else this song could be connected to. So, in the song, the lyrics read:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&#8220;Maybe I should let her go<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">But only when she loves me<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">How can I just let her go?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Not until she loves me.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">This song is from the perspective of a man who eventually comes into contact with a woman whom he quickly becomes\u00a0<\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">obsessed<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> with, but the more he seems to get to know her, the more he realizes that she is also self-destructive. Though after being with him for a little while she begins trying to heal and get better so she can leave him, but he has other ideas. He becomes so obsessed with her that he cannot stand the idea of her leaving him. So he kills her using lyrics a bit too&#8230; aggressive for this blog.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Vermillion: Track 8 from &#8220;The Subliminal Verses&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<p><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Vermilion\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/0fX9KPa0i9RGDI59gI90i9?si=3d18e58fa9c04cc9&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&#8220;She is everything and more<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The solemn hypnotic<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">My Dahlia bathed in possession<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">She is home to me<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">I get nervous, perverse, when I see her, it&#8217;s worse.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">This says a lot about the man&#8217;s mentality after the murder. He is <em>still<\/em> obsessed with her, and from those lines, it feels a lot like the man is seeing visions of the woman. The Dahlia line could also reference the black dahlia case, which was a real-life case about a woman who was also murdered. The second half of that line about possession shows that by killing her, she will always be his. This song is also sang in a very aggressive manner, which gives off major frustration and rage vibes. He is so stressed about the visions and generally goes even more crazy over the fact that he killed her.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&#8220;She isn&#8217;t real<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">I can&#8217;t make her real<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">She isn&#8217;t real<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">I can&#8217;t make her real&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">These lines reoccur a few times throughout the song. This is the man angrily beating himself up over the murder and then the visions that stem from that. He knows the visions he sees aren&#8217;t her, and he is frustrated that he can&#8217;t bring her back. He can&#8217;t touch or kiss her again because she&#8217;s no longer real. He is beginning to feel the guilt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Thank you all for reading this month! I hope you enjoyed it and will come back to read the next part in the following weeks!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone, and welcome back to my blog space! I haven&#8217;t seen you all in a few months, so I figured we should start this year with something to get us in the Locklyn&#8217;s Blogs mood, you know what I mean? So, without further ado, I will analyze and connect the dots between some of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2022\/08\/29\/a-literary-student-analyzes-slipknot-pt-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Literary Student Analyzes Slipknot Pt. 1&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,5,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15636"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15840,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15636\/revisions\/15840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}